Mateusz Loskot

A few days ago I moved from GNOME to smaller and faster desktop environment called Xfce. GNOME is still my favourite desktop but it runs quite slowly even on new laptop with AMD64 Turion CPU and 512 MB of RAM. So, as a GTK+ based UI fan, I found Xfce a very good replacement OF GNOME - a tiny GNOME. Usually, I prefer to be able to check newest features of software I use, so I decided to use development version of Xfce, available in the Xfce Subversion repository.

Yesterday, I wrote a small utility to control updating and building private sandboxes of Xfce modules. This is a small script I called xfce-svn-builder.sh. It can be used to do first checkout of Xfce sources. After all required modules are downloaded, the builder script can run all targets - update - clean - configure - build - install - with just a single command.

The complete story together with usage instructions and download link can be found in the Scripts section, on the xfce-svn-builder dedicated page.

Yesterday, I started small series of articles dedicated for Quantum GIS developers which want to work on Windows and use Visual C++ 2005 IDE to develop QGIS. The first article is devoted to QT compilation. Next, I’ll try to explain process of building Quantum GIS using VC++ 2005.

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After Microsoft released Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition developers started to find a way how they can use Windows Template Library with that free IDE and compiler. There were conducted many investigations. The results can be found on WTL or MSDN forums so as you can see the answer is Yes, you can use WTL with VC++ 2005 Express Edition. Great!

So, to make the solution available to more WTL users Baryon Lee has published a very nice article - Using WTL with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition - in which he explains complete procedure of how to install and use WTL with VC++ 2005 Express Edition.

Note: Here you can find Windows Template Library Shared Source Licensing Program

How do you think, what kind of sounds will you hear emitted from Windows Vista?
Is it going to be Rock’N'Roll, Progressive rock or Classical? I’d love to hear Trash Metal when deleting a file ,-).

It seems everything is possbile, especially when those sounds will be played by Robert Fripp - guitarist and the founder of Kind Crimson. So, it’s even possible Vista will play Math Rock, whatever it is.

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Today, I encoutered a very new for me Web gadget - blog-like interaface to wtl@yahoogroups.com - Windows Template Library support list. It’s really cool! It also provides RSS feed to WTL list, so now I can add it as a channel to my Thunderbird aggregator.

At once, I found WTL list is also available through GMANE gate, by HTTP or NNTP. Shame on me! It’s there since June 5, 2003. Better Later than Never :-)

Here it is http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.wtl

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