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Custom Nunit runner for parallel testing
In my new team there is considerable use of Nunit for unit tests, which has been further adopted as a convenient mechanism for all tests. Including a set of selenium based UI tests.
N900 portrait keyboard for Witter
Recently Nokia released the much awaited pr 1.2 firmware for the N900, and among the many bug fixes and tweaks, came the ability to easily rotate applications to portrait by hitting ctrl+shift+r, then closing the keyboard and rotating to portrait.
Advanced eclipse and Rational Team Concert (RTC) tips
I spend pretty much most days working in and around RTC, an Eclipse-based tool for development and agile project development. Many of the great features are very obvious, others are not so much, but still really very helpful.
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.