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I’m contributing some code and GCC-CPU-time to PhantomJS. It’s a brilliant idea and I hope it will grow, maybe with some help from me as well. I have recently spent some time working out how to go from a “compiled from source” version, to generate a shippable executable. For Mac, in my case. a ‘cute’ bundle I’ll explain how to bundle up your Qt based application, so that you can ship it. PhantomJS will be my reference example. ...

Think about it. We are still paying the consequences of Windows. The User Interaction and User Experience expected by most of the normal people are widely based upon Microsoft Window’s own (ehm…) patterns. The bad design and usability choices that are at the very base of that software (from version 1 up to latest 7), shaped how contemporary users expect to interact with their personal computer. How they should do things. What are the predictable consequences of their actions. ...

Last Sunday my girlfriend, my friend @lucabox and I decided have a go at London’s Barclays Cycle Hire. Wanting to enjoy the weather in Hyde Park, we agreed at meeting there: Luca cycled from Tate Modern, we took our bike at Hyde Park’s Queen’s Gate. Boris and ‘it’s’ bikes The day was great, and the good weather helped. The experience with those bikes was… follow me. The Good Cheap to start The price scheme is simple if you are not a member: we paid just £1.00 to access. The first 30 minutes are free, than £1 for the first hour, £4 for 1.5 hours and so growing. Details here. ...

This article was originally written on another blog. That blog was never officially published, and it will probably never be. It was written on the 3rd of June 2010, but is still “somewhat important” and relevant. Since the post was published, Richard Moore <rich @linux…fpb.site> has done a commit in the Qt examples directory that resamples very closely my code below. So, I decided to repost it here. Qt and Proxy Configuration What’s great of Qt, is that it comes with a very rich set of libraries to cover almost everything you can think of. As a Qt developer, you should always double check the Documentation first, to see if “it’s already there”, before jumping into coding. It saves tons of time. ...

Japan is facing one of the worst crisis since WW2: An earthquake, a subsequent Tsunami and now, worsts of all, a nuclear power crisis. Thousands died, and millions are now in huge danger. Japan is indeed facing a tragedy. The earthquake was not just a strong one: was the 6th in the list of most powerful earthquakes ever registered (i.e. since ~1900) - an incredible 8.9 Richter. And, bear in mind, the Richter Magnitude Scale is logarithmic. ...

Hi. I don’t know if you can notice it, but I just did few updates to the CSS of this Blog. Effects of sleep deprivation (no, I’m not THAT tired) If you are one of the few a followers of my Bloggart fork, you know what’s going on: Page support, changes to the “Squared” theme and more. I’m not yet where I want to be, but it’s getting closer. While I add small features to Bloggart, I learn its intricacies, and discover some small/medium latent bugs. Stuff that “didn’t happen because scenario x was never considered”: this is giving me some possibilities to fix and improve. ...

I’m impressed. Today a lot of important things just happened, and I think it’s work putting them down. Tahrir Square pushes Hosni Mubarak down After what he said yesterday night, I was not expecting this to happen so soon. Mubarak stepped down! In addition of being a great news for all my friends that are directly or indirectly related to Egypt, this is an INCREDIBLE news for something I tagged as “lost”: hope. ...

This video is great! Yes, quality wise is quite poor, it looks like the first movies from Pixar. But it’s quite amusing and “teasing”. Take a second to watch it: Definitely, Motorola is looking better and better at every new product (even though their market share is still ridiculously small). This video, with the whole set of products presented at CES 2011, like Atrix 4G and Xoom, is sign that they are ready to fight and fight hard. ...

Something very peculiar is currently going on behind the scene of this blog. My fork of bloggart has been taken and adapted to make a new website dedicated to a TV show, Skins. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The work has been commissioned by a not well specified “Skins Writer” entity to ScholisTech. I don’t like it So far, so good. It feels good to know that someone appreciates your work, isn’t it? ...

Dear Bloggart belovers (like there were any out there…), this is a quick update on what’s happening with my Bloggart fork. Yes, fork - this is now the correct way to calling it. Initially I was just touching and modelling the software to my personal needs. Now I’m really going in my own direction. Anyway, let’s stay focused. I was here to tell you about a couple of new things that are coming to Bloggart. ...