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I have released the first public version of cpu-stat, a command line program which provides CPU usage statistics for Linux systems. Source code is open and available on GitHub.
This tutorial will show you how to use Qt Network and JSON to create a simple Hacker News reader based on the Hacker News API. In particular we will be using high level classes of Qt Network to handle HTTP requests….
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A step by step guide that will show you how to contribute to an open source project on GitHub, one of the most popular and used git repository hosting services.
This tutorial explains how to extract a subdirectory of a git repository and how to make it a submodule or an independent git repository in 8 easy steps.
SDL 2, a cross-platform library for multimedia applications, now offers projects and templates for many platforms, including a XCode project template for iOS which, in theory, should allow you to start to work on your app without wasting any time…
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Second month of development and second status update on Shade, a cross-platform framework for 2D games which will be the core technology of all my next mobile and desktop games.
As anticipated in my previous post, I’m going to post a status update on Shade the last week of every month, so here the first update of the series.
I’ve been working on a new (coding) project for the last few weeks and, even if it’s still in a very early stage, I decided to announce it on my blog. Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you: Shade.
In this post I’m going to show you how to build SDL2 as a static library on Linux using a building tool called SCons. The static library will be used to create a basic program which opens a window, nothing fancy, but…
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SDL 2 doesn’t come with a proper project template for Xcode, so if you’re developing on a Mac for OS X or iOS you need to create one from scratch or you have to reuse an example project provided with…
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