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Qt for Android - setting up development environment

Android is one of the Qt’s supported target platforms, so you can create applications for Android using Qt.

Here I’ll show you how to set-up Qt development environment for Android.

Nasty bug in TfL's contactless terminals

TfL has contactless payment terminals at London’s buses, Underground, and DLR stations. It is a very convenient feature, because you can pay with your contactless bank card (PayPass, payWave, etc), and it is cheaper than buying regular tickets from ticket machine - you just use your card on every mean of transport you need during the day and in the end of the day the system will calculate the total cost (which is usually lower than the price of a standard one-day ticket), just don’t forget to apply your card both when you get on and when you get off the bus/Underground/DLR.

But there is one nasty problem with TfL’s contactless payment terminals.

Startup script in Boot to Qt image

Well, actually this applies to (I guess) any Linux system, but I needed it for Boot to Qt image, so…

Several domains on the same server with Let's Encrypt TLS

So, we have several (3, so far) domains registered for our website (don’t ask me, why). And we need to host our website properly, so there is only one copy of it (obviously), but it should available from any of those domains. And on top of that we want to serve it via HTTPS, so we need a certificate.

In this article I’ll describe what needs to be done for that.

C# / .NET Core, publish to Facebook

I started with Twitter, and today I’ll tell you how I was struggling with publishing to Facebook from C# / .NET Core project. “Struggling” part is totally on the Facebook side. Потому что это, блядь, нечто.

C# / .NET Core, publish to Twitter

We needed to publish updates from our website to various social media. Later I will create posts describing all of them, but right now I’ll tell you how to work with Twitter from C# / .NET Core project.

HTTP debugging proxy on Mac OS

When I was on Windows, I was using Fiddler as a HTTP debugging proxy. After I moved to Mac, I started to look for an alternative.

Free color picker for Mac OS

…that you can make yourself without having any software development skills. Plus some accidental knowledge about colors.

Dark Tower

Весьма достойное кино. И значительно интереснее книг - я бросил читать где-то на пятом томе (невозможная тягомотина). Лютер - отличный Стрелок (вопреки воплям в интернетах). Удивительно видеть крайне низкие оценки на IMDb и всяких хипсторских экспертных сайтах. Я бы вообще поставил 8, но слишком сжато всё сняли, полтора часа это очень мало. Им надо было делать сериал.

Cineworld IMAX London

Last week I was in London and decided to use the opportunity and finally try the IMAX format - I never watched any movie in IMAX. And also last time I went to cinema theatre more than 5 years ago (guess why I stopped), and I wanted to give it one more try.

I chose the Cineworld Leicester Square cinema.