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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. ...

I follow the Qt/S60 Mailing list, that is turning out to be a very interesting and active ML, and the Qt Labs blog, always full of very good code, written directly by the guys of Qt Software. I thought could be nice to start to post some of the stuff I’m learning. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 #include <eikenv.h> #include <eikappui.h> #include <aknenv.h> #include <aknappui.h> // ... // lock orientation CAknAppUi* appUi = static_cast<caknappui *>( CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi() ); if ( appUi ) //< Actually, this will always pass. It's a "static_cast" after all... { appUi->SetOrientationL( CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait ); } // ... Today's source is: [Nokia Forum](http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164499).</caknappui></aknappui></aknenv></eikappui></eikenv>

For the once of you that tried “home made ways” to update their ADP1, like my previously published how-to, this news can be interesting. Google and HTC finally managed to push-out an official page on the HTC site, to explain step-by-step how to update firmware and baseband of the device. I just did it, having a very pleasant and straightforward experience. The phone seems to be way more stable, bug-free and the battery lasts for more then 50 seconds ;) ...

Fancy $PS1 setting The code to make the Bash prompt looks like mine is (~/.bashrc): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 case $TERM in xterm*|rxvt*) TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]' ;; *) TITLEBAR="" ;; esac; PS1="${TITLEBAR}\n\[\033[0;0m\][\033[0;32m\]time: \ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\t\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\ [\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]host: \[\033[0m\]\ \[\033[1;31m\]\h\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\ [\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]user: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\u\ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-[\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]bash: \ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\v\[\033[0;0m\]]\n\ \[\033[0;0m\][\[\033[0;32m\]cwd: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\w\ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]# " Thanks to Bash Prompt HOWTO.

+ + vacuum BRRRRRUUUUUUUUUMMMMM! Anyone that use Mail.app (the “official” mail client on [en:Mac OS X]) knows that the greater mailboxes become, the slower Mail.app goes. I don’t know how many email I have, but the oldest is from the 2002 (I have cutted older because they became useless). Today, I found an interesting link on TUAW: A faster way to speed up Mail.app on Hawk Wings. Starting from that tips, I have expanded it to vacuum every table in the SQLite3 database used from Mail.app to index our emails. Continue to see the mini-howto. ...

Are you curious about “how to make icons for Mac”? I’m. And TUAW have something for someone interested in the same thing. A few weeks ago, Matthew Cone showed us how Macinstruct’s beautiful icons, courtesy of the talented Gary Gehiere, came to be (http://www.macinstruct.com/node/40). In that article, you were shown the beginning stages of icon design – how the meaning of an idea is distilled down to a few carefully placed pixels. The end result, of course, is seen here - on Macinstruct - in the icons scattered throughout the website. ...

And… seems to be a nice meeting. ;) After a lot of development, the comunity surrounding the project realeases last stable version 1.2.3.1 of Mono. What about [en:Mac_OS_X|Mac OS X]? Here is a dedicated page on the official wiki of Mono. And, in particular, I’m happy to highlight a tutorial/howto about XCode and Mono integration: CSharpPlugin. I know that [en:Mono_(software)|Mono] is the open-source implementation of [en:.NET_Framework|.Net] (started by [en:Novell]), and that I hate [en:Microsoft|M$], but… I can’t hate a framework. It’s like to hate the [en:Plutonium] because we make the [en:Atomic_Bomb] with it! ;) ...

TUAW today highlights this new Tutorial about Cocoa: Learn Cocoa (part II). Some people on TUAW say that: … there wasn’t actually any coding involved… But it was about the first part, that is “introductive”. In this second part seems that things are changing. I haven’t readed yet to give a valutation; but I’ll do… I promise. Stay tuned.

Il mio amico Nemo, che ha appena finito il suo ultimo esame, [en:Information_theory|Teoria dell’Informazione], ne ha resi disponibili gli appunti da lui stesi: un PDF che, per il fatto che è scritto in [en:LyX], è anche piacevole alla lettura, oltre che importante per l’argomento trattato. Un grazie da tutti gli studenti (ma non solo) credo gli sia dovuto ;) .

Mark Spencer, developer of many Open Source projects like Gaim and, obviously, Asterisk, and founder of Digium, shows us how much simple is to start a PBX with AsteriskNOW!. I spoke about AsteriskNOW here, at the time of its presentation. Source, OSSBlog.