Archive for the ‘Coding’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
I did a small workshop on Qt today in my company, mainly to introduce the framework to my fellow developers. I think I did a good job, because I've seen the glow in their eyes while presenting the graphics view demos and the 2d paint engine amongst many other things.
Anyways, ...
Posted in Coding, Qt, Work | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
If you're a programmer and you're using a command line heavily, you've certainly come across a big nuisance in the usage of GNU's grep utility: The verbosity you need to exclude files from being searched, such as backup files (*~ or *#) or any kind of vcs inventory stupidity like ...
Posted in Coding, Free Software | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Its not that I'm a newbie, but sometimes I just feel that way. People start and talk in acronyms on IRC, and then it comes out that these acronyms stand for apparently famous people in the Free Software world I should know...
Lets start with an easy one: rms.
Yeah, that was ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
guitone 0.8 has been released today. Major improvements happened under the hood, the outstanding changes are:
guitone is now licensed under GNU GPL Version 3 or later. Please note that you're now only allowed to legally distribute binaries which you've built with Qt 4.3.4 or later, since earlier versions ...
Posted in Qt, guitone, monotone | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Starting with Qt 4.4 which was released a few days ago Qt now honors the
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
setting in the Info.plist file of the application bundle. This is particularily useful to create bundled application which should not pop up in the global dock or menu, f.e. daemons which run in the background or ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As promised a few days ago I'm writing a few words on the Monotone Summit which took place in Wuppertal from 28th of April to 4th of May 2008. I could only attend for five days because my train left already on early saturday morning, and I almost managed to ...
Posted in Life, guitone, monotone | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If you like to have a laugh today, read this. Found via Rob Weir's blog.
The Monotone Summit goes on and its quite fun to meet and work with all the people I just know from IRC or the mailing list. I mostly worked on automation stuff so far and improved ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
...and neither guitone nor monotone will be a part of it.
Google just put the list of mentoring organizations online and our direct competitors, namely git and Mercurial, of course got slots. On #gsoc on Freenode a Google employee told the crowd about a total of 505 applications this year, where ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I've just read on Slashdot that applications for this year's edition of Google's Summer Of Code start in early March. I'm thinking about pushing this a little more this year for the monotone project, since we kind of "missed" it last year (we sent in our application too late). And ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
guitone 0.7, my Qt-based monotone GUI, has just been released today. Most of the changes over the past 9+ months since the latest major version are under the hood, so there are only a few "new" things you can actually see (most notably the
file history browser, a new icon set ...
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