gPodder/QML on the N900 – Yesteryear and today

I just found this pre-feb11 gPodder/QML on a N900 on 2011-02-04 video and someone on TMO recently asked me about the status of gPodder for the N900, so I thought I’d try the current version of gPodder on the N900.

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SeriesFinale 0.6.9

Yup, after some months, here is a new version of SeriesFinale . This new version doesn’t have many new features but brings an important one related to my previous blog post: the context menu . When long-pressing a show or a season, a dialog will be shown with some actions

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What community?

With the announcement of Tizen (pronounced, I learned, tie-zen, not tea-zen or tizz-en) recently, I headed over to the website to find out who the project was aimed at. I read this on the “Community” page: The Tizen community is made up of all of the people who collectively work on or with Tizen: Product contributors: kernel/distribution developers, release managers, quality assurance, localization, etc.

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Managing VCS Repositories with Woodchuck

At the recent GNU Hackers Meeting , I gave a talk about Woodchuck . (I’ll publish another post when the video is made available.) The talk resulted in a lot of great feedback including a question from Arne Babenhauserheide whether Woodchuck could be used to automatically synchronize git or mercurial repositories.

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Managing VCS Repositories with Woodchuck

At the recent GNU Hackers Meeting , I gave a talk about Woodchuck .

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A Proper Development Environment Thanks to Tramp Mode in Emacs

As part of some Woodchuck -related work, I’ve done a fair amount of Python programming on Maemo. Python, being an interpreted language, runs the source code; there is no need to compile it to some binary representation as is the case with C

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APT Woodchuck

A couple of weeks ago, I was chatting with Michael Banck about DebConf. He told me that one of the sponsors provided everyone a SIM card with 5 units of credit, and that the first time he established a data connection was also his last: he got bit by Maemo’s automatic repository update misfeature ; because, he had gone more than 24 hours without checking for software updates, Maemo checked even though he was using a cellular data connection and only had a few megabytes worth of data transfer credit. A simple workaround for this bug is to disable updates .

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How quick I got started with Qt Quick

A month ago I downloaded the last Qt SDK , plugged my Nokia N9 to it and started writing from scratch a chess game UI.

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N9 Swipe undocumented feature; activate sane behavior

Ed Page recently blogged about his idea to improve the Swipe UI.

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Cups-client

/ 0 votes – 0 downloads Updated 2011-08-12 15:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Common UNIX Printing System(tm) – client programs (SysV) The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types

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