Openismus Getting Smaller

Openismus has recently had to let some great developers, and good friends, go. We are now much smaller.

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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

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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.

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Why the tablet form factor is winning

The press is writing a lot about a “post-PC ecosystem” these days, and while many dismiss tablets as simple toys, I think the world of computing is undergoing a major shift.

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Avoiding duplicate album art storage on the N9

At  Tracker (core component of Nokia  N9 ‘s MeeGo Harmattan’s Content Framework) we extract album art out of music files like MP3s, and we do a heuristic scan in the same directory of the music files for files like cover.jpg.

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Openismus work on Evolution-Data-Server and SyncEvolution

Evolution Data Server Recently, MeeGo switched to GNOME’s Evolution Data Server for storage of contacts, calendar, etc, though not for the API, which remains QtContacts, via the qtcontacts-eds backend. To help with that, Openismus has been making e-d-s performance improvements for Intel. For instance, to avoid unnecessary transfer of data across D-Bus.

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Qt Components – The story of the ugly QWidgetling

Disclaimer: these are my own, personal thoughts, not necessarily matching those of my employer, neighbor, goldfish or innocent bystander. Paradigm shifts are always difficult, especially when linked to technology changes . Qt Components are here and seeing that there and at least three component sets ( MeeGo Harmattan , Symbian , MeeGo UX ) and counting, it is hard to see how components will help solve the cross-platform problem that has been plaguing mobile developers.

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Flying Tonight

For the last two or three weeks, I’ve been battling the Black Dog. Those who know me well know that I suffer from chronic depression with acute patches

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N9 Excitement in #nokiacnxn

It was like a group of friends watching Superbowl, or World Cup, or Olympic Gold Hockey. Last night, a bunch of Maemo veterans gathered on #nokiacnxn on freenode to watch Nokia Connection 2011 go down.

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Respect

Through unimaginable hardships, we managed to pull a rabbit from the hat and get N9 done.

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