A Free Blackberry weather app. Back in August I upgraded my phone to a Blackberry 8330 “Curve” from Verizon. I was disappointed with many of the free weather applications on offer so I decided to write my own that uses
NWSClient
A weather application for Blackberry that downloads current conditions and forecast information from the US National Weather Service. Features Download License Getting Started Tested Devices How It Works Feature Wishlist Known Problems Older Versions Features For locations in the United
Java for Mac Update 2 leaves some Java Apps broken
This post has been updated, see below This morning I applied Apple’s Java for Mac Update 2 and discovered that it broke my favorite editor and most-used application, jEdit. Other people seem to be having the same problem but there
2D Transforms and QGraphicsScene
QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsItems use the QTransform class to move, scale, shear, and rotate objects in the view. For the most part, this works great. Things get a little tricky when you want to keep track of an item’s rotation in
Using dynamic libraries in Mac OS X
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:
WordRecorder
A super-specialized tool for recording lists of individual words as separate audio files. I created WordRecorder for my friend Matt, who needed a way to record an announcer speaking several hundred names easily without having to trim up the audio