November 13, 2010
Configuring QT Creator to use the Scratchbox toolchain
The post Qt Creator and Scratchbox on Kate Alhola’s Forum Nokia Blog describes how QT Creator and Scratchbox can be made to work together. For those unfamiliar with Scratchbox, it is the primary toolkit for developing and testing applications for Nokia’s Maemo 5 linux OS which runs on their N900 smartphone. QT Creator is the IDE for Nokia’s QT4 framework which can be used to create and compile applications for Windows, Linux, Mac, Symbian OS and Maemo with minimal code changes. The next version of Maemo, Meego, will use QT4 as its primary GUI framework. Meego also is a project ran by the linux foundation merging the core of Maemo and Intel’s linux-based Moblin OS to create a standard linux distrubtion for mobile ARM and x86 devices. Nokia, Intel, and other distributors of Meego devices will develop and release their own own variants of Meego featuring their own GUI’s and proprietary components in addition to the open source core distribution which will likely be terminal only.
In any case, the link at the beginning of this postis a very handy for Maemo developers who work with the QT framework or want to experiment with it and QT developers who wish to explore Maemo application development.
November 5, 2010
Cracking the OV-chipkaart in PC-Active
Today the magazine PC-Active published an article based on the Doe het zelf page of OV-chipkaart.org describing how to crack the encryption on the OV-chipkaart (Dutch public transit card).