Category Archives: Programming

Nanoparticles available for Android and Mac OS X

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

As mentioned in the post about Nanoparticles for Android being just around the corner, I have been able to port Nanoparticles by using the Qt port for Android enabled by the Necessitas project. That’s why you can download Nanoparticles from … Continue reading →

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Deploy Qt applications for Mac OS X

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

This turned out to be really simple. I was trying to create a Mac OS X version of my game, Nanoparticles, and was having trouble with some flicker when running a QGraphicsView with OpenGL. The solution turned out to simply … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles for Android is just around the corner

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Thanks to the great work of Bogdan Vatra and the Qt Developers working on Lighthouse, I have finally been able to create a running version of Nanoparticles on Android. Their efforts have led to the Necessitas project, a very user … Continue reading →

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RewriteRule in .htaccess not working for cURL

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

For some strange reason I have experienced on one server that the RewriteRule in .htaccess is not working for cURL via the command line. The fix has been to add a User-Agent line to the header of the cURL command, … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles available for Nokia N9

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Finally the N9 is here. And so is Nanoparticles for the Nokia N9. You can over to Nokia Store to get a copy right now: Download Nanoparticles You can read more about Nanoparticles and download it for other platforms on … Continue reading →

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How to get things done with todo.txt

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

The simple answer to how you get things done is to actually do them. However, to do things in an organized manner is more easily said than done. Why? Because it is way too easy to drift away with less … Continue reading →

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Handling locked screen event in Qt for Maemo

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

If you want to pause an application to save battery power when the screen is turned off, you can do this by listening for the locked screen event in Qt for Maemo. However, this is not made easily available through … Continue reading →

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Handling application minimization in Maemo with Qt

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

When you are developing with Qt on Maemo you might want to minimize or detect minimization of your application to the dashboard. Qt lacks clean functions for these use cases, but thankfully it’s still very easy to accomplish them. Minimizing … Continue reading →

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Loading local gems in cPanel shared host

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I had some trouble today figuring out why my Redmine installation wouldn’t start running on my shared server. I received the following error in my log/mongrel.log file: ** Starting Rails with production environment… Missing the i18n 0.4.2 gem. Please `gem … Continue reading →

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Trafikanten on Maemo

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Update: The package was pushed to Extras testing on 2nd of October. It was delayed because Maemo’s package repository would not import the new package due to some trouble with the version numbering. There has been missing a native application … Continue reading →

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