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How Kate got X-rated
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(Ok, not really.)
Kate’s maintainer, Christoph Cullmann, shared a funny story over a beer one of the first days here at GCDS.
In ye olden days, what is now Kate and Kwrite was one application called “KWrite – KDE’s Advanced Text Editor”. However, the author of Kwrite mysteriously disappeared. Christoph forked Kwrite and continued working on it and after some time it greatly surpassed Kwrite’s capabilities and was becoming more of a power tool. A name change was long overdue.
Being a good German, Christoph decided to name it after the philosopher Immanuel Kant, so in KDE 2.1 the editor “Kant” was born.
For some strange reason, probably easier to understand for native English speakers, it was renamed to “Kate” in KDE 2.2. And thus what still is KDE’s Advanced Text Editor was born.
Google Calendar Plasmoid, Take Two
7After the positive feedback on my quick 27 line python hack, I decided to make a slightly improved version. This fixes the two major problems with the old one: you can now use your Google Apps for your Domain email and you can use kwallet to remember your login.
It’s not a simple, 27 line python script any more, but now it’s much more usable. (unless there are some stupid bugs I have overlooked. 
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As suggested I uploaded it to KDE Look: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=104182, so you can install it from the “Add widgets…” dialogue or download it and install it with plasmapkg -i gcal-1.1.plasmoid.
Google Calendar Plasmoid
17Update: A new, better version can be found here:
http://hamberg.no/erlend/2009/05/07/google-calendar-plasmoid-take-two/
In case anyone is interested:
I made a simple Plasmoid for viewing coming events from Google Calendar. It’s simply a webview showing the iPhone version of Google Calendar. It’s written in Python and took 10 minutes to write (27 lines of code) by following the excellent tutorial on techbase.
You can download it here: http://hamberg.no/erlend/files/gcal.zip. If you improve it or make another Google Calendar plasmoid: let me know!
Oh, btw. To install it run plasmapkg -i gcal.zip.
P.S: openSuse users: I had to install python-dev to actually run a python plasmoid. Don’t know why.
Sjekkliste for hvordan skrive brev/epost på engelsk
0Da jeg jobbet med ISFiT skrev jeg ganske ofte eposter på engelsk og da var English Matters‘ guide til hvordan en skal skrive eposter uunnværlig. Siden er laget av Stewart Clark på NTNU.
Nå og da slår jeg fortsatt opp for å se hvordan jeg skal titulere folk, og hvordan den tilsvarende avslutningen er. Jeg fant derfor ut at jeg skulle skrive ut denne og henge den ved pulten min, men det viste seg at den ikke var helt optimal med tanke på utskrift. Jeg har derfor laget en kompakt versjon på to sider som passer perfekt som et «jukseark».
Side én er en sjekkliste over ti punkter med generelle tips og side to er tabeller over hvordan en tiltaler alt fra forretningsforbindelser til venner. Teksten er noe kuttet enkelte steder i forhold til nettsiden for å få den til å passe på to sider.
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