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Well, three days ago I finally reached a milestone on version 0.7 - it actually started compiling. Not working, just compiling. The major new feature this time round is multiple accounts, a feature which has been requested by others and which I need myself, and now the job is fixing all the bugs. Do you use QTM? Can you program in C++ with Qt 4? I need your help. Read more »

This week I took the decision to start using Sharesource, a free hosting service for open-source software, based in France (so I can gather); the project base at Sharesource can be found here. My main motivation for this was to try out their source-code management (more on that in a minute), but to be honest, I have found the slowness of SourceForge rather annoying recently. I suspect that there are simply too many projects on it, being as it is what people think of when they think of project hosting. Sharesource seems very well-designed, it's fast, and it also offers screenshot hosting which do not require the screenshots to be a maximum of 640x480 - let's face it, nowadays only PDAs have screens with that resolution, and my QTM windows, never mind my screen, are invariably bigger than that. So, I have uploaded some new screenshots, which you can find in the Links panel. Read more »

While the release of most of the new packages is being held up by the problems with the SourceForge file release system (a bug report has been filed, but it's gone quiet the last few days), I have got my Ubuntu package repository up and running. It now contains packages of QTM for the i386, AMD64 and LPIA architectures (the last being a low-power Intel chip used for mobile devices) but not for PowerPC, support for which on Ubuntu stopped a couple of years ago.

You will need to add this line to your APT sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/indigojo/ubuntu hardy main

This can be done by manually editing the file or in Synaptic (Settings menu > Repositories > Third Party Software; click Reload after you close the Repositories box). I have a package for Gutsy as well that I built myself, but its release will have to wait until SourceForge is back up. Read more »

In response to a matter which came up on the KDE Apps page, Blogger no longer supports the old Blogger API, which means that QTM can no longer access your blog if it is based on Blogger. They have since issued a new "GData API", which does not use XML-RPC, which means that support for Blogger is a while off yet. QTM can still be used to access blogs based on Movable Type, Wordpress, Drupal and other content management systems which continue to support XML-RPC.

Yesterday I discovered that QTM had been featured on the Linux Format cover disc (edition 93, along with Startcom Enterprise Linux), one of three internet applications alongside Nvu (the Mozilla-based HTML editor) and the IRC client XChat. The version included was 0.5, the first to feature Quickpost templates, but not the latest version. I'm not sure if it was my email to them which prompted that or if they are just tracking this project; they included an earlier version way back in 2006. Read more »