Miscellaneous – Page 16 – Life of a Developer

>Crunchier than ever

>Helder just released SpeedCrunch 0.8 – great work guys!

>Finally Commited

>I – finally – made my first commit to an open source project this year! What a feeling – one bug down, an uncountable number to go!

Index: keypad.cpp =================================================================== --- keypad.cpp (revision 584) +++ keypad.cpp (revision 585) @@ -387,8 +387,6 @@ connect( d->keyASin, SIGNAL(clicked()), SLOT(clickedASin()) ); connect( d->keyACos, SIGNAL(clicked()), SLOT(clickedACos()) ); connect( d->keyATan, SIGNAL(clicked()), SLOT(clickedATan()) ); - - connect( this, SIGNAL(settingsChanged()), SLOT(settingsChanged()) ); }

>10 PRINT "Hello World!"

>I’m just in a great mood today as my book, Foundations of Qt Development, is going to get printed today. Almost a year of hard work is coming to an end and I’ve just started my summer vacation. Nice to have some time of, and even nicer to be a proper book author and not just some article writer for Datormagazin :-)

>A call for help

>It seems that SpeedCrunch needs help from translators. Be brave – step up!

On a side not, SpeedCrunch development has really been revitalized when the new maintainer, Helder Correia, took over.

>A long time ago…

I found some old code today.

!       Boundaries

       CHARACTER*60    BNDFN(1:15)
       INTEGER*2       CHKBOUNDS
       INTEGER*2       LOADBOUNDS

       INTEGER*2       BNDS
       INTEGER*2       CHKBNDS

       COMMON  /CBOUND/ BNDFN,CHKBOUNDS,LOADBOUNDS,BNDS,CHKBNDS

I just have to say that I love the code, in a painful kind of way.

        ELSE IF (STRINGCOMPARE(VARIABLE,'BOUNDFILE'//CHAR(0)) .EQ. 0) THEN
               IF (CHKBNDS .EQ. 1) THEN
                       IF (CHKBOUNDS .EQ. 0) THEN
                               LOADBOUNDS = LOADBOUNDS + 1
                       READ (VALUE, '(A60)') BNDFN(LOADBOUNDS)

                               IF (LOADBOUNDS .EQ. BNDS) THEN
                                       CHKBOUNDS = 1
                               ENDIF
                       ENDIF
               ENDIF

This was actually my first paid software job. I wonder what kept me going.

        IF(FILTER .EQ. 60) THEN
               /KILL("T3")
               /BUTTER("NOFILT","T3",2,0.0,100.0,1,1)
               /KILL("T2")
               /CONV("T3","T2",0,,,,,1)
               /KILL("T3")
               /BUTTER("T2","T3",2,0.0,100.0,1,1)
               /KILL("T2")
               /CONV("T3","T2",0,,,,,1)

So, any Trolls out there that know anything about any Fortran bindings for Qt?

>Finally F/OSS

>I’ve finally had time to do some minimal F/OSS work again – it has been months. I’d like to start by thanking Helder, Ariya and everyone else who have been working on SpeedCrunch 0.8. Yesterday evening I put together a Windows Installer for the 0.8 alpha release. Try it! Show it to your friends! Make your mum use it!

>Shopping for Books

>I just ordered a bunch of books – I hope that they are good. I feel that I need to get some good reference books instead of just Googling as soon as I need to know something. Perhaps I can find the time to do some reading during the summer…

Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach by Hallinan. This one includes kernel debugging techniques as well as a good focus on memory technology devices and flash file systems.
Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition) by Bovet and Cesati. A good coverage of the different parts of the Kernel.
Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition) by Corbet, Rubini and Kroah-Hartman. This is probably where I’ll spend 95% of my time when working with embedded Linux. The book only covers kernel 2.4, but it is still a printed reference and a good starting point.

All that is left now is to wait 5-7 days for delivery.

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