Today I finished work on version beta7 of the LocalTODOScreenlet. It features a complete new database backend that allows simple synchronization.
Synchronization can be configured via FTP.

The user interface was also cleaned up. Instead of displaying a speech bubble that show the comment on hovering, comment and due date are now shown when the pointer hovers a task's title.
Tasks are now colored if they are overdue, due today or due tomorrow.

The LocalTODOScreenlet is available for download at GitHub: http://github.com/SvenFestersen/LocalTODOScreenlet/downloads

Please click read more to see the release notes.  read more »

I decided to fork John Dickinson's git repo to set up my own which I can use for experimental implementations.
The first thing I'm working on is a complete rewrite of the LineChart widget, because the old implementation did not follow the rules of the other chart widgets.  read more »

As you may have notice I finished the (long) work on my first custom Drupal theme today.
If you find errors or have suggestions, feel free to leave your comment.

PictureView is a PyGTK widget that can be used to build an application
that shows pictures, e.g. a photo browser.

See the PictureView page for details.

The pygtkChart homepage moved. Its new location is at GitHub: http://notmyname.github.com/pygtkChart/.

A new version of the pygtkChart widget collection is out! Since the alpha realease many new features have been added. The most important are:

• gobject events and properties
• new styling possibilities for line chart graphs
• clickable bar chart and pie chart areas

You can download the tarball from GitHub.

Note: the pygtkChart website will move to a GitHub page in the next days.

The pygtkChart widget project has come to life again! After John Dickinson joined the project and created a bar chart extension I decided to work on the widget collection again. There are some new features coming soon: event handling, clickable charts and more possibilities to configure charts.

For the latest version clone from the git repository John created: git://github.com/notmyname/pygtkChart.git.

Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Researchs new "computational knowledge engine" is online since about two days.
If You see the homepage, you might think this is just another search engine competing Google. But it's not a web search engine. If you enter your question, you won't get a list of links, you will get an answer.  read more »

I've been using the Evolution e-mail client for some time now. Although I have SpamAssassin installed and Evolution was configured to use it, junk mails were not filtered. Additionally SpamAssassin made Evolution run really slow. This is a known bug to the Evolution developers.
On their launchad bug reporting page I found the solution: Bogofilter.  read more »