Several of my Qt-based applications, including Sonic Visualiser and Tony, have some menu actions attached to single-key shortcuts without a modifier key. Examples include the Space bar to start and stop playback, or the "f" key (without Ctrl, Alt or any other modifier) for zoom-to-fit. While testing the update from Qt 4 to Qt 5.1… Continue reading Single-key menu shortcuts with Qt 5 on OS/X
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The extraordinary success of git(hub)
The previous post, How I developed my git aversion, talked about things that happened in the middle of 2007. That was nearly a year before the launch of github, which launched publicly in April 2008. I know that because I just looked it up. I'm not sure I would have believed it otherwise: git without… Continue reading The extraordinary success of git(hub)
How I developed my git aversion
In the summer of 2007, I switched some of my personal coding projects from the Subversion version control system to git. Git was especially appealing because the network of computers I regularly worked on was quite flat. I did some work on laptops and some on desktops at home and in the office, but for… Continue reading How I developed my git aversion
Conversing with the author of the Yeti programming language
I'm a great fan of the Yeti programming language, a JVM-based functional language which I think offers an irresistible combination of easy, fluent syntax with rigorous typechecking and good interoperability and performance. Yeti is written by one developer, Madis Janson. I dropped him a note with a few questions about the origin of and his… Continue reading Conversing with the author of the Yeti programming language
Yertle: an RDF/Turtle library in Yeti
I wrote a little while back about the Yeti programming language and the most pleasant time I was having with it, learning and re-learning some functional programming idioms. One of the first things I set about writing—because I could think of a use for it and it seemed like a nice thing to make—was a… Continue reading Yertle: an RDF/Turtle library in Yeti
Compiling a program is a strange thing to do
Following my previous post about functional languages, a suspicious reader asked about the list of prerequisites I gave for a language: purely functional, Hindley-Milner typing, compiling to JVM bytecode, blah blah blah. Was that list genuine—or was I by any chance just listing the properties of a language I'd stumbled over at random and decided… Continue reading Compiling a program is a strange thing to do
The Breakfast Post 