Jul 26
What is Maemo Coding Competition?
This competition has been organized by Maemo Community for the Maemo Community. Developer can work to an application and submit it for one of the six categories available: Desktop, System & Utilities, Games, Graphics & Multimedia, Location & Navigation, Other. Another category is available too, and it's for beginner developers. The competition entry has now ended, but voting is open. You can find more information about the competition, in the official wiki page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Coding_Competition_1
How can I vote?
Voting is available using a forum's poll for each category. Every t.m.o. user can give one vote for each category. Here's the complete list of polls:
p.s: I partecipate in the Graphics & Multimedia category with two applications: LastGo and mSoma. Please at least test them and let me know what do you think about!
What is Maemo Coding Competition?
This competition has been organized by Maemo Community for the Maemo Community. Developer can work to an application and submit it for one of the six categories available: Desktop, System & Utilities, Games, Graphics & Multimedia, Location & Navigation, Other. Another category is available too, and it's for beginner developers. The competition entry has now ended, but voting is open. You can find more information about the competition, in the official wiki page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Coding_Competition_1
How can I vote?
Voting is available using a forum's poll for each category. Every t.m.o. user can give one vote for each category. Here's the complete list of polls:
Desktop: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=760304
System & Utilities: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=764039
Games: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58990
Graphics & Multimedia: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=763679
Location & Navigation
Jul 16
While I'm still working to mSoma with Lorenzo Bettini, I decided to start writing another application. I needed to write something from scratch to learn better how to use C++ and Qt libraries, so I decided to write a client for Last.fm service. The application is still in full development, but you can already taste it if you have extras-devel repository enabled on your N900. At the moment it only supports basic radio features: tuning user's radio, playing a song, skipping a song and displaying song informations.
Other basic Last.fm features like scrobbling, marking a song as loved or banned ecc.. are not supported yet, but of course they're planned for the stable release. Please not that the application is still a bit unstable even if it works for normal tasks.
If you are a Last.fm subscriber and you want to test it, please install it from extras-devel repository and send me your feedback.
Note: since it's not allowed to use Last.fm API from a mobile phone (due to API license restrictions) I cannot distribute a valid api key with the application. I'm writing this software mainly to learn C++ and Qt and for the future tablets and netbooks that will be based on MeeGo. If you feel to assume the responsability, you can download the api key file and import it using "Import Api Key" that you can find in the application menu.
While I'm still working to mSoma with Lorenzo Bettini, I decided to start writing another application. I needed to write something from scratch to learn better how to use C++ and Qt libraries, so I decided to write a client for Last.fm service. The application is still in full development, but you can already taste it if you have extras-devel repository enabled on your N900. At the moment it only supports basic radio features: tuning user's radio, playing a song, skipping a song and displaying song informations.
Other basic Last.fm features like scrobbling, marking a song as loved or banned ecc.. are not supported yet, but of course they're planned for the stable release. Please not that the application is still a bit unstable even if it works for normal tasks.
If you are a Last.fm subscriber and you want to test it, please install it from extras-devel repository and send me your feedback.
Note: since it's not allowed to use Last.fm API from a mobile phone (due to API license restrictions) I cann
Jul 03
SomaFM is a streaming radio with near 16 different channels, available for free. Even if it's possible to copy-paste their streaming URLs to N900 Media Player, we (me and Lorenzo Bettini) decided to create a custom application, to make channels switching easier for the end user and to be able to add more features. We decided to take advantage of the new Nokia SDK and write the application in Qt/C++. Source code is available on Gitorious and it's always updated with latest version we're working on. If someone want to test the application, it's available in extras-devel repository ("msoma" under Multimedia section) of N900.
mSoma
The UI is still in development as you can see. The application is already usable, but of course we have to work hard on the user interface. Feel free to test/use it and send us any feedback. If you want to contribute to our project (coders are welcome) please send us a patch with your code or ask us to be added to mSoma development team in Gitorious.
SomaFM is a streaming radio with near 16 different channels, available for free. Even if it's possible to copy-paste their streaming URLs to N900 Media Player, we (me and Lorenzo Bettini) decided to create a custom application, to make channels switching easier for the end user and to be able to add more features. We decided to take advantage of the new Nokia SDK and write the application in Qt/C++. Source code is available on Gitorious and it's always updated with latest version we're working on. If someone want to test the application, it's available in extras-devel repository ("msoma" under Multimedia section) of N900.
The UI is still in development as you can see. The application is already usable, but of course we have to work hard on the user interface. Feel free to test/use it and send us any feedback. If you want to contribute to our project (coders are welcome) please send us a patch with your code or ask us to be added to mSoma development team in Gitorious.
Feb 22
Introduction
My name's Andrea Grandi, I'm italian and I'm a Maemo user/lover/contributor since the Nokia 770. I love Python as development language and few months ago I also gave some contributions to the PyMaemo project.
In these days I had the idea to start writing a Twitter client for Maemo with a precise direction in my mind. I'll try to explain all my reasons here. First of all I've to thank the author of Mauku client. I use it since its first version and I'm quite happy with it. Then, why do I want to write another one?
- Maemo (MeeGo) is moving to Qt and for this reason I'm going to use Qt, while Mauku uses Gtk.
- I'm learning Qt and what is better than writing a complete (but not too complex) application to learn better?
- Mauku is not free as lot of people could think. Reading the source codeyou find this "You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.", while I want to write a client and release it under GPL2 or GPL3 license.
- Mauku is not updated since some months and we have no news about it.
- I love Python and I like to write free software in this language.
- I want to give to Maemo a stronger contribute.
My request for help
Before lot of people start writing their own client resulting in 4-5 twitter clients for Maemo, why don't we join our strength and work to a common project? I'm not a Python expert nor a Qt one, but I've some experience as project/team leader and since this is not a complex project, I would be glad to lead it. So, I'm looking for Python developers, Qt developers, UI designers and whoever want to contribute to this project. I still have to find a good name and logo for this application.
Who want to help me?
Introduction
My name's Andrea Grandi, I'm italian and I'm a Maemo user/lover/contributor since the Nokia 770. I love Python as development language and few months ago I also gave some contributions to the PyMaemo project.
In these days I had the idea to start writing a Twitter client for Maemo with a precise direction in my mind. I'll try to explain all my reasons here. First of all I've to thank the author of Mauku client. I use it since its first version and I'm quite happy with it. Then, why do I want to write another one?
Maemo (MeeGo) is moving to Qt and for this reason I'm going to use Qt, while Mauku uses Gtk.
I'm learning Qt and what is better than writing a complete (but not too complex) application to learn better?
Mauku is not free as lot of people could think. Reading the source codeyou find this "You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.", while I want to write a client and release it under GPL2 or GPL3 license.
Mauku is not updated since some months and we hav
Oct 31
Trolltech ha appena rilasciato la preview release di Qt Creator. Si tratta di un'IDE pensato appositamente per lo sviluppo di applicazioni multi piattaforma tramite Qt e C++.
Tra le funzionalità piu' importanti ci sono sicuramente un'avanzato completamento del codice digitato, l'integrazione con QtDesigner ed il debugger integrato.
Mancano ancora alcune feature che siamo abituati a trovare su altri IDE, come ad esempio l'integrazione con SVN/CVS, templates per il codice sorgente, opzioni di personalizzazione della formattazione ecc... tuttavia l'ambiente promette veramente bene, per essere una preview release. L'architettura a plugin che sta alla base dell'IDE, non esclude che funzionalità di questo tipo possano essere aggiunte in un secondo momento e rese disponibili anche da sviluppatori di terze parti.
Nonostante le librerie Qt stiano prendendo sempre piu' campo nei dispositivi portatili (palmari, cellulari ecc...), non è al momento supportato lo sviluppo di applicazioni per questo tipo di device. E' una funzionalità prevista per le future release, anche se al momento non sono noti i tempi esatti di rilascio.
Al momento è possibile scaricare l'IDE per tutte le principali piattaforme: Windows (Xp e Vista), Linux (32 e 64 bit), OSX. La disponibilità in futuro è però limitata soltanto dalle piattaforme per le quali esiste un porting delle librerie Qt.
La versione definitiva di Qt Creator dovrebbe essere rilasciata poco dopo il rilascio delle Qt 4.5, ovvero entro la prima metà del 2009. Così come le librerie Qt, sara' rilasciato con una licenza GPL compatibile che permettera' di sviluppare sia applicazioni commerciali che opensource.
Trolltech ha appena rilasciato la preview release di Qt Creator. Si tratta di un'IDE pensato appositamente per lo sviluppo di applicazioni multi piattaforma tramite Qt e C++.
Tra le funzionalità piu' importanti ci sono sicuramente un'avanzato completamento del codice digitato, l'integrazione con QtDesigner ed il debugger integrato.
Mancano ancora alcune feature che siamo abituati a trovare su altri IDE, come ad esempio l'integrazione con SVN/CVS, templates per il codice sorgente, opzioni di personalizzazione della formattazione ecc... tuttavia l'ambiente promette veramente bene, per essere una preview release. L'architettura a plugin che sta alla base dell'IDE, non esclude che funzionalità di questo tipo possano essere aggiunte in un secondo momento e rese disponibili anche da sviluppatori di terze parti.
Nonostante le librerie Qt stiano prendendo sempre piu' campo nei dispositivi portatili (palmari, cellulari ecc...), non è al momento supportato lo sviluppo di applicazioni per questo tipo di devi
Oct 01
ControlEee è una piccola applicazione che ho scritto utilizzando Python/Qt4 e che permette di abilitare/disabilitare i dispositivi del bluetooth, della webcam e della wlan su un Asus EeePC.
Installando una versione personalizzata di Linux sugli EeePC (come ad esempio la Ubuntu-eee), non si ha la possibilità di attivare/disattivare questi dispositivi in maniera semplice (è possibile farlo solo da riga di comando) e di conseguenza si rischia di tenere attivate queste periferiche anche se non le utilizziamo, con lo svantaggio di consumare inutilmente piu' batteria di quella di cui abbiamo bisogno.
Non trovando niente di semplice di già pronto in giro, mi sono deciso a scrivere questa utility. Al momento è in hosting presso Google Code e la potete trovare a questo indirizzo: http://code.google.com/p/controleee/
Al momento l'applicazione è stata testata soltanto su un Asus EeePC 901 con la distribuzione Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1, non è quindi garantito il funzionamento anche sugli altri modelli e/o utilizzando altre distribuzioni.
ControlEee è una piccola applicazione che ho scritto utilizzando Python/Qt4 e che permette di abilitare/disabilitare i dispositivi del bluetooth, della webcam e della wlan su un Asus EeePC.
Installando una versione personalizzata di Linux sugli EeePC (come ad esempio la Ubuntu-eee), non si ha la possibilità di attivare/disattivare questi dispositivi in maniera semplice (è possibile farlo solo da riga di comando) e di conseguenza si rischia di tenere attivate queste periferiche anche se non le utilizziamo, con lo svantaggio di consumare inutilmente piu' batteria di quella di cui abbiamo bisogno.
Non trovando niente di semplice di già pronto in giro, mi sono deciso a scrivere questa utility. Al momento è in hosting presso Google Code e la potete trovare a questo indirizzo: http://code.google.com/p/controleee/
Al momento l'applicazione è stata testata soltanto su un Asus EeePC 901 con la distribuzione Ubuntu-eee 8.04.1, non è quindi garantito il funzionamento anche sugli altri modelli e/o utilizz
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