I’ve spent most of today at work compiling Qt and PyQt using Visual Studio.NET 2003. I finally got it all done, there are a few caveats like you have to edit your PATH and create shortcuts etc; but it’s nicer than the MinGW solution. I might have a go using VS2005 next 😉 The way I managed it (I couldn’t get it to work the way the PyKDE list said, downloading the MinGW distribution first etc.

Just upgraded this blog, so had to re-install the Widgets plugin (for the calendar) edit the stylesheet (increase font sizes, change alignment) and edit the footer (replace RSS stuff with query timer) at least they scripted the database update!

I’ve just installed Windows 2003 Server R2 under VMWare and Visual Studio 2005 on top of that, my poor laptop’s hard drive is boiling under the heat! I may be buying an extra 512Mb of OCZ-EL PC3200 from KK, which I guess can go in Solo when I rebuild it – 1.5Gb RAM will make VMWare run really nicely 😉 I’ll probably swap the crap RAM from Solo with the other two sticks of OCZ that are in Goliath, so Solo will have three identical sticks.

I had a play at making a C++ app in QtDesigner3 last night, it was relatively straightforward, the only bit of oddness was initialising some pointer or something! The signal handlers were pretty straightforward, and creating a main window form and help dialog box was easy. I should try Qt4 again (I have played with PyQt4, which seems completely different to PyQt3). I also briefly played with Visual Studio 2005 Pro yesterday at work, had a basic Windows.

I had my hair cut, grade 2. Just spoken to Mum, it doesn’t sound like Pip thinks much of La Rochelle…. I did get the bigger hard disk from Scan as a replacement, so I’m dead chuffed. I think I’ll rebuild Greivous and Solo when I get back to France, I can’t be bothered to do it now. I’ve just been playing with Google Earth v4b for Linux, it’s pretty good, nicely accelerated using the NVidia drivers, seems to have less detail than the old v3 for Windows version though – like I can’t see much of Chaillac.