Scribus Team got two project slots for Google Summer of Code 2007. We had 7 applications and coming up with two selections really wasn’t easy. I’d like to thank all students who applied to the program whether selected or not. You guys make it fun. The selected projects are Imposition plugin, which is our number [...]

In parallel of hacking on Krita, for quiet some time, I have been working on three small applications, written in ruby and Qt4, and today I feel it was time for a joint release of the code, even if it's early alpha software.

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I have let my personal page dye when I started engineering school around five years ago, mostly by lack of motivation, and also because I wanted to rewrite the engine on a cleaner base, it use to be a php script that would read the content from text files and fill a template. The php wasn't really needed but at the time it felt like the easiest way to do. As I don't really need something dynamic, for the rewrite, I wanted to do the filling of the templates off-line, using a bunch of scripts.

You know how it is, idly chatting in #scribus, compiling a little, surfing here and there… and suddenly you want to know the distance from Montreal (site of LGM2 ) to Victoria (site of FOSS4G 2007 ). Nothing as easy as that, just ask Google Maps for directions and it’ll give you the km [...]

Image alignment has quiet a lot of applications, for instance for creating panoramas. Or when creating HDR images from a bracketing when images weren't perfectly taken from the same position. And I want something simple, one click and done. Hugin is a good tool for creating panorama, but you need a degree of computer science with a major in panorama creation to achieve a good enough result.

It's a feature I wanted to have for 1.6, but at the same time I started to work on 1.6 features, my PHD director ask me to work on a similar stuff, and working on the same thing during the day and during the evening is not something I am capable of doing. So I left some unfinished code sleeping for almost a year and decided to resurrect it last week. The two images below were automatically aligned:

It has been quiet a long time since my last blog entry, but it has also been a long time since I have make presentable progress in Krita's feature, not that I have been sleeping. But today, thanks to the recent move of the KPlot widget in kdelibs (thanks to Jason and Pino for the hard work on it), I have made good progress on a plugin for creating HDR images (High Dynamic Range) from a set of pictures taken with bracketing. For some better examples of HDR images have a look to the flickr hdr group.

Here is my chance as the primary program administrator to break out the good news. As of today we are in the GSoC 2007 program. Prospective student GSoC developers are encouraged to check out our ideas page and start working on their GSoC plan. See End-to-end Publishing Solution plan for a first example. Of course, [...]

Last year I was fortunate enough to be one of the coders COSS hired to code for an open source project. My project of choice was Scribus. Now it’s your turn. COSS is extending the deadline for Kesäkoodi 2007 applications. So if you think you can fill in their requirements submit your application to COSS. [...]

As I have been asked on IRC about what I use for creating video of Krita in some of my blog entry, and that I feel that more people are interested by the answer, lets blog about it !

So I use xvidcap. Before that, well, if I really had to produce a video, I would record my screen with my digital camera...

While we recently released 1.3.3.7 into the wild, one of the tools we used for the first time is the new OpenSuse Build Server. So why the rant ?In a word it is terrific. It still is in “beta” phase and there are features to be added. However, it is a major helper for [...]

Last week I was working in Paris, and only had a borrowed laptop on which I didn't feel like to go through the pain of setting up a KDE4 development environment. So instead of writing C++ code, I decided to improve my Ruby skill and still be able to hack on something of a certain use for Krita.

While it has been a while since I have started using Ruby, I never really wrote more than a few lines each times. But now, that at work, I finally was able to drop TCL for Ruby, I have made a lot of progress during the last few weeks. But lets go back to a subject related to krita.