Life of a Developer

>As the F1 circus has stopped for this year, I’ve put together two playlists for all grand prix fans out there (hi Tom!). Try watching The History of the Grand Prix Car and The History of Motor Racing. Both available directly from YouTube.

>I’m just sitting here waiting for crosstools to finish. Hopefully this will make my work really smooth (fewer hours to charge for though). If everything works I will have a bootable image for an ARM hardware by tomorrow.

BTW – anybody from Gothenburg who enjouys playing with Qt – mail me (e8johan, gmail) or post a comment.

>The last changes to the 0.7 branch brings fixes to CMake builds of both Mac (thanks Matt!) and Win32 binaries (now with application icons). We are getting really close to a final 0.7 release.

>Sorry guys – I just managed to do what I hate when others do. I successfully spammed Planet KDE. Notice to blogger users – that is what updating your template does…

>Just trying to convince blogger beta to update the RSS flow.

>I read this article in today’s edition of NyTeknik about a consultancy company (Omicron) recommending Stockholm to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office. The biggest issue was that some functions where missing so advanced users such as controllers and “technical people” (teknikfolk) might need to keep their old Office suites. Smaller issues where that some fonts where different and other cosmetic details. The big benefits was that all users got started right away – no need for additional training – and the licensing costs.

Another nice aspekt is that the representative for the city of Stockholm says that this is not only about licensing costs. The report is a part in a bigger operation to evaluate possibility to use open source within the city.

Finally, the number of users that can be affected are 25000. Pretty neat if it works out.

>I just switched to Blogger Beta and it seems that it caused my RSS feed to stop getting updated. Bummer. I’ve asked the syndications that I know of to update their settings and to use my ATOM feed as it keeps on working.

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It was a long time since I felt that work was this fun. Right now I’m running uClinux on a soft processor in an FPGA. Right now I get a kernel panic – but still – it is custom hardware with custom software and I can poke at it anywhere in the chain. Well, no time to write here, I’m off to compile my second Linux kernel for the day :-)

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My poor little laptop is feeling busy right now. Synthesizing hardware using Xilinx Platform Studio and compiling a new kernel (for the hardware) in a VMware Player session yeilds good usage of the processor cores. I did not pay for having lots of idle cycles – work harder! (making whip sounds and gesturing wildly over the poor Acer)

>This little Logitech + Cygwin hickup just stole about 16 work hours from me. It is always nice to find a solution, just wish that I found it earlier.