I downloaded and built the excellent Qwt widget collection on my Mac. When I built the examples I had trouble getting them to find the libqwt dynamic library. They built and linked just fine, but unless I added the path
Scrape the Times
A few years ago I wrote a little Perl script called ‘timesScraper’ that grabs the top stories from the New York Times’ RSS feeds. The idea was I could use it to download local copies of the day’s news for
Graphing with yEd
I used to render UML graphs using the excellent GraphViz—writing out the graphs in dot formatted files by hand as GraphViz doesn’t have any GUI for graph editing. This worked pretty well until I started needing more fine control over
WordRecorder 1.0 released
WordRecorder was a program I wrote for my friend Matt to help him record hundreds of spoken names for his video e-card site. It’s a pretty specialized program and I doubt more than a handful of people out there will
Xcode 3 doesn’t like projects generated by qmake
When trying to build a Universal version of my WordRecorder app I discovered that I could not view the properties window for my executable target, the project itself, or the project’s SCM options. Xcode gave me the following lovely error:
Two-sided printing in OS X
So a while ago I bought an HP 6800 Inkjet Printer with the double sided printing option. It’s great, but the default HP drivers don’t support the double sided printing, so the extra money spent on that hardware is essentially