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Where to find packages for my software

If for some inexplicable reason anybody would like to check out any of my software in Ubuntu, just add my PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ilkka/ilkka-ppa

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ilkka/myppa

There’s not much there but I’ll try to push releases there on a regular basis, to get a hang of the workflow if for nothing else.

There’s also a snapshot ppa with, yes, snapshot versions, at ppa:ilkka/snapshot.

QML woes

I’ve been experimenting with Qt Components recently, even though they are very much in a pre-alpha state. I think that QML together with the excellent PySide bindings holds great promise as a crossplatform environment for mobile app development, even more so than Qt + QML, since there’s no need to set up toolchains for compilation and linking. I’m hoping to write many apps in this manner, implementing ideas that I’ve had banging around in my head for a while now. (read more)

Jekyll tag cloud

Having gotten the blog project off the ground and archives working, I decided to tackle the task of creating a tag cloud in Jekyll. (read more)

Hosting a Jekyll blog with extensions on Github

I’ve finally gone and done it, it seems, and started a blog that’s more focused than my previous attempts at Internet wordsmithery. (read more)