I have recently finished reading the Time magazine article on Oklahoma quakes. (Yes, I’m a bit behind on reading.) It was probably a good thing I didn’t read the article when it first came out as now most of the news shows are starting to talk about this same subject. Once again we have lobbyists passing out bribes so nothing has to change when the massive increase in earthquake activity tells anyone with a pulse … Lip Service and BribesRead 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