Thomas Capricelli archive
Author: Thomas Capricelli
September 18, 2011
A small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to play with. This is why I have introduced a new frontend, based on Qt, to play/decide about those options. First, […]
May 13, 2011
How to detect Altivec availability on linux/ppc at runtime
It is easy to find information on how to detect the availability of the different SSE instructions sets on the x86 platform.. but this get trickier when you’re looking after AltiVec. This page provide some code and a link explaining why methods based on try and catch exception are bad: http://freevec.org/function/altivec_runtime_detection_linux I did few modifications […]
April 7, 2011
Mercurial mirror for Django stable branch 1.3
Django recently released the 1.3 version, and as such a new ‘stable’ branch was created in subversion. As I did for the 1.2 branch, there’s now a mercurial mirror, following the 1.3 branch. It is updated every (european) night. The 1.2 mirror is not removed, it is still running and maintained. The url for this […]
October 4, 2010
announcing qxv
Well… you know how it is, you get used to a tool, and even if some brand new software is now available, you keep on using this old stuff. In his case, i’m speaking of xv, whose last release was in 1994. It’s still my default viewer for all image formats in my KDE/firefox/whatever settings. […]
September 9, 2010
New mercurial mirror for Django stable branch 1.2
I have tried for the last few years to use one of the mercurial mirrors on bitbucket.org to follow Django. Since far before Django 1.0 was released, I was following trunk, but I have switched to the stable branch around Django 1.1. I’ve always had problems with the mirrors on bitbucket, they seem mostly unmaintained. […]
April 3, 2010
Announcing colibri 1.0 alpha1, a mailing list manager with a django based web interface
It has been more than one year now that I’m running my own mailing list software here at freehackers, and I think it is now time to release a first preview of it. Let me introduce Colibri 1.0 alpha1 Colibri is a free software (GPL), based on python and Django. It’s not feature complete, but […]
January 10, 2010
Playing with clang and Qt
You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome llvm-gcc which binds the gcc C/C++ frontend to the llvm backend. People (mostly Apple) have been […]
November 22, 2009
How to use flex and bison with qmake (my own way)
qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on. Morever qmake supports for lex/yacc has several drawbacks, such as weird naming scheme, and (when using the tricks), dependencies are not building files in […]
November 10, 2009
Wonders from a KDE fan and developer about some KDE design choices
Technologies going forward.. Twenty years ago, I was reading some books about Unix at the local library. By the time, it was really difficult for me to see, touch, or test an actual unix system and reading books was the closest I could get. I remember that among the numerous very good ideas ™ in […]
July 27, 2009
Installing an avr cross compiler in gentoo
One could think that this is as easy as crossdev avr but it is not, so i write here how I did it for future reference, and hopefully this will also be useful to other people. The first problem is that it does not check compatibility between toolchain members (binutils, gcc, …). Understandably, this is […]