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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.

June 5, 2010
N900 IM style notifications from python

In the last couple of days I’ve spent several hours trawling the internet in search of an example of something I hoped would be fairly easy. How to trigger an IM/Email type notification event from python.

May 22, 2010
N900 finding its way

The last week has seen some interesting progress for the n900. Firstly it was great to see phototranslator finally being availiable in extras-devel. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about having lost patience waiting and played with OCR myself.

March 21, 2010
A long overdue refactor

For the last couple of weeks, my time on Witter has been spent refactoring the code to be more managable. And hopefully allow easier addition of things like multiple account support.

February 27, 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
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

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