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Tuesday and wednesday were basically spent doing API review and refactoring the public API to address the issues found. It’s great to get input from people experts in the field… After all their work on Qt proves they have a lot of expertise in making APIs which rock.

That’s why Solid is getting get a big facelift during this week. I’m cleaning it up at a lot of places, and had to refactor the internal API a bit. Hopefully now the most intrusive changes for the hardware discovery part are done. It’s kind of frustrating because I’d basically like to see this week last for a month. I opened the eyes in quite some shortcomings, and we probably won’t have the time to make a second round of API reviews.

So… Let’s get the most of this week! Back on furious hacking!

As usual started with a very early flight. I had to woke up at 4:30 this morning to get it… No need to say I’m pretty tired while writing this. Of course I’m also pretty excited, which explains that despite being exhausted I’m hacking at… the Trolltech offices in Oslo. Today being the first day of a 5 days long sprint about Phonon and Solid.

It’s always nice to meet old friends and new faces. The Trolltech guys form a very friendly group.

Today, we basically travelled, setup our small network for the sprint and had discussions about investigations and work for this week. It already looks like it can become a highly productive week. After this nice kick-off we gathered in a very nice restaurant in Oslo with a few trolls. The food was just wonderful, and it was very cheap (in particular compared to Oslo standards).

This night we finished the work on factoring XMLGUI out of KMainWindow with Simon. It’s now in trunk, so now we can concentrate on the main purpose of this sprint…

Thanks a lot to the Trolltech people to allow this sprint to take place.

Hello from Trysil, Norway!

I finally arrived in Norway. No real event disturbed the trip, which is always good even if a bit boring. I met for the first time Alexander Neundorf and Tobias Koenig in Oslo airport. Nice to meet you guys.

We found our way to the bus. While we were waiting for it Allan Sandfeld arrived too… he was supposed to take the next bus, but since it would have required him to wait for two hours he took the same than us. Our bus was really full of people and we had the nice surprise to find Zack Rusin and Marius Monsen in it.

After a three hours trip by bus, we reached the cabin… It’s… well… GREAT(tm). A picture says it all, here is the view we have outside:

And inside it’s cosy. Since we have a TV, a few hackers here watched a soccer world cup match:

I’m really glad to be here, the next coming week will surely be terrific. All the conditions are met to make us very productive!