Category Archives: Notes

Influential programming languages

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

InformIT has published a really good series by David Chisnall on influential programming languages: ALGOL, Simula, Smalltalk and Lisp. Highly recommended!

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‘Extending the Hildon desktop’ at the Maemo Summit 2009

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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 […]

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Format: It can also sense your fear

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

(from Xach’s ILC2009 slides)

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NPAPI plugin support included in Qt 4.5 release candidate

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

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 […]

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I’m going to FOSDEM

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

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