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• MeeGo is going without mee.

  Jun 4th 2010

  By: cyberkonsult

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  I have followed the MeeGo development for some time, but hasn’t posted anything on it fore a while. There is a reason for it.

  I built a modified image (to allow for more space in order to install stuff from the repos), and was very surprised at what I found.

  Aside the quality of the repo contents, the choice of content was very disturbing. Being early in development the quality will suffer but the strategic decisions made on the sw-stack worried me. Read this mail from some Mark:

  MeeGo-ML

  Mark wrote:

  "When MeeGo was announced, it was very clear: Qt is the main toolkit, GTK is
  just "community" supported."
  

  On the First IRC Technical Steering Group meeting , Imad Sousou (Intel) said:

  “Qt is the Application development for all usage models… some user experiences will be all based on Qt, some will be a mix”

  Note the “some user experiences will all be based on QT, some will be a mix”. I suppose that he really meant that some user experiences will be a mix of Qt and Gtk. Since the Application development will be Qt, the rest of the user experience must come from Gtk, and now we know it will also include mono.

  The mailing list itself has seen an increase of postings from novell guys, even the mono guru himself Miguel de Icaza

  As for the “Application development for all usage models” … HUH??

  Anyway, I don’t feel I can waste more time on MeeGo, I’ll spend it on Android unless the Linaro changes the game…

  Good wrapup on the Linaro thingy:

  Towards Linaro 10.11

  Development, MeeGo

  Linaro

• More on SW Documentation

  Mar 9th 2010

  By: cyberkonsult

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  There are some interesting points on the subject over att meego meego-sdk in subject:[MeeGo-SDK] SDK documentation system.

  If enough resourses is allocated to this project, it will run over some big players who are asleep. MeeGo could be what I have been waiting for since I made my 1:st j2me app, realizing j2me is more or less useless.. Expecting “write once run everywhere” it was very expensive and timeconsuming tweaking the app for every different device.. This should not happen in MeeGo since every device will run comparable software. Look at apps for Linux. You don’t have to tweak some app for every single device out there, Your app works on your server, your laptop and whatnot. This post was supposed to be about Documentation, but being home sick (fever and a sore  throat.. REALLY sore…) I am not the sharpest tool in the box… anyway, check out MeeGo!!!!

  Development, MeeGo

  MeeGo, softwaretools

• Zim – Desktop wiki

  Feb 6th 2010

  By: cyberkonsult

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  Most developers already have some software to aid their workflow, it can be anything from what comes with their IDE to stand alone bits and pieces.

  It all starts with some abstraction one way or the other, everything from UML diagrams, to a simple descriptive text is used. The source documentation methodology depends of both language and development environment, but very common is that the editor has more or less advanced support build in for it.

  In some cases I don’t use an advanced editor, then the workflow is not what it should be, definitely not consistent. I recently looked at personal wiki solutions, and came across Zim ( I just checked what I found in the kubuntu repo on searching on “wiki”) and I am very happy. The idea to use an wiki to document a software project is of course nothing new, but to start a sw project writing the lineouts in a wiki structure is new to me. Boy does that work well!! This little nifty prog (eh.. 35k loc:s counting pm and pl f-iles..) is really a simple way to structure the project. There are plugins and I suppose it will be trivial (have I said that too many times before..) to add a plugin (since the api seems well designed) to suck out the source comments from the files and put them somewhat structured into Zim, note that Zim comes with a subversion plugin, so maybe through that?? I’ll look into it when I have time.

  I think I will use Zim to document everything from training to receipts, have a look at it!

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  softwaretools

• Kompare lies

  Jun 14th 2009

  By: cyberkonsult

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  I was regtesting some code, debugging and using Kompare to spot diffs, when I got confused. I was ignoring som patterns using the “Ignore regexp” option (‘^\s*int’) and I realized that Kompare *kind of* lied to me. It looked like this in Kompare:
  left column : int sizeLogSeed = 30;
  right column: int sizeLogSeed = 30;

  Now, this is actually not correct, I was using an value of 35 in one version of the file.

  One could argue that since I choose to ignore those differences it shouldnt matter what was displayed, but I just dont like it!

  The reason Kompare behaves like this may, if I should take a stab in the dark (I dont have the sources at hand) , be that since Kompare is using “diff” it just forwards the regexp as an argument to diff and when getting the result back the line in question is omitted, hence the need to “recreate” it on the other column. Just a stab in the dark….

  Development

  Kompare, softwaretools

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