Super Soft Cafe

I’ve just produced a video showing the use of QtDesigner with PyQt4. It’s simple, just a couple of buttons, but it joins the dots to get you started. View it on youtube, or here :-).

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Oh lament lament lament. I am still coming to terms with a review process that thinks wobbly bits are more offensive than people being brutally murdered. I think that this is a basic difference between Europeans and Americans that I will never understand.

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I’ve just installed Windows 7, and was really quite happy because here in Europe we are not forced to use IE :-)..   Ok, installing, installing, waiting for ballot box, installing, rebooting, waiting for ballot box, looking at desktop, waiting for ballot box, using Internet Explorer….    err…   So where’s the ballot box?..

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I’ve seen this great article on how to enable concurrent RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) sessions on Windows 7. I need to configure a computer for my mother in law, but want to be able to access it sometimes without kicking her off. So this is ideal, and yes, it works :-).

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Just incase you’re wondering where your multiple touch events are on this multitouch device, don’t forget to set multipleTouchEnabled = YES on your UIView. I forgot, and almost pulled out all my hair!

Imagine, you’ve grown up on C / C++, then moved to Java and laughed out loud at how easy it is. But years later, you have become lazy, you have grown accustomed to good memory management.

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