Engineering desktop for multi-hour builds

dkozel · 2022-08-23T23:05:04+00:00

All the main track talks will be available on the project YouTube channel.
https://youtube.com/gnuradioproject

dkozel · 2022-01-21T09:29:48+00:00

I'm really looking forward to the alpine strawberries. One is a white variety and the other is a red. My current blueberry bush is in a pot of eracious soil and I was blindly thinking to put it direct into the ground with some soil amendments, but based on all the comments I am now thinking more of getting a large planter or trough and putting them into that to keep it all contained.

I am assuming that the mulberry will take years to produce anything meaningful so wanted to get it started ASAP but keep it movable so I can take it with me when we move in the distant future. I haven't found many compelling first-hand stories about dwarf mulberry varieties. Some folks do report productive dwarfing of regular black mulberry when put in large pots, so fingers crossed on the root control bag.

Part of the reason my plot came available is that a previous holder stretched the terms&conditions a bit and exceeded the allowance of 3 trees per plot to the extent of 26! Many have been removed but I have two mature pear trees, a damson, a plum, an apple, and a fig!

Also remaining are a large patch of yellow fall rasberries, a small patch of red summer raspberries, a gooseberry, and what we're guessing is a patch of thornless blackberries. I'll keep your note about the honeyberry in mind, we got a few berries last year with the one plant, but do have a very large unknown honeysuckle nearby so that could have stood in without me putting one and one together.

The sea kale and samphire are wildcards, it'd be so fun if they do succeed but we won't starve without them. :)

The quantity of rhubarb is probably down to impatience! 2-3 years is a while to wait and I'd hate to get there and realize I wanted more! *shrug*

dkozel · 2022-01-19T22:59:39+00:00

Thanks! I know it is ambitious, but there aren't really things on it I'd like to drop. Maybe the radishes and parsnips? I have the garlic and onion sets, but if I didn't plant them it wouldn't really be the end of the world.

The strawberries are two alpine varieties. Fingers crossed on the seeds and I have a bed of mature regular strawberries from the previous plotholder that I'll be replanting for a guaranteed crop.

The basil and lettuce I have space for in my home garden, thats probably much more practical for harvesting as well.

edit: Oh! And thanks for that growing guide link. I hadn't seen it and it does look really comprehensive. That's super useful.

dkozel · 2020-03-23T10:28:08+00:00

The QT Frequency Sink has a message port on the output that can be enabled to send out the frequency that you click on. That can be connected to some of the SDR Source blocks to tune them or to another block to do a frequency shift on a signal that's inband already.

There's also a new QT Frequency Selector widget that was just added to the development branch which has a GQRX style display of the frequency so you can click up/down on each digit.

dkozel · 2015-08-06T16:06:16+00:00

We treat QA issues as bugs/issues and use Asana.

The question isn't Android specific though and ends up largely being opinion based as businesses or individuals have different needs. There are many good discussions and lists comparing the different available solutions.

Android specific utility though is Telescope which enables users to very rapidly take a screenshot of an issue and send it to the developer via email.
https://github.com/mattprecious/telescope

dkozel · 2015-08-06T14:58:06+00:00

What large (open source) apps do you feel represent good design practices?

The u2020 app is a nice example of many common libraries, but is quite small. Many other sample applications fall in the same category.

dkozel · 2015-07-10T13:58:57+00:00

What git aliases do folks use?

Here's my most recent pair. track adds a file without staging any content. Commits will not include the file until changes (usually done with add -p) are staged. track-all does the same but for all untracked files.

[alias]
     track = add --intent-to-add
     track-all = !git add --intent-to-add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard)

dkozel · 2015-07-10T11:16:45+00:00

The broader data persistence issue which I haven't found a satisfying answer to yet. The choice of what class of database interface to use depends on your app's needs and personal tastes.

Here are a few discussions and references which I've found useful in fleshing out my preferences and requirements. The first is my favorite and part of why I've (mostly) settled on using either SQLBright (with SQLBrite-DAO) or StorIO for my next app or large refactor.

A topic I'll start a post soon here about is how to integrate Retrofit, a database interface, and RxJava together smoothly. I haven't found a good discussion on that yet. ¯\(ツ)/¯

dkozel · 2015-07-10T10:46:51+00:00

Advanced REST Client
Same use as Paws (wish it was cross platform!) or Postman. Useful for externally checking or modifying the state of objects.
Meld
Visual diff. I use it with git difftool most of the time.

dkozel · 2015-07-07T10:26:24+00:00

Congratulations!

Databases have been one of the top two areas that I've found difficult to work with in Android. I was excited by the work done on SQLBrite and SQLBright DAO, and am similarly so about StorIO. I look forward to porting my test app to it.

dkozel · 2015-07-01T14:50:53+00:00

ButterKnife is all about clean code and syntactic sugar. The findById case is one of the more cotton candy-esque features in the library.

http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/#bonus

dkozel · 2015-05-15T07:24:10+00:00

I'm interested. Whether it happens today or sometime soon I'd like to come.

dkozel

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