Flavio Castelli

Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has been great and really productive. I had the pleasure to meet people interested in QJson, chat with them but also hack with them.

In fact we hacked a lot, doing lots of changes to QJson:

• the API has been cleaned, now it can be considered stable
• unicode support has been completely rewritten
• it’s now possible to convert QVariant objects into JSON ones

So it’s with a great pleasure that I announce the release of QJson 0.6.0.

Beware, since the API has been changed your application will probably break. I’m really sorry about that, but I guarantee it won’t happen in the future (as I said both API and ABI interfaces can now be considered stable).

QJson web site has been updated, reflecting all the changes made to the library.
openSUSE packages has been moved from my home repo to KDE:Qt one.

One last note, if you have problems with QJson please contact me using the qjson-devel mailing list. You can subscribe here.

During the last years of university I spent some time wondering about my future job. After the degree I received  lot of offers (fortunately also good ones), but none of them matched with my “dream job” . There was always something missing/different.
I was just trying to convince myself that the “perfect job” can exist only in our dreams when my feed reader pointed me here.

After reading these lines:

” We are exploring new technologies, creating prototypes of future systems, and trying to find and shape some of the features that will be part of upcoming SUSE products and the ecosystem around that. It’s a fascinating job, challenging, fun, and always exciting. For somebody like me who loves to create new things and enjoys working with an awesome team of innovative people this is a dream job.”

I realized the description matched with all my wishes!

I immediately applied for the position and now, after more than a month, I’m looking at a signed proposal.

I’ve waited a long time before spreading my joy to the rest of the world… but now I just want to say that starting from 1st August I’ll be part of Suse’s Incubation team!

I’m really happy, excited and honoured for this awesome opportunity.

I wish you’ll be able to realize your dreams too!

Just a funny note… While Cornelius was writing about the job offer on his blog, I was having a dinner with another Novell employee: Massimiliano Mantione. I was listening to his personal story, wishing to find a dream job like his one. I have to admit I was a bit jealous

Last week two new entries entered my life.A shiny brand-new Macbook pro arrived on Thursday. I’ve always dreamed of one of this wonderful laptops (I’ve been an happy iBook user for a long time). Two weeks ago I finally surrendered (I’ve always been scared of the high price) and I’ve ordered this new toy. Now, after one week of usage I’m really happy about it.

Currently I’m using Linux as primary Os, but I’ll give a try also to KDE4 on Mac

The other new entry is Baguette, a three-months old dachshund. She’s really lovely, running around the house eating random things like shoes (I think it’s a must for all pets) and usb cables (she’s already a geek-dog).

I think I’ll have to keep an eye on Baguette, otherwise I’ll find another bite on my Macbook pro apple

Last Saturday Linux day 2007 took place.

Linux Day is an Italian manifestation that promotes Linux and FOSS.
During this day different organizations (mostly Linux User Groups) arrange events with speeches, installation parties and more.

Since lot of people requested it, I gave a speech about KDE 4 during the Linux day organized by my LUG (BGLug).

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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 friday evening I made a party in my new house. We celebrated my birthday and also the “opening” of the new house.

You can find some photos here.

Many thanks to Roberto for the photos (made with his mobile phone!).

In my last message I promised to write some more contents on this site, in order to keep it more updated.
As usual I disappointed this promise
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An overview of desktop searching under linux.
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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!