Zchydem's Blog

If you have read my blog actively, you might have noticed that I haven’t written any technical stuff for a while. The reason for this is that I’m quite busy at work and the spring has arrived here in Finland. The first reason means that I have less time for my blog at the moment. The second reason means that I can spend time outdoors (you know the stuff that you usually do outside like barbecue, digging holes in the ground and put something there to grow, photograph, etc).

I have couple of topics in my head now and I will write something about those asap I have time for that. Oh yes, if you are interesting in Nexus One, I have one for sale:) I might even write couple of photographing related blog articles in my other blog: http://croppikenno.blogspot.com/ which is in Finnish.

Have a nice spring time, enjoy the Sun!

My trip to San Francisco didn’t go as it was planned to go. I guess, at this point, you know that it was because of the volcano in Iceland. In my previous post I wrote how did I spend some time in SF, now I’m telling you how did I get back from there.

San Francisco Skycrapers

I originally supposed to leave from SF on Saturday 17th, but because the ash cloud, my flights were moved to Tuesday 21st. After spending couple of days and waiting for sky and everything to get more clear, I decided to spend Sunday for trying to find my own way back to Europe. At that point it really looked that Paris where my flight suppose to fly, would stay closed as it did. Another thing that didn’t help was the fact that there was a weekend in Finland, meaning that our people were not at work and traveling agency was not open. Spending couple of hours for trying to get what-ever-flight to Europe. Finally I managed to book a flight to Dallas and from there to Madrid. So my plan was to get to the Europe and from there I can try to get what-ever-transportation back to Finland.

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I was in Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2010, but as you probably know, everyone’s is stucked here now. As many of my friends have said, the San Francisco is not the worst place on earth to get stucked. I tried to get a flight to the southern part of Europe this morning, but it was impossible. Update: I manage to get flight to the Madrid for Tuesday. After that I decided to do some work and I wrote an article about the Collaboration Summit. You can read it from here.

Instead of staying the whole day in the hotel room,  I headed to the Fisherman’s Wharf to the Bay area. The weather was nice and I met my new Swedish friends Jonas and Linus there. I’ve been hanging around with these two guys here in SF for couple days now.

Jonas and Linus

The picture above is actually not from the Fisherman’s Wharf, it’s from the Apple Store nearby the Union Square.

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I will go to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2010 in San Francisco next week. I’m especially interested in the following presentations:

• MeeGo: A Free & Standard Linux OS for the Mobile Industry
• MeeGo Work Group
• I have not yet decided what presentations to watch on Friday

Btw, because my trip is payed by my employer I will write at least one blog post to our company’s technology blog (http://www.cybercomchannel.com). I hope to see at least some of my blog readers there. It’s always nice to chit-chat with other nerds. I can’t wait for the next MeeGo Summit and Qt Developer days…

Cu and thanks for reading my blog.

Some time ago I wrote how you can build and run QML applications on N900, but since that I haven’t done anything related to QML, until now. I’m not the only one at the moment who is trying to study how QML works and how you can deploy it in your application. I have always learned by doing, so therefore I decided to write a small application with QML.

I like to photograph and I have missed a good Flickr client for N900, so it was a natural choice to write a small Flickr client. I call it QuickFlickr, naturally:) So here’s the sneak preview of QuickFlickr. On the video I run it on Mac, because it takes too much time to build exactly the same version of Qt and Declarative module that I’m running on my laptop.

The application is far from ready and it lacks of proper graphics and bunch of functionality like uploading local images to the Flickr, but I will work on this app in order to learn more QML. I also managed to improve the performance quite much after I shot this screencast. I’ll add another video where you can see the performance improvement.

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