The Internet has no shortage of “how to cross compile Qt for Pi Web pages.” Most of them kind of were “right enough” at one point in time for a subset of people. Most of them don’t bother to tell you what the host system is. I suspect many of them used a 32-bit host system which masked most of the problems with their instructions. The instructions found here definitely fall into this category. How … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 18Read more
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Why 1099?
Some pieces of this content have been in other posts by me. I’m going to put it all in one post so I can just send recruiters here rather than have the same conversation for the 32,767th time. Why 1099 instead of W-2 or Corp-Corp? I started in IT consulting well before we had the infamous 20 questions. I believe it was even before we had the sub-chapter S corporation as well. The options available … Why 1099?Read more
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Migration Pretty Much Complete
There are always a few tweaks left to do here and there, but the migration is pretty much over. At some point in the next few hours the DNS changes will manage to reach every DNS cache on the Internet and everyone will be looking here. Thank you for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience.
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 17
On the desktop most of the application looks like this: One of the many things which is nice about widget based projects and the designer is that we get some really good widgets and can (usually) see what things will look like before we compile. That file chooser is all built in and the calendar select widget is already there for us to use. void MainWindow::importAction() { QString fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr(“Lotto Data to … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 17Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 16
As I pointed out many times in my Qt and databases book, most of the database examples you find online and even in official Qt documentation are shit. This is not my ego talking. They all do everything in the main event loop. Almost all of the cheat by using only a handful of rows so everything “seems” to work. Then you try to use it on real data and wonder why the application seems … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 16Read more