So che non ve ne frega gnente :D
...E d'altronde lo faccio solo per sfogo.
Anche se l'ho gia' detto alla diretta interessata, mi andava di ribadire che
la sera del 24 Feb 2009
e' stata magica.
21 March 2009
Adobe Illustrator (can kiss my shiny metal ass)
Per varie ragioni, mi son trovato a dover usare Adobe Illustrator.
Io solitamente uso Inkscape, un bel programmino che fa piu' o meno il necessario. Certo, non sono un professionista ne' un esperto, ma fa ben piu' di quanto abbia bisogno.
Problema: Illustrator non apre correttamente gli SVG (plain, non quelli estesi) salvati da Inkscape. Ovviamente e' un dramma tutto questo per chi si trova ad usare il mio lavoro, quindi mi sono offerto di scaricarmi la trial di Illustrator e provare a sistemare le cose da me.
Bene. Inkscape: 33MB. Illustrator: 1.4GB.
Imprecazione. Insulti. Illazioni sulla mamma di Adobe.
Vabe', due, 2, ore dopo, scaricato il trial (ovviamente: il downloader di Adobe non funziona, quindi ho dovuto "hackare" il meccanismo e scaricare 2 file: un pacchetto ed un installer) ed installato in 2 passaggi (mah...). Vabe'.
Apro il file plain-SVG. Adobe non deve essere esperta nei messaggi di errore:
Che per me vuol dire:
Cioe' non vuol dire un cavolo. Non e' neanche arabo: e' proprio una frase inutile!
Vabe', guardiamo cosa si vede male.... Praticamente nulla! Mancano due effetti di blur. C'era da aspettarselo.
Tra l'altro: pensate che sia molto diverso l'SVG di inkscape?
NOOOO perche' evidentemente da entrambe le parti sanno usare i namespace di XML :D Ma vabe'.
Ora, ecco quel che ho visto per ora di Illustrator. 1.4GB e $199 per avere:
Capite quant'e' noioso??
Lo capite? Quanto e' noioso??
Capite quant'e' noioso??
Tu hai appreso un concetto, che e' "li". E lui te lo ripropone in altre 2 salse. Inutili e parziali e schifose per altro.
Inoltre e' molto... E' molto... Come dire... Fuorviante come interfaccia. A parte che in Italiano il software e' capibile come fosse in arabo... Ma e' bello perche' ti da l'impressione di fare "Cosi'" e invece stai facendo "Cosa'" perche' "Cosi'" non si puo' fare :D
A parte i filtri e la gestione del colore, mi chiedo perche' il mondo lo usi.
Qualcuno mi illumina?
Qualcuno mi illumina?
Per favore!
(Per favore!)
Stay --sync
Io solitamente uso Inkscape, un bel programmino che fa piu' o meno il necessario. Certo, non sono un professionista ne' un esperto, ma fa ben piu' di quanto abbia bisogno.
Problema: Illustrator non apre correttamente gli SVG (plain, non quelli estesi) salvati da Inkscape. Ovviamente e' un dramma tutto questo per chi si trova ad usare il mio lavoro, quindi mi sono offerto di scaricarmi la trial di Illustrator e provare a sistemare le cose da me.
Bene. Inkscape: 33MB. Illustrator: 1.4GB.
Imprecazione. Insulti. Illazioni sulla mamma di Adobe.
Vabe', due, 2, ore dopo, scaricato il trial (ovviamente: il downloader di Adobe non funziona, quindi ho dovuto "hackare" il meccanismo e scaricare 2 file: un pacchetto ed un installer) ed installato in 2 passaggi (mah...). Vabe'.
Apro il file plain-SVG. Adobe non deve essere esperta nei messaggi di errore:
"S'e' verificato un errore nell'elaborazione dell'aspetto di un oggetto".
Che per me vuol dire:
"Ahg Salab, una famarth salle matha ad un-bert kalem."
Cioe' non vuol dire un cavolo. Non e' neanche arabo: e' proprio una frase inutile!
Vabe', guardiamo cosa si vede male.... Praticamente nulla! Mancano due effetti di blur. C'era da aspettarselo.
Tra l'altro: pensate che sia molto diverso l'SVG di inkscape?
NOOOO perche' evidentemente da entrambe le parti sanno usare i namespace di XML :D Ma vabe'.
Ora, ecco quel che ho visto per ora di Illustrator. 1.4GB e $199 per avere:
- Una interfaccia scrausa (anche se qualcosa lo copierei in inkscape)
- Le stesse funzioni di inkscape (anzi no: i gradienti sugli stroke non si possono fare)
- Una buona gestione del colore
- Un sacco di filtri
Capite quant'e' noioso??
Lo capite? Quanto e' noioso??
Capite quant'e' noioso??
Tu hai appreso un concetto, che e' "li". E lui te lo ripropone in altre 2 salse. Inutili e parziali e schifose per altro.
Inoltre e' molto... E' molto... Come dire... Fuorviante come interfaccia. A parte che in Italiano il software e' capibile come fosse in arabo... Ma e' bello perche' ti da l'impressione di fare "Cosi'" e invece stai facendo "Cosa'" perche' "Cosi'" non si puo' fare :D
A parte i filtri e la gestione del colore, mi chiedo perche' il mondo lo usi.
Qualcuno mi illumina?
Qualcuno mi illumina?
Per favore!
(Per favore!)
Stay --sync
Etichette:
H.C.I.,
Illustrator,
Inkscape,
Italian
12 March 2009
Halleluja!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHksDFHTQI
After 2 hours (-_-') I've managed to compile a Qt4 application with scons... Yes, 2 hours... What a shame. Because I did never read the scons documentation and always used it with it's most basic features.
Tonight I discovered Environments. Very useful. I'm not discussing them, just telling you how I compiled the Qt4 application in a simple way (err, maybe not correct nor portable :P)
First: get qt4 tool.
and put it in the SConstruct directory (actually, you may want to install it in the system. I didn't, but it's just a path matter.)
And now, simply look my SConstruct file:
Actually, there is something wrong here: mocs aren't auto generated (I don't know why, and I'm not willing to find it out), so I've to call it explicitly. When the number of files will grow, I'll try an automatic method :P
And there is another problem, too: the debug. When EnableQt4Modules, you can specify a parameter "debug = True" to enable debugging. The problem is that enabling debugging will call pkg-config with QtModuleX_debug, but in Debian Lenny (yes, I switched to Debian) it seems that aren't present the package info for libqt4-dbg... And this is strange.
Anyway, this is how I did it. Know better ways? Tell me please :D
Stay --sync
p.s. I'm continuing the Combat project, after getting discouraged by ODE, I'll try with Box2D... Doing a bit of code cleaning before trying it.
After 2 hours (-_-') I've managed to compile a Qt4 application with scons... Yes, 2 hours... What a shame. Because I did never read the scons documentation and always used it with it's most basic features.
Tonight I discovered Environments. Very useful. I'm not discussing them, just telling you how I compiled the Qt4 application in a simple way (err, maybe not correct nor portable :P)
First: get qt4 tool.
and put it in the SConstruct directory (actually, you may want to install it in the system. I didn't, but it's just a path matter.)
And now, simply look my SConstruct file:
env = Environment(
CPPPATH = "include/",
CCFLAGS = "-g -Wall -Wextra -ansi",
LINKFLAGS = "-g -Wall -ansi -pedantic",
LIBS = "")
env.Tool("qt4", toolpath=["./"])
env.EnableQt4Modules(['QtCore', 'QtGui'])
mocs = env.Moc4("include/Application.hh")
objs = env.Object(["src/main.cpp"] + mocs)
env.Program("bin/combat", objs)
Actually, there is something wrong here: mocs aren't auto generated (I don't know why, and I'm not willing to find it out), so I've to call it explicitly. When the number of files will grow, I'll try an automatic method :P
And there is another problem, too: the debug. When EnableQt4Modules, you can specify a parameter "debug = True" to enable debugging. The problem is that enabling debugging will call pkg-config with QtModuleX_debug, but in Debian Lenny (yes, I switched to Debian) it seems that aren't present the package info for libqt4-dbg... And this is strange.
Anyway, this is how I did it. Know better ways? Tell me please :D
Stay --sync
p.s. I'm continuing the Combat project, after getting discouraged by ODE, I'll try with Box2D... Doing a bit of code cleaning before trying it.
Etichette:
Combat,
Programming,
Qt,
Scons
06 March 2009
Amarok 2
Am I the only one on this earth thinking that Amarok 2.0 sucks?
Actually... It doesn't, but I think it's not an improvement respect Amarok 1.4
The best thing about 1.4 was the playlist: it was excellent, magnificent. An easy readable list, allowing queuing, sorting by different fields, filtering etc.
The worste thing about 1.4 was the context view. It was totally useless. I always kept it hidden, because *all the info I needed was in the playlist*.
I don't give a damn about the cover, similar songs, the album name...
But what did they do? They put the context view in the middle - as "context" was the "subject": this is a contradiction in terms - and put the playlist aside, as a secondary thing.
I want to listen music, and here are the only 2 sensed use case:
1. There is a song/album/artist that I want to listen
2. I don't want to listen to anything particular
Well, in the first case, the playlist alone would do it.
In the second case, the playlist alone + random would do it. Wanna listen to similar songs or artists or genre? Good: smart playlists. They are all about automation and tastes.
I wonder WHY Amarok 2. 1.4 wasn't good enough? Why such radical redesign? Who said that these improvements would be really improvements??
I don't want to use Amarok 2, but it seems I have to.
Stay --sync
Actually... It doesn't, but I think it's not an improvement respect Amarok 1.4
The best thing about 1.4 was the playlist: it was excellent, magnificent. An easy readable list, allowing queuing, sorting by different fields, filtering etc.
The worste thing about 1.4 was the context view. It was totally useless. I always kept it hidden, because *all the info I needed was in the playlist*.
I don't give a damn about the cover, similar songs, the album name...
But what did they do? They put the context view in the middle - as "context" was the "subject": this is a contradiction in terms - and put the playlist aside, as a secondary thing.
I want to listen music, and here are the only 2 sensed use case:
1. There is a song/album/artist that I want to listen
2. I don't want to listen to anything particular
Well, in the first case, the playlist alone would do it.
In the second case, the playlist alone + random would do it. Wanna listen to similar songs or artists or genre? Good: smart playlists. They are all about automation and tastes.
I wonder WHY Amarok 2. 1.4 wasn't good enough? Why such radical redesign? Who said that these improvements would be really improvements??
I don't want to use Amarok 2, but it seems I have to.
Stay --sync
03 March 2009
Waiting the grammar
Well, Revision 17 will wait a little bit: university got priority for a while.
In addition, 17 is my favorite number, so a very important feature will be implemented:
a parser for context-free grammars.
I must to read again some books, before implementing it, and this will take time. So, don't expect R17 in a short time.
Meanwhile, you can of course try it, play with it, submit patches, bug reports and so on.
PLEEEEEEEASE! I'm so tired of being the only user of my own program! :D
Stay --sync
In addition, 17 is my favorite number, so a very important feature will be implemented:
a parser for context-free grammars.
I must to read again some books, before implementing it, and this will take time. So, don't expect R17 in a short time.
Meanwhile, you can of course try it, play with it, submit patches, bug reports and so on.
PLEEEEEEEASE! I'm so tired of being the only user of my own program! :D
Stay --sync
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