Got comis­sioned a small job for a cus­tomer:

• Take a form done in an­­cient HTML us­ing dreamweaver.

• Re­­do it in PH­P+MySQL

• Make it work.

• Add val­i­­da­­tion.

• Make it look the same.

Ok, it's not ter­ri­bly hard, but it's not ter­ri­bly sim­ple, ei­ther, spe­cial­ly if you are not all that up­-­to-­date on PH­P.

But hey, us­ing HTM­L_Quick­Forms and Ren­der­er_Table­less, it's kin­da done.

But boy, do I now re­mem­ber how I don't like PH­P!

...noth­ing.

Ok, here's what I have been do­ing:

• Dad­dy work. Lots of it. Fun!

• Ac­­tu­al work. Lots of it. Fun, but not so much!

• Worked a lit­­tle more in RA-Flip. Play/Stop/­­Pause is done. The ed­it­ing mode and open­ing/sav­ing files is pret­­ty much done, so it will be ful­­ly func­­tion­al as soon as I can spend an af­ter­noon in it.

• To­bo­­gan (My slideshow soft­­ware). It works nice­­ly. There are many rough spots and it needs a few fea­­tures:

  • Some way to ed­it the CSS for in­­­di­vid­u­al slides in a nice man­n­er. Like set­t­ing back­­­­­grounds and colours (and not much else)

  • A nice way to save the slideshow so it ends all in a sin­­­gle fold­er.

  • Many UI de­­­tails

  • Docs

  • A site

• Bartle­Blog: it has worked well for me for a long while, since I have been post­ing this blog us­ing it. And re­al­­ly, it's a nice blog, is­n't it? ;-) But of course, there is stuff to be done:

  • Many UI de­­­tails

  • De­­­cent flickr and openo­my up­­­load­­­er­s/­­­man­agers

  • Some ex­­­tra gad­gets I have in mind

  • Docs

  • A site

And that's all I have in mind right now. Ex­cept maybe a graph­i­cal Be­funge in­ter­preter, but that's not re­al­ly im­por­tant ;-)

Some of you may be fa­mil­iar with weird pro­gram­ming lan­guages. Some of you may even know about bidi­men­sion­al lan­guages. Some of you may have seen Flip, where com­pu­ta­tion is per­formed by balls bounc­ing off things.

Now you can see Flip us­ing Qt. My Ra-Flip in­ter­preter. I wrote it in a lark af­ter find­ing out about Flip in Good Math, Bad Math and shares no code with the orig­i­nal, but it's a sim­ple lan­guage ;-)

It's al­most fea­ture-­com­plete. Miss­ing are:

• Lev­­els (to make it three­­d­i­­men­­sion­al)

• In­­put

• Start-stop-­­pause-de­lay con­trols

Here is the manda­to­ry screen­shot:

But that re­al­ly does­n't do it jus­tice, so here's a video:

The fun starts around 35 sec­onds in. The pro­gram prints an in­fi­nite se­ries of even num­bers and stores odd num­bers in a ... I am not sure how to call that. A cir­cuit?

I may think about writ­ing a some­thing-­to-Flip com­pil­er, so you can write your pro­grams in some sort of sim­plis­tic im­per­a­tive lan­guage and then see them as a pin­ball ma­chine.

It may be cute if an artist could spend a few hours mak­ing nicer gad­get­s, be­fore I do it (it won't be pret­ty ;-)

And yes, this is prob­a­bly the most use­less pro­gram writ­ten us­ing Qt, right there with kyes.

• Mon­keyStu­­dio is a rather neat Qt4 IDE.

• Kat­a­pult is a pret­­ty launch­er (but I won­der if it could dis­­­play more than one match as I type­­?).

I will try to write more de­tailed re­views in my co­pi­ous free time

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