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KDE Developer's Corner: Common Programming Mistakes

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I'm very happy to announce a new document for inspiring KDE hackers, entitled "Common Programming Mistakes". The document aims to combine the experience of many of the top KDE developers about the Qt and KDE frameworks dos and don'ts. The way they were usually passed on to the next generation was by letting the youngsters make the mistakes and then yell at them in public. We will go over things, which are not necessarily bugs, but which make the code either slower or less readable.


IBM developerWorks: Connect KDE applications using DCOP

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Martyn Honeyford from IBM's UK Labs introduces KDE's desktop communication protocol (DCOP) on the IBM developerWorks site. He describes how to utilize it with the graphical kdcop and the command line dcop utilities with several examples such as instantly messaging a contact in Kopete when he comes online and also how to create a simple DCOP-aware application.


New Howto on Developing a Plugin Structure for an Application

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I needed to learn how to develop a plugin structure for my baby KimDaba, and what better way is there to learn, than to write a howto about it? So I did, and with the help from the real experts (Simon Hausmann, David Faure, g++, et al), I'm pretty convinced this will be of value to anyone who either wants to add a plugin structure to an application, or who wants to write a plugin.