The developer's guide to new exciting web technologies
Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist for Opera, looks at some nifty new browser technologies that are not part of HTML5, including WebGL and SVG
The developer's guide to new exciting web technologies
Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist for Opera, looks at some nifty new browser technologies that are not part of HTML5, including WebGL and SVG
Harmattan version numbering explained
There has been numerous questions and some misunderstanding on Harmattan version numbering so we thought it would be the right time to share some light in to the topic. It should be interesting and good to know information for developers.
QFileSystemWatcher internals in Qt 5
Just thought I’d share some details on some of the recent changes I’ve pushed to Qt 5 a few weeks ago. (Yes, this post is rather overdue, I’ve been a bit slack with writing it). If you were in Tampere when I gave a short, completely underprepared Q&A on Qt 5 a few days ago, this won’t be news to you, but I will go into a bit more detail
Samsung's Bada will merge with Tizen. Just WTF is going on here?
According to a Forbes report, South Korean consumer electronics heavyweight Samsung is integrating the still-new, still-unreleased open source operating system Tizen into its surprisingly popular Bada mobile operating system. Tizen is the latest incarnation of the seemingly ever-changing mobile Linux distro formerly known as MeeGo; which itself was the combination of Nokia's Maemo and Intel and …
A tale of just another Linux kernel bug
As part of a bigger effort to get my Nokia N900 in good shape for development, I decided to track down an issue with the keyboard; I could type ‘a’, but not ‘A’ or any special characters, so no ‘shift’ or ‘ctrl’ or anything special. Trying to figure out what was going on took me through an unexpected journey, which is not remarkable, but I think it’s a good example of what many kernel developers (and low level developers) constantly go through, and as such, might be interesting for some people to read. Keycodes So, first things first.
Bungled account transfer costs hundreds of pounds
I invested £21,000 in a two-year fixed-rate bond with the Cheshire Building Society, which matured on September 29. I returned a form requesting that the balance be paid into my Co-operative Bank current account.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.49
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-28 through 2011-12-04 As of 2011-12-05 Extras contains: total items 2784 ( 5) total open items 947 ( 66) open bugs 527 ( 54) critical/blocker 39 ( 5) “easyfix” 4 ( 1) “moreinfo” 3 ( 2) “crash” 2 “patch” 2 ( 2) reopened 6 unconfirmed 327 ( 32) open enhancements 420 ( 12) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 ( 
Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 5 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
Questions Of Cash: Confusion over account number delayed money transfer for more than a month
Q I invested £21,000 in a two- year fixed-rate bond with the Cheshire Building Society, which matured on 29 September.
N900 takes a bite out of Ice Cream Sandwich, suffers Android brain freeze (video)
Espoo’s freshly dug some graves for its operating systems past , but that doesn’t mean the mobile underground’s leaving its antiquated wares behind. A hacker going by the winsome moniker of Drunkdebugger has kept the NITDroid project chugging along on the N900 with a port of Android’s latest 4.0 frosty delight .