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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…

January 31, 2010
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.

January 16, 2010
Setting up maemo 5 python development environment

Last week I finally got around to downgrading my laptop from karmic to jaunty.

January 10, 2010
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’

January 2, 2010
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…

December 19, 2009
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.

December 16, 2009
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…

December 13, 2009
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.

November 7, 2009
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.

November 1, 2009

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