Author Archives: Mauricio Piacentini

HTML5 apps on all platforms: can Qt help?

A couple of questions for my dear Qt friends: after a long winter, mostly devoted to building and deploying HTML5 games and educational apps, I find myself evaluating Qt again for a big project… It is an app to be … Continue reading

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Talk about open source games at PUC-SP

Hi. Yesterday I talked a little bit about open source games and educational apps at the “Semana Acadêmica PUC-SP”. This is a week-long event promoted by the computer science and digital games departments of one of the top universities in … Continue reading

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FISL12 and social games

Next week I will be at Porto Alegre for FISL. It will be nice to meet the old friends, and I am looking forward for the new ones as well. My talk will be on Thursday, June 30th, 10:00AM. The … Continue reading

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Elop is after me

Back in 2005, my small company had an active customer base of more than 15,000 developers using our plugins. These were extensions (Xtras) for Macromedia Director, at the time the number one tool for authoring of CD-ROM and online games … Continue reading

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Update on QtGStreamer

Due to personal issues I have not been able to be online much or work for the past two months. Things are starting to settle now, and while I am still not able to return to a full time work … Continue reading

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KDE at Campus Party BR

Yesterday I gave a talk at Campus Party BR. Lots of people there (over 6800 registered campers according to the site). But it is a very different environment compared with the free software conferences I am used to attend. There … Continue reading

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Last week in QtGStreamer – week 9

Well, this week’s report is brief, and more technical. But first I would like to congratulate the GStreamer community for making 0.10.31 available. This is the version we are tracking for our initial stable release of QtGStreamer as well. After … Continue reading

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Last week in QtGStreamer – week 8

This was a very productive week for the project, with a lot of of activity moving us closer to a first stable release. I worked mostly on refactoring the mechanism that tracks reference counts for miniobjects and caps, while George … Continue reading

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Last week in QtGStreamer – week 7

This week George merged some of the patches I have been working on to the QtGStreamer master repository, including support for Events. (*) He also wrote and committed a bunch of bugfixes and some improvements to the build files. I … Continue reading

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Last week in QtGStreamer – a recap (and an overview of GStreamer)

This is inspired by the ‘Last week in Krita’ and ‘Last week in KOffice’ series. Boud, the author of these series, mentioned that this is a nice way to “keep everyone who is interested, developers, contributors, users — everyone — … Continue reading

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