I’ll be hosting a BoF session on extending Maemo 5’s new desktop at the Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam next weekend. It’ll be held in the 770 room on Sunday at 12:00.
Here are some documentation pointers for Hildon desktop extenders:
Writing Desktop Widgets in the draft Maemo 5 Developers Guide.
API reference for libhildondesktop, a library for […]
One of the first things I did when I joined Collabora, NPAPI plugins support for QtWebKit, has been included in the Qt 4.5 release candidate. The release contains an update to the WebKit engine to the upstream version, so in addition to a lot of new features and improvements, most NPAPI plugins will work out […]
In his History of Python: Introduction and Overview, Guido van Rossum repeats the confusion between “scripting” and “dynamic” languages:
Python is currently one of the most popular dynamic programming languages, along with Perl, Tcl, PHP, and newcomer Ruby. Although it is often viewed as a “scripting” language, it is really a general purpose programming language along […]