>Free Books

>
As the publishing date approaches I thought that I’d tell you a bit about my book: Foundations of Qt Development. It attempts to be a broad book, introducing most parts of Qt with working code examples and to always work from a practical starting point. As I am independent of Trolltech, I have had the opportunity to include third party applications as well, including CMake. This is something that I hope will help people get started with KDE development as well as Qt development.

Update – I’ve got over a hundred requests – I’ll notify the winners soon!

If you are interested, you can get a copy for free. All you need to do is to write a mail to e8johan () gmail ! com with the subject “I want a book“. Include your full name, postal address and a daytime phone number in the message body. The first five mailers will receive a free copy of the book directly from APress.

>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()) );
}

>KDE 4 Alpha 2

>Ok, it has been days since the second alpha of KDE 4 was released so I’m late. Still, I’ve put together a small collection of screens where I’ve tried some of the new stuff in KDE 4. The alpha is really limited still, so hopefully the review of the next edition will be more interesting. In the mean time – check out the current state here: KDE 4 Alpha 2 test run.

>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?

>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…

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