A couple weeks ago I departed on a journey… an entirely new phase of life one might say. It started with a growing distaste for modern food manufacturing techniques and an expensive premium ice cream habit, and culminated in the arrival of a Cuisinart ICE-50BCC Ice Cream Maker. I did a lot of [...]
I’ve used my share of window managers and desktop environments over the years; I think the progression went something like this: DOS (single window?) -> DESQview -> Windows 3.1 through WinNT -> WindowMaker -> Enlightenment -> IceWM -> Fluxbox -> E17 -> XFce -> KDE 3.x -> KDE 3.x with Compiz-Fusion -> Gnome + Compiz, [...]
In case you’ve been living under a rock or something and haven’t heard about Qt, it’s a cross-platform application framework that’s most famously known for being the underlying widget toolkit for the KDE desktop environment for *nixes.
Prior to a couple weeks ago I had never played with Qt, and I actually had sort of a [...]
It’s been about a year and half since I started actively using D — I’ve written (and maintained) a couple of small commercial applications in it, and taken maintainership over a couple of D related open source projects, but most of my experience with the language comes from using it to write my thesis project [...]
