I participated in BarCamp Tampere 2 recently, and one of the many very interesting presentations was Ville Ranki talking about Siilihai, a web forum reader app intentionally very reminiscent of newsreaders of old. Siilihai scrapes the content from web forums and presents it as threaded conversations so that it’s easier to… (read more)
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)
