Category: Guides


Adobe Edge is the new product form Adobe which will aim to replicate the features of Flash using HTML5 technology. I’m using Adobe Edge to create an animated introduction for a small GWT project and I ended up with the need to execute code at the end of the movie.

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With the new Mac OS X Lion out since a week I decided to upgrade my Mac Book Pro but at that time I didn’t know it will be a little long journey.

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Some weeks ago I read about the Necessitas project on the Qt Labs Blog which let you able to run Qt application on the Android platform. It was very interesting and now I’m going to try it.

My test environment is my Mac Book Pro with Snow Leopard.

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How to setup and compile the latest source code of PySide under Mac OS X
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In this post I’ll show an updated version of the SWIG tutorial to build a Python module on top of a C library which works under Mac OS X.

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The December’s snow and the inability to reach the office gave me the time to explore the way to use an offline revision control system with our subversion repository. My colleague Pedro did some searches before and found Bazaar as the most interesting candidate for this task.
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Testing Qt code with the Python unittest module is simple as ever.

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In this post I’ll show you a simple event dispatcher implementation in Python. Every big UI frameworks can play with events an listener without reinvent the wheel but sometimes you need a very simple way to dispatch and receive events in you application without involve in megabytes of an external framework.

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A couple fo days ago Python 2.7 was release as a first stable release. Looking at the Mac OS X ports I found the new official 64-bit release and I installed it. But now the Qt Python bindings stops working because they are compiled as 32-bit binaries.

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Install PyQt4 in Snow Leopard

New country, new life style, new spoken language and new GUI toolkit ! After 5 years of wxPython toolkit now it’s the time to move to PyQt4. Let’s see how install this GUI toolkit under Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

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