C++0x is out. Yay.
Thanks to OSNews, I know that the new standard of C++ is already finalized. Having it at 2008, it doesn’t need to change base to Hex 
Let’s wait for the compilers to catch on (GCC, I’m looking at you). I hope this will bring good news to Rubinius (which nowadays switched to C++ also) as well.
Compiling rubinius c++ VM in Debian lenny
I have a habit to use testing branch of debian. Currently it’s Lenny.
The problem is, gcc package now is version 4.3. The g++ of that version is stricter (being transitioning to C++-0x), emitting errors when compiling rubinius c++ vm. The solution (workaround, actually) is installing the 4.2 versions, then replacing the gcc and g++ symlinks (prvided by gcc and g++ packages, respectively) to point to gcc-4.2 and g++-4.2, respectively. Yes, it’s a hack.
Free and legal Qt4 e-books
I found two links to download free and legal here at linux and friends. Go and download it.
Trying Merkaartor
Today I tried Merkaartor, a mapping application built using Qt 4. Although it can fetch from openstreetmap and upload it again, the site states that it can not save anything to disk yet. Features I miss are satellite / aerial photo (like google maps) and layering.
Sadly, the author said
I cannot make any guarantees if I will improve on this. It started out as a test project to get acquainted with Qt4. I know Qt4 now.
This is a good piece to anyone who wants to extend it.
fetching marble from trunk
Yesterday I read at planetkde about current marble affair. I looks very promising. I fetched it from trunk.
What makes me interested most is the ability to use it as a Qt widget (plugin). Hopefully, I will be able to use it in my future (pro bono) project for people I love.
