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In a project I am using formtastic as the formbuilder and I needed to show and save the country in some models. As suggested on the formtastic page I used the iso-3166-country-select plugin as a quick solution. The country names in this plugin are directly in code and not localizable, so that quite soon the question was asked why the entries are in English. Another requirement was to display the country codes instead of the full country name.
The LocalizedCountrySelect plugin provides localized country names which can be downloaded for a lot of languages.
Unfortunately the functions have “localized_” prepended. Formtastic expects the iso-3166-country-select function names without “localized_” so I forked the project, changed the function names and also added an option to show the country codes.

I am currently porting KTagebuch to KDE4. Saving, loading and browsing is already working.
For people who already want to try this version I created a Ubuntu package for KTagebuch-0.80. Please create a backup of your KTagebuch database which you can find in “~/.kde/share/apps/ktagebuch/”, because this version has not been tested much.
I set up a github repository for the source code.

This is a slightly improved version. The most visible improvement is the marking of the entries in the calendar.

RBDiary – 1.0 another attempt at at diary application. This time I used Ruby and plain QT which means it is cross platform and works on all three OSs. I wrote it in a few hours and it already does everything I need. With KTagebuch it was completely different. I spent many hours just struggling with the automake build tool.

This version contains few small fixes.

Another user of AnimalTracker appeared which motivated me to work on it again. I mainly fixed some bugs. The distribution calculation crashes for example if no range is defined. So after four years there is AnimalTracker 0.72.

KTagebuch can be installed from a Kubuntu Breezy Repository. Click here for instructions to add the repository.

I created a KTagebuch package for Kubuntu and also added a funtion to restore the window size and location.

KTagebuch is available from Linspire’s CNR since Saturday.

I fixed some serious bugs in the SX52 command interpreter and released version 0.05 of the SX emulator.
The XGS emulator is making progress. The screenshot shows the colour bar demo (in B/W). The Starfield demo is almost working.