Happy Holidays

This is the last post of 2008 - on reflection it's been a rather good year: there have been several posts on this blog worthy of a read (and several that were pure garbage), I've gotten involved in a few more projects (I hope to unveil a new one fairly soon - it's very exciting). Time will tell what 2009 has in store for us!

I'm going to visit family in the UK, and I don't expect I'll be back home before the new year. So, happy holidays to one and all - even if you've decided to work through them!


Cheers,

All BLacks vs. Wales

I don't normally write about sport, but I thought I'd mention that I'm about to start the long drive to Wales to see the match this weekend. My money's on the All Blacks to take the match, but many people have suggested that it may be a close call.

Will post an update upon my return!

EDIT: Well, I'm back. The Rugby was awesome, possibly the best game I've ever seen. I wanted to post a link to a highlights video on YouTube, but it seems no one has posted one yet. Instead, I'll post a video of the initial stand-off between the teams after the Haka. The atmosphere was incredible - a full house (74 thousand strong) all screaming at the top of their lungs. Good fun. Anyway, you can see it here:

Releases Galore!

It would be negligent of me if I did not point out that today several important software releases were made:

The first is the project formerly known as project greenhouse - now known as Qt Creator. I've blogged about this before. You can now download a technical preview. I'm very excited about this - having played with it in it's beta state I can't wait to use it with some of my active projects. Unfortunately I won't be doing any coding this weekend, as I'm off to Switzerland for a long weekend. I'll have to try it out when I get back.

The second big release event today is the Ubuntu family of distributions. That's right, version 8.10 is out now. I'm a kubuntu man myself, so I'll be trying this out after my long weekend as well.

That's all from me - I have several projects in the wings to blog about in the coming weeks, but for now I need to catch some sleep - my taxi arrives at 5:00 AM tomorrow.

Cheers,

TT Dev Days: Here I come!

Just thought I'd let you all know that I'll be attending the Trolltech Developer Days in Munich, Germany. I'm not taking my laptop, so I probably won't update this site while I'm there (not that you'd notice a change in activity levels, right?), but I hope to provide a few details once I get back.


Until then, keep coding!