Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto: Prediction

Super-splitting, family law and QT

The Australian government introduced a scheme to split superannuation as part of divorce settlement. And formulae to determine how this should be done.



Makes for some interesting work.

Matt

QT just gets better and better

I always found desktop app development using VC++ 6 and MFC a bit... tedious, especially next to many of the alternatives.

Years and years ago I found VB really easy. Years ago I found Delphi easy. In the last 10 years I've mostly been using Java Swing and I feel I can be very productive without much pain as well.

Well, surprisingly QT is a smooth ride. I never really checked it out until recently but I have to say I really like it.




QT Creator just gets better and better.

Matt

Showing/Hiding Maximize/Minimize buttons on QMdiSubWindow

The documentation for both the API and an example usage is great, but I thought I'd post this Blog Entry in any case because when you go Googling for a problem solution the more chances of finding the answer the better.



Update: Some code text for copy and pasting

QMdiSubWindow *win = new QMdiSubWindow;
win ->setWidget(child);
win ->setWindowTitle("Black Scholes");

Qt::WindowFlags flags;
flags = Qt::WindowMinimizeButtonHint;
win->setWindowFlags( flags );

Matt

Jimmy Walker, The Best Western, and the 'Finger Gun' incident



This is comedy!

Matt

Drupal : Another site up and running - Test Drive the Arts

I'm starting to knock out more and more Drupal work. This one in Drupal 6, with the use of Panels2, Views2 and some Custom Module development. I can't take credit for the graphic design. That was done before I came along.

Drupal : MP3 Music Site using Directory, MP3 Player and LiteJazz

Using the Directory Module


Using the MP3 Player Module


Directory is a great little Drupal Module for setting up directory views. What's great about this latest version is that it is based on Taxonomies. So it's pretty easy to set up Genres for something like music. The next really cool Drupal Module is the MP3 Player module. It in turn uses something else which is pretty cool which is the WordPress Audio Player.

CCK comes in pretty handy when you create your own Content Type and add an audio file as a custom field.

LiteJazz is just a cool Drupal Theme that bundles Suckerfish Menus which is also cool.

This little piece is something very quick and simple but shows off some really cool stuff that can be used with Drupal to do other cool stuff.

Lot of 'cool' in this post....

Matt