Setting up maemo 5 python development environment
Last week I finally got around to downgrading my laptop from karmic to jaunty.
Asrock ion 330 mythtv setup
For a little over 6 years I’ve had my tv connected to a pc running MythTV. It’s really cool, and I could never go back to watching regular live tv.
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…
Developing python for maemo 5
I wrote before about my little attempt to write a basic twitter client for the n810 and n900.It now has it’s own page here on my blog.It has come on a long way in a fairly short space of time. It still doesn’t support OAuth, and it’s still a monolithic app rather than a nicely engineered one.
My new n900
After what feels like forever, i finally have my N900. So here are my first impressions.
Nokia FAIL
I’ll start this post by pointing out that I am a Nokia fanboy. I love Nokia devices. I’ve only ever owned Nokia phones, and it is no secret how much I love my Nokia internet tablets. But boy are Nokia frustrating.
My first woodturning commission
This week a colleague approached me to ask if I could make something for him.His house, which he’s been renovating, still had an original doorbell from whenever it was built. The door bell was a round metal plate with a button in the middle, inset into a wood ring which was screwed to the wall.…