Archive for November, 2010


I made it!

Speaking of the AR.Drone, I managed to compile the Android application putting the video feed in asynchronous mode, now it works as a charm as a remote control, while the video feed is amazingly slow…

Definitely the G1 (Dream) is not a suitable device to be receiving raw video from wifi.

My latest purchase, something that I really shouldn’t have bought, the Parrot AR.Drone:

A pretty sturdy, programmable, wi-fi controlled, quad-propeller flying object with cameras and sensors on board.

I had to borrow an iPod to try out the thing, since my Android-powered HTC Dream is a little slow to handle the example application, which is not optimized, and my Linux laptop didn’t want to connect to the drone (Closed wireless NIC drivers being the primary reason), but it flies very nicely, stable and easy, a eleven years old kid could pilot it without crashing… Actually an eleven years old boy (my brother) did fly it; and he – unlike me – avoided crashing…

IDE choosing

I need help in choosing the IDE to use for my PHP / Java programming, I had gone with Eclipse for PHP and NetBeans for Java development, now that both have either possibilities, I really have to drop one, but which one?

The choice being between:

  • Eclipse Helios with
    • PDT (PHP Developer Tools)
    • JDT (Java Developer Tools)
    • WindowBuilder pro (GUI builder)
    • CDT (C/C++ Developer Tools)
  • NetBeans with
    • PHP Module
    • Java Module (with GUI builder integrated)
    • C/C++ Module

The requirements are:

  • The IDE must be completely free, no proprietary licenses wanted, “Eclipse Public License (EPL)” and “Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)” are both good for what I need.
  • The IDE must be cross-platform, I need to use it both on Windows and on Linux, Mac OS is a plus, but not actually needed.
  • Software written with it must be free from their licenses, I need to release both GPL licensed software and proprietary licensed software.
  • It must have a GUI Builder, since I don’t have the time to meddle with pixel by pixel positioning in code.

Which IDE for PHP / Java?

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Changes, again

I’d like to announce that this site will, from now on, be written in English, or at least my approximation of it.

For at least two reasons, a couple of readers from overseas being the main one, and wordpress spell checker being the second one.

Anyone of you could point out that I can switch off or change the spell checker language, but it would be two-three clicks more than I’m willing to do.

And I know, these pointless updates are keeping this blog alive.