Author: seasoned_geek

You start at a new place or on a new Linux distro coding away on your Qt project and suddenly find yourself asking; “Where did my qDebug() output go?” Lots of people are suddenly finding themselves in this boat. I fell into this boat after installing Majaro so I could work on the code for the last post. You will find a metric buttload of bad information. In QtCreator you need to navigate to “Manage Kits” and scroll down to the Environment part. You then need to click on “change.” Add QT_LOGGING_TO_CONSOLE=1 (no spaces) and click the OK button. That’s it. Every time you use that kit on a project your qDebug() statements will print out like the used to….

This particular rant was started by my looking to divert my mind by answering a question on StackOverflow. Never ever ever go to StackOverflow. Kids today just don’t know squat and there is nothing you can do to help them. Let’s start with my initial response an a slightly improved image. QML is just a hand polished turd. There is no polite way to put it. Qt made a desperate ploy to attract script kiddies in the iDiot phone market with QML. The problem is, by and large, script kiddies don’t know anything. They tend to be “self-taught” with far more emphasis on “self” than “taught.” No grounding in the fundamentals of application design and software development. They just want…

It has been a very long time coming, life kept getting in the way here, but my Diamond editor changes are ready for pull. For those who don’t give a rat’s behind about the pull request, here are the new packages. These are not official. I have tested these Diamond editor packages in bare installs of said operating systems. For Ubuntu installs you need to use the Software Installer, not dpkg from the command line because dpkg won’t install dependencies. Note: I don’t remember if I fixed it or not. If you have an existing diamond config, sometimes the only theme you get is the one you had. Just rename your config file before installing. There aren’t that many settings….

Poking around this morning I stumbled into this post talking about what your email address says about you. The “Who do you trust?” question hits everyone with an email address, but technical recruiters most often. I love the survey results, even if they did only survey their own members. The graphic found later in the article made no sense given this graphic. I’m old enough to remember when Yahoo was the source of all spam. Of course the source moved around over the years. It had a very brief stay on Prodigy, then moved to Juno (although Juno based spammers used to spam IRC (Internet Relay Chat) boards rather than email because it was difficult to be a mass spammer…

I was working on a tiny database to send out some emails with varying subjects. Decided to use PostgreSQL so I could have a real database as the back end. SQLite doesn’t share (on most platforms) so I couldn’t add data while the program was running. Being able to add stuff and check on progress while running is one of those design things you can’t kick when you’ve been in IT as long as me. Nothing odd about the definition of the table. It only has two columns. Opted to be a bit lazy when I created the test data. I created a text file with the following: Next I created a simple import script. Here is what happened When…