I found out that the ftp.nokia.com do not host the Qt installer sis files anymore, so I decided to try to find them and host them in here. Here are the installers Qt 4.6.3 (gpsp needs these): Nokia S60 5th edition devices: Sony Ericsson Satio devices: Samsung i8910, try the same package as for Satio. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Dev Talk category.
Playing with Boundary’s Application Monitors
Boundary offered free Rasberry Pis for testing their Application Monitors. https://twitter.com/boundary/status/316529581274308608 The Boudanry’s service provides monitors for network traffic. It’s really handy service, if you have a big service with 10+ servers at production, and you’re wondering where the bottlenecks are. Then the monitoring service could save you a lot of trouble. You can instantly see [...]
Using the same users in SMF Forum and WordPress
Lately I have developed our climbing club’s website. My goal was to use the same users in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) and WordPress, so no one would have to remember multiple passwords for one site. For the SMF to WordPress integration I strongly recommend smf2wp plugin https://github.com/jwall149/smf2wp. It creates new WordPress users for every SMF [...]
My Windows 8 / Hyper-V Rant
The new lumia phones are looking really good, and I wanted to develop something for it. I started by porting a cocos2d-x game, and I also won a Lumia 820 with my forum.nokia cocos2d-x porting entry. To develop for wp8 you’ll need the Windows 8 Pro edition. It costs only about 30 EURs, so it’s kind [...]
The Myth of GPL Being Banned in Microsoft Marketplace
There has been a lot of talk about GPL being incompatible with Microsoft market place (as with Apple’s appstore). For example this Arstechnica post from 2011. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/02/windows-phone-marketplace-bans-the-gpl-and-the-app-store-should-too/ I think that this is pretty important topic now with WP8, since we could use so much GPLv2 licensed C++ libraries with our app, that it really hurts to [...]
