2009-05-16 Geek News

Yesterday evening I installed the new Ubuntu 9.04 (Jittery Jaguar or something). It was he easiest installation of an operating system that I've ever experienced. It's not quite where I want it yet (where did compiz go?), but for the first time ever, Ubuntu recognized my wifi. Woot!

This morning I installed VMWare Server on Ubuntu, and then Ubuntu on a VMWare VM. Piece of cake nowadays. Anyone know how I can get my hands on a Windows installer CD/DVD/ISO? Purely scientific, of course. Not for personal gain or anything...

A few days ago I treated myself to the new Qt Creator. I must say, I'm pretty impressed. It's not Visual Studio or Eclipse (the latter I've never used myself), since it does not support re-factoring of any kind. If you want to rename a method, you need to do a global search (and intelligent replace) on the name instead of just doing it and letting the IDE do the heavy lifting. But it is an editor with F1 support and a GUI designer all in one neat little package. It supports shadow builds (put ui_*, moc_*, *.o and stuff into a separate folder to keep src clean), has a debugger and is specifically tailored for the Qt framework.

Have I mentioned that I really love Qt? Platform independent, pretty, signals-and-slots, QSettings, QThread, QProcess, SVG icons, ... awesome!

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In other news, our marriage certificates arrived in the mail last weekend. Courtesy of the bad neighbourhood, the letterboxes are open on the back. It had been raining all weekend, and of course all mail gets soaked to the bones. Or fibers, in that case. Those kiwis... they don't know how to build houses that are comfortable in winter. Fine. But not knowing how to build mailboxes, that's too much.

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It's noon and I'm in bed, blogging via wifi. And I would stay here for the rest of the day, if only I didn't have to go out to mail back my signed contract. What contract, you wonder? I'm glad you asked.
I decided to quit my job at Jade and start to work for Telogis. Instead of a long explanation, here is what I say if people ask me why I did it: "If you have to ask, you won't understand." That is of course not what I said to my boss (my boss's boss to be precise), but I am reluctant to post all those reasons on my blog.

Just one more thing for the record: I don't enjoy being a serial job monogamist. But I am in the lucky position to be good enough so that I can afford to keep on looking for the perfect match. Once I found it, I will have no problem with staying at that same job for the rest of my life.