The thoughts and opinions of an open source & mobile gadget enthusiast who ran away from Australia and is now surviving in the middle of nowhere in Norway while learning how to love snow, ice, and all things Scandinavian.
In my year of absense from writing anything here at all, it wasn’t necessarily only because the year was awful - although it kind of was , not just for the world at large, but also for more personal reasons – a subject for another post, or perhaps not. Regardless, when I did eventually turn my attention back here, I managed to come back to find that Jekyll could no longer generate the same blog I…
I didn’t write anything about that year here so far. Let’s just say I figure that enough already has been said about that one. Here’s to 2017. ∞ Permalink
Qt, as a framework, makes extensive use of touch - particularly on mobile and embedded devices. Unfortunately, Qt isn’t readily able to magically make touch input appear on hardware that doesn’t support it, which can make exact testing of touch-related code difficult in typical developer environments – not a very desirable situation for a cross-platform development framework. Thankfully, someone…
I’ve been working on moving away from Google for a while now. I have a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that I don’t like the feel of being a product rather than a consumer. I want to be in control of my own data, and how it is used and disseminated. With Google in control of it, I never really felt I had that, and it was only getting worse with time. Anyway, 2015 has been a good year for…
It’s been a good run, but when you read this, it won’t be hosted by blogger anymore. I’ve had hideous experiences with blogger being full of bugs in the past, and none of these issues ever seem to get any better. That, in conjunction with my not being happy with other people being in full control over my data. So I figure that it’s time for a change. Getting the text of my posts into Jekyll was…
Yesterday, I read the news about GitLab acquiring Gitorious to shut it down gracefully (since Gitorious was apparently no longer profitable), and honestly, I'm not at all surprised. When Gitorious first opened up, I jumped on it with open arms and pushed up quite a bit of stuff there. I migrated some of the larger group projects I worked on, such as InspIRCd there, contributed to others, and made…
Or, "why I won't be buying it again". Some of you might have heard of Chocolat. Some of you might not have, so here's a quick summary. It describes itself as a "Native text editor for Mac". I found Chocolat earlier this year, and kind of liked it. It had pretty good JavaScript support, and as I write a reasonable amount of JavaScript on random projects usually involving QML , I found it worthwhile…
Since nobody else has done the honors yet, I'm happy to announce that - as decided at the Qt Contributors Summit this year - support for running applications under a Wayland compositor will be seeing its initial release with Qt 5.4. That is, the QtWayland repository is finally going to stop sitting in the corner, sulking. :) There's a few "buts", though. Firstly, it should be noted that support…
When software goes slow, generally, the first reaction is to profile. This might be done through system tools (like Instruments on OS X, perf/valgrind/etc on Linux, VTune, etc). This is fine and good, but just because you have the output of a tool does not necessarily correlate to understanding what is going on. This might seem like an obvious distinction, but all too often, efforts at improving…
I've had a long, quiet time on this blog over the past few years while I've been frantically helping Jolla to launch their self-named product: the Jolla . I've enjoyed (almost) every day I've been there: they really are a great bunch of people and the work has been plentiful and challenging. But as the saying goes, "this too shall pass". Nothing lasts forever, and it's time for a change: after…