Posted on June 29, 2006 at 11:50 am
Just found this on Nithin Kamath’s blog. An article and a photo essay in Times about Mangalore, my hometown. This stuff seriously makes me homesick. I’ve always thought of going back to Managalore and doing something. Guess its high time I do something about it.
Posted on June 29, 2006 at 10:11 am
Why on earth do braggarts always turn out to be incompetent? Its so damn obvious and yet they don’t seem to know about it. And trying to help them seems to be a futile exercise.
Posted on June 29, 2006 at 9:56 am
I upgraded to Qt 4.1.4 GPL yesterday. Just did some note taking throught the whole process. Building Qt Extract Qt zipfile to C:\Qt Create directory C:\Qt\4.1.4 Copy Directory mkspecs to C:\Qt\4.1.4 go to C:\Qt\qt-win-opensource-src-4.1.4 and run “configure.exe -prefix C:\QT\4.1.4″ run “mingw32-make” and “mingw32-make install” Now for some reason QtDesigner doesn’t work. But then I hate [...]
Posted on June 26, 2006 at 8:46 am
One of the biggest woes Sreeram had with Twisted was that Deferreds were not cancelable in Twisted. He’s always held the opinion that Deferreds are not deferreds without cancelability. I’ve always held the opinion that not everything is cancelable, and cancelability is only required for long running operations (say downloading a large file or a [...]
Posted on June 4, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I’ve been trying to get the latest PyQT4 GPL snapshot with QT 4.1.2 working with Mingw32 on a windows box. Had a little bit of trouble in the process, so writing this log so that anyone else who tries this wouldn’t end up wasting time like I did Ingredients: 1) Python 2.4.3 2) Mingw 3) [...]
