I'm a very recent (3 days) user of scratchbox2 for cross-compiling. My initial response was "this is crazy magic" awe, followed shortly by "this is a crazy mountain of hacks" skepticism. However, after some use & success now, it seems to be a really neat tool.
The best introductions to scratchbox2 …
Today I Learned how to minimise latency when sending data to a computer from an Arduino (or any other FTDI-based device.) I learned it specifically for Windows, Linux and OS X.
Well, actually I learned this a few weeks ago while developing the [Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge]{style="white-space: nowrap …
Too much going on lately:
I just started working on a simple cross-platform desktop application. I'm developing from Linux and hoping to build binaries for Linux, Windows and OS X.
This quick blog post are some notes I took about:
* Developing & building a Qt app for Windows, on Linux with wine.
* Building static Qt libraries …
Last Monday I walked into a Big W store here in Canberra and paid $188AU ($196US) for an Android smartphone, no network lock and no contract. I've had it for nearly a week now. What do I think? I think, with minor qualifications, that it's almost unbelievably good.
The …
When I ditched my iPhone 11 months ago, I promised a follow-up post about the experience. So here it is.
Only one thing really surprised me about going back to a "dumbphone." The idle moments. The habit of pulling out my phone to fill them was deeply ingrained, even …
I did some investigation into the Bing & Google spat. Once the Bing Toolbar is installed, IE 8 sends Microsoft a summary of every page URL that is requested. I found no evidence the toolbar singles out Google, or even search engines. I found no evidence of directly …