Although I have just started making it in C, I decided to move my Matrix GLib SDK to Vala. First to learn a new language, and second because it is much easier to write GObject based stuff with it.

For the first step I created a .vapi file from my …

I have recently started creating a GLib implementation of the Matrix.org API. For that, I have created a GObject interface, MatrixAPI, which has as many virtual functions as API calls (which is a lot, and expanding). This way I ended up with the following scenario.

In matrix-api.h I …

I have recently bumped into this article. Naturally, I quickly calculated the FAIL metrics for all my projects (most of them are pretty high). To ease calculation, I made up a small page based on this list (although I have divided the points by 5; I really don’t understand …

I have recently faced a problem, where I had a bunch of SVG files with a large amount of fraction numbers in the path definitions. These images were displayed in small size, so this amount of precision was irrelevant, and these numbers took almost half of my SVG images’ size …

In this post I said I will get through the GLib Makefiles to add an enum type to GLib in a more sophisticated way.

In my other project, SWE-GLib I already used this method. The following two rules in Makefile.am create gswe-enumtypes.h and gswe-enumtypes.c.

gswe_enum_headers = headers-that-contain-enums …

I was a Python hater for a long time, although I can’t really tell why. It didn’t fit in my mind, maybe. I was programming in BASIC, Pascal (none of these would come to my mind now, though), C, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and different shell “languages” like awk …

Few of you may know that I’m interested in astrology. About two months ago I have decided to create an astrologers’ software for the GNOME desktop. Since then, I have contacted Jean-André Santoni, who created a software called Astrognome some years ago. We exchanged some e-mails, and after several …

Today I’ve realised that the name I gave to one of my Symfony 2 bundles should be something else. To rename a bundle, one must do four things (at least).

1. Change the namespace from Vendor\OldBundle to Vendor\NewBundle in every PHP class (sounds like pain? It is…)
2. Change …

Just insert it in your database, feed them two Google coordinates, and you get the distance in kilometres. If you happen to need it in miles, change the constant 12756.200 in the RETURN row to 7922.6 instead.

DELIMITER $$

CREATE FUNCTION `haversine` (lng1 FLOAT, lat1 FLOAT, lng2 FLOAT, lat2 …

I have read several opinions about routing configuration in Symfony. I stayed with annotation based routing as it was convinient for me to see the URL right above the controller action. This was because by just checking the URL, I remembered the controlling code, as they always were fresh ones …