Monthly Shaarli

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April, 2009

The PyQt4 tutorial

This is a PyQt4 tutorial. The tutorial is suited for beginners and intermediate programmers. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to program non trivial PyQt4 applications.

Font terms survey results | Phinney on Fonts
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I had 315 respondents before I closed off my survey on font terms. In general, the results were along the same lines I would have quessed, but less strong/clear in many areas, and there were a couple of surprises.

high on solder - Blog - Boxee Ubuntu 8.10 Setup

setting up boxee on ubuntu

VGA Tester - On-signal: Projects & Research

The VGA tester is a simple circuit with a microcontroller which shows a test screen on a VGA display

How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X - Ars Technica
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DadaDodo

DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.

How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X - Ars Technica
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Quick IPython tutorial — IPython v0.9.1 documentation
2009/Portada - Hackmeeting
Jargon - Dissociated Press

An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid

Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux - Free Software Foundation

Knowing which hardware devices support GNU/Linux is important not only for practical reasons---you want your hardware to work with the software that you want to use---but also for ethical and political reasons.