Tired of searching for a coliseum image to use as background yesterday, I decided to make my own:
… just kidding 
this is an image created using TSP (stands for “Traveling Salesman Problem”) that I found in here.
Pretty cool huh? Nice penguins!! (where are the pengüinos?) 
I was talking with Alosa last week about Python and Evas when he told me something about changing Barbieri’s Virtual Keyboard to understand how does EDC works with Python (and learn more about them both). I took the challenge and here is the first version of a pretty simple Virtual Cellphone Keyboard:
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In a first moment I suffered a little bit with the lack of documentation regarding about EDC (mainly when my Python threads started not working with Edje) but after discovering about the first program ever called (signal “load”) and the hints on Enlightenment homepage explaining the file structure and tags, everything turned cool!
Unfortunately I don’t have a n800 to test what I did but I’m pretty excited about start writing useless things to learn more about Evas, EDC, Python, etc.
[edit] The code is in here, it is kinda dirty I confess, in the first moment I was just aiming to make that work. [/edit]
A few weeks ago I suggested to my team the development of an “All Purpose Wizard” that would work as an usual wizard (graphical interface which you go through interacting and going forward or backward by using its control buttons), that would not be static or need to be recompiled every time you want it to do something else, where you could “plug modules in” or build module collections and call it something.
Everybody accepted the idea and we went to a short brainstorm for the first definitions.
After all, the chosen language for the implementation was Python for the base system (that we called API) and GTK for graphical power (GUI).
We also decided to separate things (API/GUI), this way it will be ways better/easier to implement the GUI using another graphical lib by just extending/using/whatever the API.
Our Python Wizard will accept modules through command line and has a lot of nice features.
We just finished the design (Alosa was responsible for it… write that down, fill the gaps with his ideas, etc. Assuming that I was a pain in the neck, I made him re-write that thing a million times, I was always changing something in the design or disagreeing with his ideas. We kinda hate each other now. ).
I hope that we can make the project (design and code) available for everybody as soon as possible.
Vamos lá… com a mente agora descansada (pff) acho que posso começar a brincar disso aqui.
O que ficou decidido das perguntas do ultimo post? Basicamente nada:
1. Linguagem? Segundo sugestão de uns camaradas do trampo, acho que vou usar o que couber melhor na ocasião.
2. Nada. Mas tudo bem, quando escrever sobre algo técnico vou tentar não enrolar uma corda no pescoço.
3. Ok… as pessoas do trabalho realmente me conhecem como “André Macêdo”. Mas quer saber? Não vou usar meu nome completo, não quero olhar tanto assim pra ele. Vejam um “AM” e saberão que sou eu.
Não devo explicações a ninguém, mas são motivos pra eu ter um blog:
1. Compartilhar descobertas, accomplishments, alegrias, anseios, dúvidas, etc… Talvez um pouco do jeito que eu vejo o mundo.
2. Reconheço que não sou o cara mais sem noção e descolado do mundo, quero ver se “abrindo minhas idéias pra quem quiser ver” eu não “cresço” um pouco.
3. Esperar que uma grande editora publique meus contos para que eu possa ficar rico e famoso, comprar a Globo e mandar acabar com o Domingão do Faustão.
Cool! My first post in my first blog… how exciting! =D
There is still a few things for me to figure out before start burning the fingers in here:
1. Which language should I use? (Portuguese? English? Wingdings?)
2. What can I write in here without being sued by my company?
3. How do my friends knows me? “André Macêdo” is quite popular around. Nobody will know who I really am.