VolumeSlider’s tooltip misbehaviour
I was developing a Qt application that makes use of a Phonon::VolumeSlider object. But after clicking the mute button beside of the VolumeSlider and verifying its tooltip, I noticed it was showing the...
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Firefox 4.0 pre-beta released
Lifehacker shown a screenshot of the new Firefox 4.0 pre-beta for Windows. Here it is (Mozilla names Firefox beta versions “Minefield”): Nice, isn’t it? So, I downloaded the new beta for Linux, and it...
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Cool tools to avoid suffering with Windows
After two years working only with Linux and Mac OS, I received a new task that requires using Windows for two months (only two months, happily). It’s hard to get back to this bugful, unstable and...
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You can use dpkg to list all the packages that are selected on your Debian or Ubuntu system: # dpkg --get-selections But today I needed a way to list only the installed packages in just one line, so I...
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The Qt Ambassador Kit and my first impressions of Nokia C7
A few months ago, I submitted my personal audio player project Audactile to the Nokia’s Qt Ambassador program. They seem to have liked it and I was accepted into the program. The good surprise is that...
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Using Automator to make your life with Transmission easier
I have two computers: a Macbook with Snow Leopard, that sometimes I carry with me, and a computer at home with an Atom processor and running Linux that is my media server and downloader. If I need to...
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The first tips you’ll need before start programming for Symbian using Qt
Last weekend I made my first Qt/Symbian mobile application. It was a very simple project, and its only purpose was to learn how to program for Symbian platform. I made a small application to search...
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BDD: Using JBehave with Maven and Gradle
I’m studying Behaviour-Driven Development and evaluating some BDD frameworks for Java. The first one was JBehave. Behave, baby! I first made a small project, a simple calculator to multiply and divide...
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Sometimes it happens: I’m programming but I must stop and go to sleep. Some new feature is working, but needs some better code or error handling. So I put that ugly TODO there. This kind of comment...
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Image processing with Go
A few days ago I wanted to do some batch image processing. It could be done in Photoshop, I know, but I wanted to have some fun as well and learn some algorithms. I started studying Go in January and...
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