Monthly Archives:: June 2008

After almost a year without any sign of life, Samuel and I decide that we should resurrect the Graphics Dojo, i.e. by populating it with some new fresh examples. Being a graphics ninja, Samuel’s first example is on how to (finally) put widgets on OpenGL viewport. This is now made possible thanks to Qt 4.4‘s… Read more »

Jim Rohn quotes have been always my favorites. Here are my picks: Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book Let others lead small lives, but not you…. Read more »

Taken today, half an hour past midnight, where the night lasts for only roughly 5 hours 10 minutes. And Oslo is only at 59° 56′ North. I wish I would have gone further north.

Just for fun, I tested JavaScript performance of several web browsers, using the well-known SunSpider benchmark tool. The test machine is a fairly old Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo notebook with AMD Turion64 1.8 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows XP SP2. The result is not surprising. Internet Explorer is notoriously slow but there is… Read more »

There are tons of open-source projects, on SourceForge, Google Code, etc. If you check a project, most likely you see the screenshots first (don’t be ashamed, to look at a screenshot is human). And there lies the problem. There is a fairly small amount of coders that are both very good at writing codes and… Read more »

Are you a web developer, using Linux, and still running Safari under Wine to use its lovely Web Inspector? How about an alternative: use Web Inspector natively under Linux, e.g. inside Arora. Check out my blog post on Trolltech Labs for details. The obligatory screenshot for your pleasure: