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FISL 14
I just arrived at Porto Alegre for FISL. The atmosphere here is great, I just realized how much I missed this feeling. In a couple of hours I will give a talk about social games and the FLOSS-based infrastructure that is used to develop and deploy them. So it is not a KDE talk: I […]
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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 used on schools: it must work online and partly offline as well. And it has […]
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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 Brazil. Initially I was going to talk only to the students of the digital games […]
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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 title is “Jogos sociais e software livre – como se planejar para 80 milhões de […]
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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 published via Shockwave. The global Director developers community was composed of 300,000+ professionals, not counting […]
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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 schedule just yet I would like to keep the blog minimally updated 🙂 QtGStreamer had […]
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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 were 8 areas, including robotics, games, science, security and others. I talked at the Free […]
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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 the move to freedesktop.org last week we were kept busy with code. George merged his […]
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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 has been busy with a redesign of the QGlib::Value system that makes it really convenient […]
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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 started to work on some refactoring for our refCounted object, with an eye on addressing […]