this week's covetted "Most Appreciated (by me) Developer" award...

... goes to Matt Rogers for his work on kopete.

here's the scenario ... my two big problems with kopete this week are: double clicking not working in the contact list, Ctrl-Enter still being the default for sending a message.

i wander into #kopete at two different points in the day to find out that Matt had backported the fix for the first problem to the 3.3 branch, even, and had also changed the default for sent to just Enter. and backported that too.

damn.

ok, so maybe it isn't the biggest, most amazing hack in the world this week. but finding out my two personal pet peeves with an app i use every day had disappeared sure put a glow in my heart.

here's to you Matt! i owe you a beer next time we're in the same city. or if you're ever in some other city and want a beer i'll get someone who said they'd buy me one sometime for some random reason to buy you one instead. hm. finally some way to cash in on all those beer promises.

maybe i should start asking for official donations via email, or a website. and then i could use them as "thank-you" currency.

"Dear ,

The offer to purchase of you pledged to me on has hereby been transferred to who will be in your area on or about the to redeem said offer.

Thank you, luv and hugs,

Aaron J. Seigo"