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QDetroBro: Experimenting with Qt on S60

Aug 13th

The best way to learn a new language or a new framework is to find an idea and implement it. So I’m doing for Qt on S60. So I decided to implement a dummy browser that has some smart/attractive/peculiar/interesting/funny bits. QDetroBro

Because I’m lazy to package and attach code, and because is always good the evolution of a project from the ground-up, I decided to post it on my GitHub account. You can find it at: http://github.com/detronizator/QDetroBro/tree/master.

It passed through 3 major phases:

v0.1-beta – Ultra-dummy browser with very “boring” UI. The entire code was in only 1/2 classes (power of Qt and Signal-Slots). Commit: f49bd…
v0.2-beta – A lot of interesting new bits, like Animations, Stylesheet-themed Widgets and so on. Commit: dae20…
v0.2.2-beta – The current release. Commit: 240c5…

If you want to take a look at it to see what Qt o n S60 can enable, please do. You can download the latest build from here.

Ah, of course there are requirements to run Qt code on S60. You find what to install on your phone here (“Demos for your S60″ section).

Chrome Experiments

Mar 21st

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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WOW!
I mean… WOW!
Look at what people are doing using the power of HTML5 + a very fast Javascript Engine!

Those experiments are collected here: Chrome Experiments (note the subtitle: “Not your mother’s JavaScript” – LOL).

Bear in mind: this is not only because of Chrome itself. This is the power of HTML5 Canvas element, plus, of couse, the very (very) fast V8 Javascript engine). And indeed, I ran them on my Safari 4 beta without a glitch: the Javascript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) is pretty good too.

I knew HTML5 is gonna be BIG, but I never thought “that BIG”. Not in terms of “it’s not doable” but in terms of “who can be that mad to do it!!!”
Evidently, there are a lot of “maddos” out there

Source: Official Google Blog.

LHC is working properly

Sep 10th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHC is working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind .

4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr

Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes):

LHC Cooldown Status – It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o
BBC Radio 4 following the event on the ground from the Control Room of the LHC

Large Hadron Collider goes Rap ;)

Sep 6th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Some scientists working on the LHC at the Cern of Geneva had a cool idea to make people aware of “what” they are going to do. On the 10th of September there will be the First Beam (more info on the official website/blog), and I like the way they make sure people understand it’s NOT the end of the World.

My personal answer to them is: