Shorten your URLs using Qt
Written on July 30, 2009, by Milot Shala.

In today’s micro-blogging shortening URLs is something necessary because of the character limit on the messages, for example Twitter has the message limit of 140 characters (including spaces), while Facebook has the limit of 160 characters (including spaces), for this reason there are several providers that offer URL shortening services which of course they provide [...]

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It's a plane, It's a train… It's a C++ elaborated type specifier!
Written on June 15, 2009, by Milot Shala.

As we programmers know C++ is very expressive and powerful programming language, sometimes you feel that you have your compiler in your hands and you must teach it how to behave like a little child, and yes, this is true.

These days I am hacking on some random projects in my spare time and I came [...]

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Behind Twithor – Updating Twitter status message using Qt
Written on May 22, 2009, by Milot Shala.

In my earlier post, I’ve introduced to you Twithor, which is a small application that allow users to update their status message on twitter. In this post I will explain Twithor under the hood, how to implement this feature to your application.
For this kind of problem, we will be using QHttp class which provides the [...]

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New Personal Twitter Client
Written on May 1, 2009, by Milot Shala.

I have a Twitter account for some time now but I haven’t used it much because there were times that I forgot that the service exists and that I have an account there. I’ve seen several twitter clients out there but I wanted something smoother and smaller to fit in my desktop in order that [...]

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Explicit and Implicit constructors in C++
Written on April 6, 2009, by Milot Shala.

In this post I will write about explicit and implicit constructors which I find this information very useful while writing code.
Implicit constructors are constructors which can be a part of implicit conversion and explicit constructors cannot be converted implicitly.
I have written a program to demonstrate the behavior. Program contains a class which is kind of [...]

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Changeable constants through a pointer
Written on March 29, 2009, by Milot Shala.

In my projects I very often declare constants because constants, are one of the important parts if you have low memory resources and you know for sure that you will not change the variable later, but somehow people refer to constants as not changeable of course you add more type safety in your code and [...]

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Subclassing Phonon::VideoPlayer for personalization
Written on February 4, 2009, by Milot Shala.

Well it’s a long story with me and my own media players!
I always want to build something from scratch just to learn new things as much as I can. Now I am building a personal Video Player for my own purposes. But I needed a specific behavior of a mouse double click and I found [...]

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Image transformations using Qt and C++
Written on January 21, 2009, by Milot Shala.

I am studying and experimenting with the framework, I ended up writing an application which applies some image transformations on the current image and displays it below the original image. And I thought it would be great to share this information with anyone who is interested in this stuff. Here I will show just one [...]

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Getting all files from subdirectories recursively with C++ using Qt Framework
Written on January 20, 2009, by Milot Shala.

Earlier I wrote a media player in C# using .NET framework, and when it got to listing all files in all subdirectories I wrote an recursive algorithm to get all files from the subdirectories and of course it was a bit slow for a big directory of mp3 files because while reading files I extracted [...]

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