Open Warrior

I just wrote a KDE service menu wrapper around the Dropbox python CLI. For more information please go here.

On another note, if you haven’t tried Dropbox I advise that you give it a go by clicking here

Aaron Siego, president of KDE e.V recently made a post titled “Getting into KDE hacking” which reminded me of the reason I started this blog in the first place – to detail my journey into the world of KDE hacking.

Truth is though, that I haven’t posted anything related to KDE hacking since I started this blog, mainly because I haven’t had the time to do any of the great free software things I plan to do. Anyway, Aaron highlight 6 steps to getting involved in KDE hacking, and so far I’ve completed the first one which is learning Qt4. So not all is lost, I am one step closer to developing free software for the desktop environment which I have grown to love over the years (more on that another time).

A couple of months ago I had the idea to start up a site, openwarriors.org, which I would use to highlight “individuals committed to open source.” So I went ahead and registered the domain, uploaded a placeholder index page (which is still there) and waited for the right time to get started on the project.

Now that I’m on a seven week holiday I have the time to get started on my openwarriors.org project. However last night I started doubting the project, the reason being that if it becomes successful I won’t be able to sustain it, one because of the bandwidth costs and two because of the time that I’d need to put into it.

Since I’ve really been getting into open source hacking in recent times I decided to make my ventures into it’s world the focus of openwarriors.org and thus (for now) scrapping the original idea. So, I’ve started this blog on iblog.co.za and named it openwarriors.org. In this blog I will detail my experiences with open source hacking, primarily focusing on KDE and specifically KDE4. And thus I announce my holiday project: in order to get a good feeling for Qt and KDE4 development I’m going to develop a KDE4 Financial Calculator. For this project I’ll detail my setting up of KDE4 for development, the resources I use to learn how to create KDE4 applications and any other interesting things I might run into while experimenting.

However KDE won’t be the only focus of this blog, anything which I find interesting relating to open source software will be posted here, so keep a look out…