As it is, I have found myself reading falavia.nl quite often these days. It’s the blog website of a friend of mine – and his girlfriend. It’s dutch however…

Anyhow, they post about everything, with very amusing stories in there.

So, to all your dutch-speaking people out there: falavia.nl !!

In recent events where I seem to be attracted to the Android development and all quirks around it, I’ve decided to regularly post some updates on that account. In light of that, I also decided to make a new subcategory of “programming” dedicated to the Android OS.

I hope it will all be for the best, RSS feeds for this category only are found here.

As people might know, there used to be a rumour about google working on a “gphone”. However, in reality this proved to be not a phone on its own, but an operating system working on many phones.

At this point android, the name of the phone os created by google, is still in beta stage, and developers have been encouraged to develop software for the android os (With a high price to the winner of some contest). Still, it’s very dark magic for most people (Including me to be fair).

However, I’m subscribed to the mailing list, and today popped op something interesting. Someone able to compile the android os from the source has made a small tutorial on how to do it, step by step.

This might prove handy for many people!!

http://honeypod.blogspot.com/2007/12/compile-android-kernel-from-source.html

In light of the recent python 3000 post I made here, I have been looking for some python-related stuff.

In my search for a good IDE, i stumbled upon the wingware ide, proclaimed to be the best. And I agree! The wingware ide has already helped me understand some python more, and thanks to it’s useful interface, I’m starting to get along with our friend python.

Now, as this ide is normally not free, I should point out that there is a completely free version which everyone can use, but for the price of less features (off course). It’s still nice, and usefull, but the personal (Or even the professional) version are way better. All the differences in features are listed here. And as you can clearly see, wing personal even is significantly better than the free (101) version. However, there are 30-day free trial versions available for the paid ones. Couldn’t hurt to try first!

As this ide is more towards the really professional python programmers, it does not come with a light price. As the professional version costs 179$, for 1 OS, per developer. The personal edition however seems to be well affordable by many, and certainly a coder, the price is (only) 35$, for 1 OS, per developer.

Bottom line: If you intent to pick up some python coding, there is one thing you need: The wingware IDE!! After 30 days you most certainly have learned sufficient python thanks to the handy interface, help, and everything around this ide. And after those 30 days, it’s highly recommended to buy a license. The personal version is fine for most needs.

As it is, I found myself reading an article about how python 3.0 (Also known as, and better known as, python 3000) was going to dump the backwards compatibility. Not really drastic though, because they still offer a conversion tool, and a version to switch in between (python 2.6 will take care of the later).

As I was reading the comments too, I saw that most people don’t think of it as a bad thing. Even though you’re talking about a vast amount of scripts coded in python. Many python scripts are used in linux daily, and the ever-famous zope (And the user of zope, plone, the best cms ever existed). So, this is quite the drastic decision after all.

Nonetheless, I do agree with most people saying that it is more of an improvement than a setback. Mostly examples from the java/C# world were drawn out of the closet to justify their ideas. It is common to compare python with both languages, since the include-like (Call it use, import, using, whatever) element is the same, their power is somewhat the same (Of course python is not as quick, but should not be put away for that! Speed is still good in there, especially speed of development ;) ). So comparison is about justified, and I must say that there is no reason to say why python shouldn’t change to less backwards compatibility. Java has made changes like that, and in .NET 3.5 (If I’m not wrong) C# 3.0 will have quite the less backwards compatibility too. Both offer tho usage of 2 versions in between though, making sure that your every need is filled.

However, I’m no real good python coder, I know the basics, love the language, but something in me keeps stopping me to use it. This might be solved in the new python 3.0 though. I hope so at least. In essence, python is a very good programming/scripting language.

For those wishing to know the details about python 3000 changes: http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

Lets all wait for the newest version in a great programming language!

I was a little bit bored earlier, and decided to go check who has been downloading the nr. 3 ranked dvp files, vista only.
I was pretty amazed, you guys download a bunch of files… Except for mine it seems

Here’s the (bit embarrasing) download count, of files where I do not remember the point in each file:
- dvp.klc has the incredible download count of 1!! (Applaud… CPF FOR GOVERNOR)
- dvp.zip has a bit more on his account, he’s got 3 (The criminal…)

So, I really think we’re going good here, don’t you?

Ah, whatever, seems that all 2 people reading this page, and all 5 people (Probably bots) reading the RSS feeds are not really interested in some bad vista keyboard (Can’t blaim them).

All well to all of you (Including bots, may you run silently without any crashes, you’re all my most favoritable readers),
CPF_

PS: if you ARE human, and you do read this, you’re free to make me feel a bit better :) (Exclude Tim)

As for now, I’m going to promote one of my favorite websites… It’s in the Programming category, so you should get the picture.

Anyhow, here’s something I call heaven (So do they, coincidence?): www.programmersheaven.com

It contains very nice tutorials, articles, code, etc… All of that in a nice interface.
All major programming languages are presented, and even somewhat beyond that.

Every coder should be registered there, check often and gaze into the ways of true knowledge!

With best regards, your blogger,
CPF_

Hi, I’m here to apologize for the recent downtime.

It seems that the server where this beloved website is hosted, was tempered with by a hacker, presumably a php backdoor.
Yet, after all the downtime, it seems that all is up and running again, and hope to see you all here again. (And more)

PS: I seem to be listed third in google when looking for “dvorak programming”. Funny thing though, since I’m not using Vista anymore (for ages now, or at least weeks).

PSS: I will most likely refresh this website from 0 one of these days, please look forward to it (or forget about it)

As it is, I haven’t found any DVP setup out there in the internet.
So, I decided to make them myself.

This is the result of taking the image at http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ and some M$ provided program (found here).

The files are available for download here.

Hope this was of any help.

As it is, I started out a blog of my own. Many will not visit, let alone read any comments, though this might change.

So I started this blog for several reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to use this as my launching place for software, and maybe news. Another reason is because I just wanted one. (And there are others too).
I’ve decided to use the all-known wordpress, simply because it’s the only one I know.
I am -however- writing my own little blog system. Which should’ve been ready by now… -.-”

It is going to be written in my own -acts proud, without any good reason- little ajax-framework QuSmarty which in its turn is more like I took C. Bess’ Ajax For PHP (to be found at www.ajaxforphp.com) and started turning it into something more to my liking.
However, and here’s the sad part, I’ve had a major hdd crash -of the kind that is not restorable, nor could I recover any data.- and my two months of work are gone now. I already had the basics done, incl. my own little session handling stuff due to reasons I might explain if the request comes.

At this point, I decided to still -even though I’m having difficulties trying to find a way in between major frameworks and control of code- continue my work on qusmarty, and rebuild the two months I lost.
So, I’m announcing -microsoft style- the next major release of qusmarty in a week. People interested in current builds can take a look at my testing/developing ground @ www.codercpf.be/_qusmarty.

If there are any questions about QuSmarty, please do not hesitate and ask. Also community feedback is greatly appreciated!