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People Behind KDE: Hamish Rodda

Posted by Tijmen Baarda on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @16:50
from the making-hacker-lives-easier dept.
Tonight in the People Behind KDE series of interviews we feature an Australian core hacker. He is very motivated in programming but his social life is as important. He focuses mainly on programming tools but works for core parts like kdeui too. We are talking about KDE star Hamish Rodda.

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Thanks!
by Anon on Wednesday 25/Oct/2006, @17:24

Good read!

I'd like to thank Hamish for his work on KDevelop, Kate and KDE in general!

There's just one thing I don't understand: how does a medical doctor have enough time to hack this much on KDE, much less learn how to write such fantastic code?

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Re: Thanks!
by djouallah mimoune on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @01:34

27 years, doctor, and all that hack on KDE.

I must admit, programmers are not "normal" people, and me moaning in work about lack of time.

cheers
mimoune

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Re: Thanks!
by fred on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @05:55

Agree, he must be a superior doctor and developer! I can't imagine how he could divide his time as a doctor and as a programmer...

thanks Hamish for your great works!

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Re: Thanks!
by Boemer... on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @08:09

Well still up for adoption, saves a lot of time.....

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First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by djouallah mimoune on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @07:32

don't flame me ! I really don't understand it

what do you mean by "up for adoption", of course married has an universal meaning; partner is a kind of a mariage without a formal commitement; but for up ado I don't get it

regards
mimoune

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Re: First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by Jonathan Brugge on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @07:57

'Up for adoption' means that someone does not have a partner at all (be it formal or not). In that case, he/she can be 'adopted' by someone in the same situation :).

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Re: First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by djouallah mimoune on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @09:21

ah ok thanks

now I understand why he is so active;)anyway we really need people like him, as I read it not sure the next kubuntu will include kde4 - after 6 months-

mimoune

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Re: First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @09:43

> now I understand why he is so active ;)

So we need to make sure that he's not adopted, right? After all, KDevelop 4 ought to be released in time... :-P

Cheerio, Hamish! Glad you're there, your code is nothing but exceptional. i hope you can make it to next year's aKademy :-?

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Re: First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by Hamish Rodda on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @22:53

Thanks for everyone's kind words... although the interview is a bit out of date, I have a partner now, but the hacking should continue... :)

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Re: First things first. Married, partner or up for ado
by Kevin Krammer on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @08:29

Now that's a head line: "do a people behind KDE interview, get adopted!" :)

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Origin of Name?
by AC on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @09:56

I'm curious about your name "Hamish Rodda". Doesn't sound like a typical Aussie name (I could be wrong), so what's the story behind the name? :-)

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Re: Origin of Name?
by Hamish Rodda on Friday 03/Nov/2006, @03:23

The name is fairly unique but not too unusual... Hamish is Scottish (parents just liked it) and Rodda is an English surname originally.

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Well deserved!
by gallium on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @17:47

Hamish,

Nice to see you're getting the recognition your deserve mate! I've been out of the loop for quite some time and something tells me I ought to fix that... reading your interview showed me I've got my priorities all wrong. ;)

Maybe, just maybe I'll commit a few gems for this Christmas...

- K

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