I’m usually an avid fanboy of Qt, but the more I use it, the more I find myself wanting two changes: 1. More slots please 2. More control over signals  Read on for a couple examples.

The GNU crew improved Make with lots of handy stuff. One such gem that I found today is the ?= operator, which only defines a macro if it is not already defined (like as an environment variable). It behaves almost like wrapping the assignment in ifndef. John Gramm-Cunning has a good explanation of this subtle […]

It’s not everyday that a man page makes you laugh out loud, but this blurb from the page for statfs did the job for me: I really did laugh out loud, until I read below in the page that basically explains that f_fsid just holds different things on different operating systems. Good for a laugh […]

I’ve been writing Python for a grand total of 2 days. I recently wrote a little Python script to print a Linx or UNIX system’s uptime. This took about 10 minutes to write, so I was pretty pleased. It even runs well on a 75MHz Busybox embedded Linux system. Check it out: One interesting thing […]

I was recently pleased to find an excuse to code some Python for the first time. I am impressed. Python doesn’t feel like other programming languages. When I write Python I feel like I’m just telling the computer what to do, rather than constantly worrying about essoteric language issues. What I mean is this. While […]

I just picked up a 10-year old copy of O’Reilly’s Practical C, 3rd Edition from the library for some light reading. Mostly, I just wanted to see if I would learn anything (as a guage of my own C proficiency). I’m glad to announce that I learned almost nothing, until, that is, I read page […]

Qt allows you to connect signals to slots, but did you know that you can connect signals to other signals? This makes it easier in some cases to move events around.