kde · linux –
I just finished writing a new Python tutorial on KDE’s Techbase. This one deals with writing DataEngines in Python (a complement to Simon Edwards’s own Using DataEngines).
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linux –
As Simon Edwards already noted, thanks to me and him (mostly him, I have to say) starting to work on Plasma tutorials at the same time, now KDE’s Techbase has a nice set of Python Plasma tutorials. They cover creation of applets and connection to DataEngines (see the Plasma page on Techbase for more information). I plan on starting a tutorial on writing Plasma DataEngines on Thursday, if time permits.
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kde · linux –
It turned out I forgot to add the last screencast produced by the students of Kourse 2, so I’ll fix my mistake right now. Here’s Panel settings, by Kourse student TeaAge:
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general –
As you have noticed, I have upgraded FailWordpress to version 2.7, getting also a new theme in the process. The header image is temporary, until I or someone else gets it fixed. The gallery has also changed: I ditched WPG2 and Gallery 2 because they kept on breaking every time I upgraded Wordpress (of course it’s probably Wordpress’s API and schema instability to blame).
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kde · linux –
Students from Kourse 2 fengshaun and Primoz have prepared two nice screencasts, dealing with the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) and desktop settings respectively. Without further ado, here they are:
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science –
Finally I can lift the curtain of silence and tell the reason why I’ve been very busy before Christmas: it all lies in the publication of a paper, “Using Pathway Signatures as Means of Identifying Similarities among Microarray Experiments”, which is finally out on this week’s issue of PLoS ONE. It’s different from the previous paper I mentioned (which was not my first publication, either), for two main reasons:
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