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My first Maemo desktop widget

marcoil — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:58:17 +0000

These are the slides for the talk I’m giving at the Maemo Barcelona Long Weekend on how to develop desktop widgets for the Nokia N900:

My first Maemo desktop widget

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‘Extending the Hildon desktop’ at the Maemo Summit 2009

marcoil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:11:28 +0000

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 desktop extension developement.
Python bindings for libhildondesktop.

In preparation for the event, I’d love to hear from people interested in the Hildon desktop, and specially from people developing home and status menu widgets.

Updated: The final Maemo 5 SDK has been released, I’ve changed the libhildondesktop link to the newest version.

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marcoil — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:30:57 +0000

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Format: It can also sense your fear

marcoil — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:02:03 +0000

(from Xach’s ILC2009 slides)

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marcoil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:30:52 +0000

philosecurity » Blog Archive » Pirates and Ninjas: Emacs or Vi? -
Premake | industriousOne - “Premake is a build configuration tool. Describe your build using a simple, easy to read syntax and let Premake generate the project files for your specific toolset. Premake makes it easy to manage your builds, on one platform or many, and the full-featured Lua scripting engine makes build configuration tasks a breeze.”
Welcome to Self ? Self - the power of simplicity - The Self language gets its own web page.

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NPAPI plugin support included in Qt 4.5 release candidate

marcoil — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:14:32 +0000

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 of the box in any application that uses QtWebKit.

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marcoil — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:30:29 +0000

YouTube - Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny -
Auditorium - Index - A very impressive puzzle game.
Cthulhu Tract | By Fred Van Lente and Steve Ellis - I recently got a very similar comic on my car, but this one has a better ending.

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marcoil — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:30:47 +0000

Parasite - “Parasite is a debugging and development tool that runs inside your GTK+ application’s process. It can inspect your application, giving you detailed information on your UI, such as the hierarchy, X window IDs, widget properties, and more. You can modify properties on the fly in order to experiment with the look of your UI.”
Jay Fields’ Thoughts: The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers -
SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator -

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I’m going to FOSDEM

marcoil — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:51:35 +0000

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Scripting languages are not the same as dynamic languages

marcoil — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:48:00 +0000

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 the lines of Lisp or Smalltalk (as are the others, by the way).

I think there’s a big difference between the two categories, and the reason they get confused is that both are usually high level languages with dynamic typing, automatic memory management, etc.

But the two types of languages are really different when it comes to how the programmer interacts with them, and in how they are implemented:

Scripting languages read whole programs from outside the compiler and execute them immediately, usually with a minimal amount of processing.
Dynamic languages include the compiler in their own environment, and programming is seen as adding or modifying that environment.

For some reason, calling a language “scripting” is seen as somehow implying it’s a lower, less powerful language. That’s clearly not true. Nothing in the way Python works makes it a less-than-general purpose language. It simply doesn’t work the way Lisp or Smalltalk do.

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