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Have you guys stopped debating systemd like a bunch of morons already? Because I’ve been keeping myself away from the debate a bit: the amount of idiot was just too large for my mind.People who know me...
View ArticleUp next: PADI master diver
A year or so after my PADI rescue, my diving club has convinced me to wake up about twelve times early in the morning on Saturday, to get me trained to become a PADI master diver. The jokers in my club...
View ArticleIn agreement
Surprisingly I’m in agreement with what Richard has to say in this specific context.
View ArticleDnsmasq’s code quality
Had to adapt dnsmasq’s code today. My god, that tiny application has a shitty code quality. I now feel bad knowing that so many systems are depending on this stuff.
View ArticleSecretly reusing my own LRU code
Last week, I secretly reused my own LRU code in the model of the editor of a CNC machine (has truly huge files, needs a statement editor). I rewrote my own code, of course. It’s Qt based, not GLib....
View ArticlePutting an LRU in your code
For the ones who didn’t find the LRU in Tracker’s code (and for the ones who where lazy). Let’s say we will have instances of something called a Statement. Each of those instances is relatively big....
View ArticleVisitor for Klartext
Felt good about explaining my work last time. For no reason. I guess I’m happy, or I no longer feel PGO’s pressure or something. Having to be politically correct all the times, sucks. Making...
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Composition and aggregation to choose memory types in Qt
As we all know has Qt types like QPointer, QSharedPointer and we know about its object trees. So when do we use what? Let’s first go back to school, and remember the difference between composition and...
View ArticleItem isChild of another Item in QML
Damned, QML is inconsistent! Things have a content, data or children. And apparently they can all mean the same thing. So how do we know if something is a child of something else? After a failed...
View ArticleQML coding conventions checker that uses QML parser’s own abstract syntax tree
My colleague Henk Van Der Laak made a interesting tool that checks your code against the QML coding conventions. It uses the internal parser’s abstract syntax tree of Qt 5.6 and a visitor design. It...
View ArticleMVVM, Model View ViewModel, with Qt and QML
In the XAML world it’s very common to use the MVVM pattern. I will explain how to use the technique in a similar way with Qt and QML. The idea is to not have too much code in the view component....
View ArticleHow about …
Next time, I show you how to turn that ViewModel into a Visitor? And then make a view that shows the syntax and outline of a parsed file’s language? How about I turn my blog into the programmers’...
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Composition and aggregation with QObject
Consider these rather simple relationships between classes Continuing on this subject, here are some code examples. Class1 & Class2: Composition An instance of Class1 can not exist without an...
View ArticleLoading truly truly huge text files with a QAbstractListModel
Sometimes people want to do crazy stuff like loading a gigabyte sized plain text file into a Qt view that can handle QAbstractListModel. Like for example a QML ListView. You know, the kind of files you...
View ArticleTruly huge files and the problem of continuous virtual address space
As we all know does mmap, or even worse on Windows CreateFileMapping, need contiguous virtual address space for a given mapping size. That can become a problem when you want to load a file of a...
View ArticleThe clouds
In the East there is a shark which is larger than all other fish. It changes into a bird whose wings are like clouds filling the sky. When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from...
View ArticleFinally took the time to get certificates
Finally took the time to use certificates for codeminded.be and pvanhoof.be. Also the SMTP at mail.codeminded.be should now have a somewhat good TLS situation, too. But of course, whoever needed tell...
View ArticleThe Internet of crap – The Ioc. Now In Store!
Like I mentioned a few months ago, here we are again. More things equals more crap on the Internet. Not more utility. No. More crap. It’s only crap. With lower case ‘c’. The crap of the crap...
View ArticleScrum is (best done) like a soccer team
As a freelancer I saw many companies, many situations and worked with many Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and god knows what names the HR department came up with. What is most...
View ArticleLinux is right now what Linux right now is
It certainly isn’t the desktop. But nonetheless, it’s all over the place.
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