Flavio Castelli

As I said in this previous post, Strigi’s Xesam support was half-done since XesamUserSearchLanguage wasn’t yet handled. Well, this is no longer true…
In these weeks I’ve been working on XesamUserSearchLanguage support. Ehm… to be honest, I’ve been fighting with Bison.

But in the end I tamed the beast and now Xesam support in Strigi is full.
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Yesterday morning I was quite arrived at work when Laura (my gf) called me. Something went wrong in our bathroom and water was everywhere. She closed the main water tap and I took the first train for home (yes, since I’m an outlier I take the train two times per day).
Once arrived at home I performed some hacking on the guilty washing machine, checked some pipes and than took the next train for office.

In the end yesterday I spent approximately four hours on the train. During this elapse of time I started the Xesam User Language parser
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Last day just after I hit the “submit” button a doubt came into my mind: “did I say everything ?”
Well, the answer is “No!”
In fact I forgot to tell you one of the most important things: how to have some fun with Strigi and Xesam!
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Since last Thursday Strigi gained XesamQueryLanguage support. This means that now is possible to process queries formulated using this syntax.

But why is this important?
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Some days ago I committed lots of changes regarding inotify support. Goodies and improvements have been introduced…
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I have to admit that lately I have a really bad habit: I forget to commit my changes to Strigi.
In this way I end-up performing multiple commits with different changes inside: from stupid to interesting one.
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An overview of desktop searching under linux.
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A KDE 4 small overview
This speech illustrates some of the major KDE4 features.

Slides are shorts since has been made for a “wiki-night”

KDE4 preview

I’m really honored to report that dot.kde.org has published the english translation of my interview for kde-it.
You can find it here.

I’m really honored to report that KDE-Italy site published an interview about me.
You can find it here.

Many thanks to Giovanni Venturi, webmaster and maintainer of kde-it.org!