Tag: witter

  • Maemo Application repository – A suggestion

    One of the things which I like about Maemo is the way they arrange an application repository structure go with a development cycle of an app. Rather than simply writing something, and making it available in an appstore when you’ve made it ‘perfect’ there is a tiered structure.

  • Autonomy, mastery, purpose

    I recently watched a really interesting you tube video about drive. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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…