One of the things I hate most about GUI toolkits is the layout system. They are so clunky and I always feel like I don't get to have my window laid out how I want. This is true with java (all of my school projects were absolute positioned), wxWidgets, gtk+ (i imagine -- i never got it to work), xul, etc.

Qt has changed my opinion. It's so simple to work with layouts. Even more simple (and in fact, quite amazing) is using layouts with QtDesigner. Every time I have a form, I click a layout button and magically it's exactly how I want. Well, not always exactly, but I know how to get it exactly how I want and it usually does not take long to get it so.

It's unfortunate that Qt is GPL, and from my understanding that means anything I write using Qt must also be GPL. But, I don't understand exactly how the PC-BSD folks managed to keep their stuff BSD-licensed. Any ideas?

I digress. The important thing is that I'm a very stubborn and picky developer and to find a piece of software that I find makes things easier and actually works how I want it to and expect it to -- well it's almost unheard of. Try Qt and QtDesigner.

Forget linux. I tried out Kubuntu and it performed so very poorly. Worse, in fact, than Windows Vista on my grossly underpowered work computer. Here's a breakdown:
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Anyway, forget the last post. Back on Windows. Gonna try and finish stuff.

Well my stupid hard drive died the other day and as a result, I've decided to ditch Windows. So, all of my Windows only projects are canceled. This includes KJ2, but it will be released as is. Unfortunately, I can't even get it to run on my machine, so who knows...

I've thought about redoing it with PyGame or something but it's a lot of work.

Future projects may be licensed GPL cause of Qt's crappy requirements. But it doesn't matter I guess.

Got some free time at work and updated my find and replace script to support unicode more better. Actually, it was cause I tried to use it on a utf-8 encoded file and it choked.

That's it for now.

So my life decided to go from boring to monkey-fuck insane about 2 weeks ago. Things seem to be returning to normal now, but where I'm going to live is kind of up in the air at the moment.

Where I currently live is making me die. Seriously. I've had 3 upper respiratory infections in less than a year. It's not that dirty of a house, but the shower is very poorly ventilated and that just builds up the mold and mildew. The washing machine also seems to be mildewy.

I hadn't originally planned to stay with my group of friends and roommates for another year, but thanks to life getting wild, I'm gonna have to. The thing that sucks is that no one wants to stay in the house we're in. We're trying to get a new place, signed in to a lease, and completely moved in there before June 1st. We don't really know if that will happen for sure and if we don't find out soon enough, our current landlord might not be interested in renewing with us.

So until that gets straightened out. I'm not going to do much with this site. It's very nerve racking, I must say. Hopefully, it'll all work out.