Summer Grab Bag

To better support the embedded market, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now offers the Compute Module (3), a Raspberry Pi in a more flexible form factor intended for industrial applications.

Retrocomputing: Motif and CDE

Introduction

In this blog post, we'll look at a couple of older graphical user interface toolkits that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Raspberry Pi Camera Module

In this post we'll look at the Raspberry Pi camera module, a low cost hardwar module that supports still picture and video recording.

Building Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi

This is a HOW TO guide for building Qt 5 for the the Raspberry Pi, and building and deploying Qt 5 apps using Qt Creator.

Another Name Change

PhoneGap, recently renamed to Apache Callback, is now being renamed as Apache Cordova.

Marketing Push

This week we did some marketing to promote the project. All of this effort stimulated some good discussion on the blogs and callback developer mailing list.

Repos Moving

This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version). Compass and Accelerometer are done and some of Events was implemented. Notification is done as is most of File support and we are starting work on Contacts and Camera.

Note that I am going to start consistently using the name Cordova rather than Callback orPhoneGap for this project.

Move to QML

Since the last posting we properly set up deployment of Cordova Qt for MeeGo Harmattan (e.g. the Nokia N9 phone). We also got Qt 5 packages including WebKit built for MeeGo Harmattan and tested it on a Nokia N9. Incidently, a big PR1.2 software update rolled out this week for MeeGo Harmattan phones.

Odds 'n Ends

Throughout this project one thing that has been constantly changing has been the source code repositories, both due to several project names changes and with the move to being run as an Apache project.