All photos taken at Qt Dev Days 2012 by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Sat 12.08.12 – Here are my notes from the Qt Developer Days 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Per my usual, the notes are a running transcription and…
Tag: programming
DIY Mobile Programming: Get Started with HTML, CSS, and Javascript
“If you can build your app with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, then you probably should.” – @jonathanstark #wdx (via @garazi) Some friends recently asked on Twitter what was the best way to start programming mobile apps with Nokia’s Qt, as they found that it…
DIY Dev: Program or be Programmed
Fifteen years ago, to prove a snotty engineering student wrong who said artists couldn’t make websites, I taught myself in less than 2 hours how to code a website. Ten years ago, I wanted to do more than just write HTML and use Photoshop,…
Hackers and Painters, Re-Read
Project 52 : Week 5 If you haven’t read Paul Graham’s essay “Hackers and Painters” yet, and you are a maker / creator / creative, go read it. I read it about 4 or 5 years ago for the first time and reread it…
Perfectionism and Programming, Where to Stop?
I know it is good to be a DRY, Agile programmer and not repeat yourself, but I have a hard time being “lazy” due to a problem with perfectionism. I have been working on finishing up additions to a web app in PHP that…
The Next Two Weeks: San Francisco, Germany, and London
The next two weeks are going to be very busy with me flitting here there and everywhere for (mostly) business purposes. On Sunday, I will drive up to the Bay Area for some Python Rehab. Actually, I am going to some training but it…
Ada Lovelace Day :: Cousin Lynn
Photo by Ms. Jen at the family Easter lunch 2007. For Ada Lovelace Day, I would like to celebrate the achievements of my Cousin Lynn and the other women of her generation in tech. According to family lore, in the early 1960s, Cousin Lynn…
Guy Fawkes and PHP
Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the new order (the Protestant Ascendency) to return to the old order (Catholicism). Today, I am going to have to blow up the old order (a mishmash of PHP4 & 5) to install the new order (PHP5 with…