Yesterday ITT Technical Institute announced the closing of all its “schools.” This type of crackdown has been a looooong time coming. While I personally know nothing about ITT, I did make the mistake of attending Devry during my yoot. I first went to a local Junior College to obtain my Associates degree so I had a good school to compare Devry too, but, once you are enrolled you are mostly screwed if you took out … First ITT – Next Devry?Read more
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Raspberry Qt – Part 13 – A Bit of Explanation
Please read Part 12 first. Were this a book I would be printing and explaining a lot of code. This isn’t a product people are paying for so it will be a bit more limited. Hopefully you pulled down the original source zip posted quite a ways back in this thread. You should have also pulled down the Pi QML zip file from my previous post. Now you just have to pull down this file.deskQml … Raspberry Qt – Part 13 – A Bit of ExplanationRead more
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Raspberry Qt – Part 12 – QML Blows Big Stinky Chunks
Given all of the rah-rah about QML and all of the calls I get about it I think it is time for a level headed appraisal. Unless you are developing only for a platform which already has to drag around the fully loaded 18 wheeler known as a javascript engine and it is actually able to do it, there is no reason to be using QML. You don’t give your battery powered contraption which has … Raspberry Qt – Part 12 – QML Blows Big Stinky ChunksRead more
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Raspberry Qt – Refresh
This post is more for me than you. A combination of client wanting me to do some QML stuff and having done too many horrible things to my desktop set me up for a wipe and re-install of Ubuntu 16.04. NOTE: I wasted all of Sunday with various crashes and being unable to boot. And this was a machine which had been running 16.04 64-bit. The clean install would go great, taking forever with downloads … Raspberry Qt – RefreshRead more
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C++ 11 and Qt — Part 5 Constructor Initializer List Religion
Okay, we are going to cover this one last time. If you are new to C++ programming you probably don’t know the doo-doo storm I kicked off bringing the subject up earlier in this series of posts. There are a few things which will start a bar fight among programmers. The first is declaring a single editor as the greatest editor of all time. (Besides, you will always find one grizzled troll declaring vi to … C++ 11 and Qt — Part 5 Constructor Initializer List ReligionRead more