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01/01/2008
Hi all. Happy new year!
I know I've been AWOL for a long time, which in my case stands for Away Working Off Line. I'm not flipping burgers but it certainly isn't an IT based job. It just pays a wage and is
coincidentally helping me lose a little weight, which after so many years of working on the computer is something we all have to keep a check on. I am still working on my own projects from time to time but the website is a low priority now. I hope that the last tutorial helped people get started with Qt v4.3.0 and discover the fine QDevelop utility but there may not be a follow up to that tutorial. My new years resolution is to do a major rebuild of this site and to get rid of that unsightly wiki at the bottom of the pages which are so easily spammed. I'd also like to release a few more tutorials some time in the year but there isn't the incentive or drive that there once was. One of the reasons is that the whole graphics and game development scene has inevitably lost that exciting atmosphere that it once had. I'll touch on this more in my
end of year report as well as put forward a few of my personal ideas.
Those that have had a look at the
old news page may also think I've stopped paying attention to the shadow governments,
globalization and the many other major conspiracies like 9/11, but I still keep abreast of what is happening. I just don't think this is the right forum for such discussions. So another resolution of mine is to start a new website which focuses solely on these issues. Though I just can't help but share another document with you which discusses the
Doomsday Seed Vault in the arctic. It is being funded by Bill Gates so it is not entirely off topic. What is most striking, and pure hypocrisy, is that the others funding this seed bank are major GMO seed producers like Monsanto, DuPont and Hi-Bred. And of course, behind any notable conspiracy you'll find the Rockefellers.
Well not all truths are uplifting, but I'd rather be informed than blissfully ignorant. I hope you feel the same way. If you want to experience a real kind of peace try simply turning off the television. The internet is interactive and you can select from so much more than the mindless propaganda coming from the commercial stations.
That's about it for now, take care and I hope you have a wonderful and rewarding new year.
Alan Baylis thegood@australia.edu
30/04/2007
Hi All
I've been taking some time off from the site, as a sort of holiday, but it's good to be back. I've also been working towards creating a terrain editor using the marching cubes algorithm which is keeping me busy. I don't know when it will be completed but in the meantime I will be releasing a series of tutorials on using the Qt C++ toolkit. I've decided to upgrade to the latest version which is still a beta release, though there should be a full release any day now.
To begin the tutorial series I thought the best place to start was with an installation guide. If time permits the next tutorials should follow quickly. They will cover the basics of using Qt with an external IDE called QDevelop, and progress up to creating a full GUI with an OpenGL widget. So until then...
Alan Baylis
thegood@australia.edu
DVD Disk Catalogue v1.0 is a free utility for cataloguing your DVDs, CDs or any disk drive. The program is only available for Windows but a Linux version is on the drawing board. It has been released with the full source code under the GNU General Public License. It was compiled using version 3.3.2 of
Qt Designer from Trolltech.
DVD Disk Catalogue v1.0 - Free Cataloguing Utility
Windows version with source code for Qt v3.3.2:
Download DVD Disk Catalogue for Windows
Deluxe Video Catalogue v1.0 is a free utility for cataloging your Videos and DVDs. Along with the title you can also add extended information about your videos and DVDs that makes for a handy reference when you need it. You can browse the catalogue using the list view or you can navigate the categories using the graphic interface displaying scanned images of your video covers.
The program comes in both Windows and Linux flavours and has been released with the full source code under the GNU General Public License. It was compiled using version 3.3.2 on Windows and 3.3.6 on Linux, thanks again to
Trolltech for their GPL versions of their product.
Deluxe Video Catalogue v1.0 - Free Cataloguing Utility
Windows version with source code for Qt v3.3.2:
Download Deluxe Video Catalogue for Windows
Linux version with source code for Qt v3.3.6:
Download Deluxe Video Catalogue for Linux
ConspiracyWatch - Free Conspiracy Cataloguing Utility
Windows version with source code for Qt v3.3.2:
Download ConspiracyWatch for Windows
Linux version with source code for Qt v3.3.6:
Download ConspiracyWatch for Linux
XML data files:
Main data file 1000 titles (also included in above downloads)
Additional data file 100 NEW titles sent in by ZT (most with links to Google Vids)
Alan Baylis
thegood@australia.edu
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