N900 charging from ‘dumb’ charger
I plugged in my n900 as it was on it’s very last gasps of power. Only to discover that it did not register any charge. I previously noted an issue with this charger when I’d completely run out of charge and found that whilst it did register charge nothing became responsive until I plugged it…
Displaying a busy indicator on maemo python app.
This is the post I wish existed when I was looking for how to do this simple thing. I spent hours reading around trying to figure out how to show my app is busy, but to no avail.
Setting up maemo 5 python development environment
Last week I finally got around to downgrading my laptop from karmic to jaunty.
Maemo : Custom cell renderer for gtk treeview (python)
I wrote a couple of weeks ago a little teaser about writing a custom cell renderer. When I first started witter, I found that a treeview was the obvious way to display tweets. And the available cell renderer was CellRendererText. which took care of the basics. However it didn’t look terribly ‘pretty’
Maemo 5: Basic gesture support in python
Once I got witter to the point that it had multiple views, I immediately wanted to have a nice way to switch between those views. In the first instance I just used buttons which have the advantage of being able to go direct to the view you want, but at the cost of screen space…
Custom cell renderer
As a teaser to a future post I thought I’d post an early screenshot of Witter using a custom cell renderer.
Using threads to do background work for maemo python app.
One of the most common requests for Witter has been to do auto-refresh on feeds. The challenge of doing this is having to switch from a single threaded user driven app, to a multi threaded app. This brings a bunch of challenges. For me the first was wanting to separate my code into separate python…
Witter – a basic python twitter client for Maemo
So I wrote last week about developing a basic twitter client. And this week I got the main stuff done, and wanted to share the code example here.
Developing applications for Maemo
When I first got my nokia 770 I intended to develop for it. I had a few ideas of what to write, but discovered apps already existing for just about everything I could think of. I also discovered that it’s not that easy developing for maemo.
