Recently I had to change my password for a Jeep owners forum. It didn’t expire or anything like that, I simply couldn’t remember the one I had used. Well, they had “new rules.” Keep in mind this is a user forum for owners of both new and beater Jeeps to exchange info. The crawler sections talk endlessly about mods to their Jeeps and events. Those of us who tend to buy beater Jeeps talk about … So Secure You Are InsecureRead more
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Qt Pi Stuff on Pause for Now
A few weeks back I took an on-site contract far away from home and could not bring all of my toys so the Qt on Pi stuff is on hold until this contract ends. My apologies. I will still be writing the occasional blog post but they will be “thought pieces” instead of coding pieces.
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First ITT – Next Devry?
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