I'm not a regular C++ programmer or user of Qt, but as a casual observer it seems that the mobile/embedded APIs in Qt 5.2 could provide a fresh new approach for Android and other mobile platforms. However they are steering clear of easy webkit use, altho there are ways to fiddle around with JNI to get a web interface of some sort, and there are hints at Qt WebEngine (based on the Chrome engine) maybe being available in Qt 5.3 (or only in the enterprise version?). Blogs and new releases seem to vary.
I am a little curious about how well QML and the widgets UI tools can be used on Android, and whether these would be a better alternative to embedded web views for some solutions. Some of the tutorial examples seem straight-forward enough and run ok on my phone anyway.
As I said, I'm not using or experienced with C++, but when I occasionally feel the temptation to take it up, Qt 5 is looking like a good way to start. I would be interested to hear what general opinions are on where Qt is at at where they appear to be heading with embedded APIs and such.
I can't help feeling that a large majority of the crap apps were created by people who had just installed the SDK's etc and completed the first few tutorials on how to access bits of the API. Acceptance into the app store is really the problem, there should have been some kind of check and a requirement to explain why your implementation of a compass is different than the 250 existing compass apps on the store. Seriously, filter out the tutorial example code and see how many apps are left.
I noticed a QR code on a pack of pork at the local supermarket and thought hey maybe they have some useful information related to this. Scanned the QR with my phone and got sent to a full sized web page that would have looked busy on a desktop monitor, and had absolutely nothing viewable on a mobile screen. Eww well... they have taken the first stumbling step anyway.
I wouldn't mind notification as I slide the key in, such as "Would you like to remove the device from the diagnostic port before driving?". I'm sure the technician with a legitimate purpose will be able to handle a few extra steps in activating diagnostic systems.
I work for a Fortune 500 company which is a microsft gold partner, but they made us sign some crap agreement that all MSDN resources are to be used at work on their equipment only, so at home I learn and tinker with mostly non-microsoft technology which is not and never will be accepted for use by my employers (their loss). Their reasoning mystified me until we learnt that it was just a policy created by the IT management to make their job easier, so quite unrelated to the company-wide misunderstanding and total under-utilization of their developer resources.
Of course, I will need to be extra creative and put something out there to show potential new employers that I know some of this technology, if I decide to get a job using it in a non-MS environment, as I have not been using it in the workplace, but it still gives pleasure to learn and investigate alternative tech.
Well one aspect to consider is, keeping a bunch of staff tied into using some proprietary internally developed tools could also be isolating those staff from gaining any experience with current tools out there in the market and in use by many/most future employers. I am stuck in a situation like this myself, where any chance to get a new job will rely on me learning new development tools in my own time on my home PC, then trying to convince somebody that this is the same as workplace experience with the tools.
Out of consideration of your staff and their career development, they should be able to at least keep up with knowledge and preferably hands on experience of real world tools. Of course, some employers don't give a toss about such things.
Do you have Steam auto starting at powerup, and do you know how many games are attempting to synchronise their cloud backup data at startup? My router has fits and sometimes reboots after powering up my win7 PC. Trying to eliminate what could be flooding it, and so far Steam appears to be the only likely candidate.
... CCC's problems have nothing to do with the development environment, language, and framework used...
Well I seem to remember repeated faults with mismatched.Net library dependencies and somehow ending up with a CCC installation that would not load up its user interface and could not be fixed by uninstall/re-install and wasted many days of effort. But I guess you are right, it takes a special kind of developer to make such a poor hash-up of a user interface.
Yeah I feel the same way about their driver support, couldn't trust them with too much of my limited gaming hardware budget. Also, would it be really really difficult for them to hire some decent programmers and produce a new version of Catalyst control center that doesn't have to run on.Net? Whatever happened to C++ and fast reliable software?
I recall an "alternative" medicine article I read recently (but didn't take too seriously) which insisted that raising the body's overall pH level above a certain point would pretty much give protection against cancer. This would seem to agree, if the acid excreted by these bacteria is the link, as suggested. Hopefully these avenues are being investigated.
yeah but VLC for android is not yet ready for market. the audio is never in sync with the video. practically any other android video player is better than VLC.
Can you still do that? Last time I installed twonky those options seemed to have disappeared. Or were they moved from the free version to the paid app only?
I found a hacked version of cyanogen that some lad put together, camera drivers were a bit suspect from all accounts, just haven't built up the courage to try it yet. I guess my real gripe is with the LG support - if some teenager hobbiest can get cyanogen to work on the phone then LG must have technical people who could do something similar. (and to the other dude, this is New Zealand, there are no cheap phones here. I think it was at least $200 when I bought it)
Thing is, he's not wrong. Most consumers won't notice.
I certainly noticed when Google Chrome would not install on my android 2.3 phone, which LG refuse to provide any further updates for. In fact Google seem to be the most inclined to produce apps which will only run on the latest version of android and bugger anybody who hasn't thrown out last years tech and bought something new.
People who are investigating this process on their own are much further a long the path of truth then those who just repeat wrote memorized lessons from official sources of information provided by your exalted overlords.
If he wrote the meaning of the word rote enough times, maybe he would remember how to spell it.
And there I was wondering if I should experiment with the open ada compiler I found in my Linux repository. Guess it wouldn't boost my chances for getting employed as an ageing developer tho.
Eureka! is for idiots too stupid for Sci Fi that want to pretend to be Sci Fi fans.
How can you say that? At least 50% of the events/effects in each episode are caused by electromagnetic field fluctuations, 25% are something to do with sonic resonance, the remainder of the problems and/or solutions involve the word "quantum", and occasionally they even threw in the word "gravity". Ok, so there was lots of fiction... maybe it should be called Sigh Fi.
"Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system."
Recently I thought I would try the latest Qt IDE on Ubuntu 12.04. Did the apt installs and tried to use the IDE, got strange error messages and a crashing app just from trying to access some of the tools. After going thru all the obvious steps and finally ending up on the forums with the appropriate authorities on Qt, I get advised that I should uninstall the Ubuntu packages and download and build it all myself, cos the Ubuntu packages are usually borked.
And this after I had just spent several months trying to convince myself that Linux had come a long way towards being a reliable click-and-go desktop solution. Not a hater, I have been used Linux for fun and a little programming for well over 10 years, I just feel disappointed every time I have to sift thru the crap and read the discussions across several eras of a library or app's evolution to find the solution to a problem, cos I relied on the packaging system of the distro I am using at the time. Its fun and all, at first, but eventually gets tedious. Perhaps I should ditch Ubuntu, but its not like this is the ONLY distro I ever encountered this with.
Too true. The only real statistical proof would come from getting a dowser to flag an equal number of places that DO have water and DO NOT have water below them. If the statistical anomaly is larger than random for both sets of identified locations, then maybe we would have to start believing in something.
I loved the old-school hard core action in sauerbraten but got put off badly when people started using every hack imaginable, including running around 10 times faster than everybody else while their aim bot shot everybody in range. This was when I realized that open source multiplayer games are only any fun in closed environments or when there was some effort put into validating that each client was running the same unmodified code.
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I'm not a regular C++ programmer or user of Qt, but as a casual observer it seems that the mobile/embedded APIs in Qt 5.2 could provide a fresh new approach for Android and other mobile platforms. However they are steering clear of easy webkit use, altho there are ways to fiddle around with JNI to get a web interface of some sort, and there are hints at Qt WebEngine (based on the Chrome engine) maybe being available in Qt 5.3 (or only in the enterprise version?). Blogs and new releases seem to vary.
I am a little curious about how well QML and the widgets UI tools can be used on Android, and whether these would be a better alternative to embedded web views for some solutions. Some of the tutorial examples seem straight-forward enough and run ok on my phone anyway.
As I said, I'm not using or experienced with C++, but when I occasionally feel the temptation to take it up, Qt 5 is looking like a good way to start. I would be interested to hear what general opinions are on where Qt is at at where they appear to be heading with embedded APIs and such.
I can't help feeling that a large majority of the crap apps were created by people who had just installed the SDK's etc and completed the first few tutorials on how to access bits of the API. Acceptance into the app store is really the problem, there should have been some kind of check and a requirement to explain why your implementation of a compass is different than the 250 existing compass apps on the store.
Seriously, filter out the tutorial example code and see how many apps are left.
I noticed a QR code on a pack of pork at the local supermarket and thought hey maybe they have some useful information related to this.
Scanned the QR with my phone and got sent to a full sized web page that would have looked busy on a desktop monitor, and had absolutely nothing viewable on a mobile screen.
Eww well... they have taken the first stumbling step anyway.
heh, you don't take into account paranoid players, who act as if there is a bad guy behind every wall. I just naturally use that strategy :)
I wouldn't mind notification as I slide the key in, such as "Would you like to remove the device from the diagnostic port before driving?".
I'm sure the technician with a legitimate purpose will be able to handle a few extra steps in activating diagnostic systems.
I work for a Fortune 500 company which is a microsft gold partner, but they made us sign some crap agreement that all MSDN resources are to be used at work on their equipment only, so at home I learn and tinker with mostly non-microsoft technology which is not and never will be accepted for use by my employers (their loss). Their reasoning mystified me until we learnt that it was just a policy created by the IT management to make their job easier, so quite unrelated to the company-wide misunderstanding and total under-utilization of their developer resources.
Of course, I will need to be extra creative and put something out there to show potential new employers that I know some of this technology, if I decide to get a job using it in a non-MS environment, as I have not been using it in the workplace, but it still gives pleasure to learn and investigate alternative tech.
Well one aspect to consider is, keeping a bunch of staff tied into using some proprietary internally developed tools could also be isolating those staff from gaining any experience with current tools out there in the market and in use by many/most future employers. I am stuck in a situation like this myself, where any chance to get a new job will rely on me learning new development tools in my own time on my home PC, then trying to convince somebody that this is the same as workplace experience with the tools.
Out of consideration of your staff and their career development, they should be able to at least keep up with knowledge and preferably hands on experience of real world tools. Of course, some employers don't give a toss about such things.
Do you have Steam auto starting at powerup, and do you know how many games are attempting to synchronise their cloud backup data at startup?
My router has fits and sometimes reboots after powering up my win7 PC. Trying to eliminate what could be flooding it, and so far Steam appears to be the only likely candidate.
... CCC's problems have nothing to do with the development environment, language, and framework used ...
Well I seem to remember repeated faults with mismatched .Net library dependencies and somehow ending up with a CCC installation that would not load up its user interface and could not be fixed by uninstall/re-install and wasted many days of effort. But I guess you are right, it takes a special kind of developer to make such a poor hash-up of a user interface.
I often wondered if his intent was as intensive as his purpose.
Yeah I feel the same way about their driver support, couldn't trust them with too much of my limited gaming hardware budget. .Net?
Also, would it be really really difficult for them to hire some decent programmers and produce a new version of Catalyst control center that doesn't have to run on
Whatever happened to C++ and fast reliable software?
I recall an "alternative" medicine article I read recently (but didn't take too seriously) which insisted that raising the body's overall pH level above a certain point would pretty much give protection against cancer. This would seem to agree, if the acid excreted by these bacteria is the link, as suggested.
Hopefully these avenues are being investigated.
yeah but VLC for android is not yet ready for market. the audio is never in sync with the video. practically any other android video player is better than VLC.
Can you still do that? Last time I installed twonky those options seemed to have disappeared. Or were they moved from the free version to the paid app only?
I found a hacked version of cyanogen that some lad put together, camera drivers were a bit suspect from all accounts, just haven't built up the courage to try it yet.
I guess my real gripe is with the LG support - if some teenager hobbiest can get cyanogen to work on the phone then LG must have technical people who could do something similar.
(and to the other dude, this is New Zealand, there are no cheap phones here. I think it was at least $200 when I bought it)
Thing is, he's not wrong. Most consumers won't notice.
I certainly noticed when Google Chrome would not install on my android 2.3 phone, which LG refuse to provide any further updates for.
In fact Google seem to be the most inclined to produce apps which will only run on the latest version of android and bugger anybody who hasn't thrown out last years tech and bought something new.
Hey did he mention frickin lasers on a ... oh wait, I see what you did there
People who are investigating this process on their own are much further a long the path of truth then those who just repeat wrote memorized lessons from official sources of information provided by your exalted overlords.
If he wrote the meaning of the word rote enough times, maybe he would remember how to spell it.
I got an idea.Pay him to do it. Your company works for money.
Heh. Money well spent on Health IT innovations.
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sorry, spilt my coffee.
And there I was wondering if I should experiment with the open ada compiler I found in my Linux repository.
Guess it wouldn't boost my chances for getting employed as an ageing developer tho.
Eureka! is for idiots too stupid for Sci Fi that want to pretend to be Sci Fi fans.
How can you say that? At least 50% of the events/effects in each episode are caused by electromagnetic field fluctuations, 25% are something to do with sonic resonance, the remainder of the problems and/or solutions involve the word "quantum", and occasionally they even threw in the word "gravity". Ok, so there was lots of fiction... maybe it should be called Sigh Fi.
"Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system."
Recently I thought I would try the latest Qt IDE on Ubuntu 12.04. Did the apt installs and tried to use the IDE, got strange error messages and a crashing app just from trying to access some of the tools. After going thru all the obvious steps and finally ending up on the forums with the appropriate authorities on Qt, I get advised that I should uninstall the Ubuntu packages and download and build it all myself, cos the Ubuntu packages are usually borked.
And this after I had just spent several months trying to convince myself that Linux had come a long way towards being a reliable click-and-go desktop solution.
Not a hater, I have been used Linux for fun and a little programming for well over 10 years, I just feel disappointed every time I have to sift thru the crap and read the discussions across several eras of a library or app's evolution to find the solution to a problem, cos I relied on the packaging system of the distro I am using at the time. Its fun and all, at first, but eventually gets tedious. Perhaps I should ditch Ubuntu, but its not like this is the ONLY distro I ever encountered this with.
Dowsing is crap.
Too true. The only real statistical proof would come from getting a dowser to flag an equal number of places that DO have water and DO NOT have water below them. If the statistical anomaly is larger than random for both sets of identified locations, then maybe we would have to start believing in something.
Because God knows you will only mod up atheist-oriented posts?
I loved the old-school hard core action in sauerbraten but got put off badly when people started using every hack imaginable, including running around 10 times faster than everybody else while their aim bot shot everybody in range.
This was when I realized that open source multiplayer games are only any fun in closed environments or when there was some effort put into validating that each client was running the same unmodified code.