Setting up Eclipse as your IDE for Bitcoin C++ development on MacOSX.

If you are a Java developer used to the productivity levels achieved by working with eclipse’s code navigation, code completion and refactoring tools, it’s worth your time staying in eclipse for any sort of C++ development. This post refers specifically to getting your eclipse environment to work with a particular C++ Open Source project, The […]

How to actually build bitcoin on Mac OSX 10.9.1

First of all, if you have Macports, do yourself a favor and get rid of it. Then make sure you have Homebrew installed and all the packages installed by it up to date. 1. Let’s install all the dependencies for Bitcoin hacking. brew install autoconf automake berkeley-db4 boost miniupnpc openssl pkg-config protobuf qt libtool 2. […]

Demonstrating unfinished aspects of the Microsoft Windows 8.1’s Windows Store experience

For this demo, I’m using a Dell Venue 8 inch tablet with an optional bluetooth keyboard. I’ll present you with a few frustrating use cases that are very non-intuitive and in which regular users would absolutely get lost during the task at hand. 1. When updating apps, it’s very hard to discover how to select […]

First impressions of the Dell Venue 8″ pro running full blown Windows 8.1 (Intel Atom)

Check out the new Dell Venue 8″, this is a pretty cool $300 tablet that runs FULL blown Windows 8.1, so you can use like a full blown desktop. Then if you’re not working, you can take it to the living room, bedroom, couch, wherever and have fun with it like with any other tablet. […]

First Impressions Lenovo Yoga Pro and Windows 8.1 with a 2 in 1 device.

After now almost 2 weeks of heavy duty use of this machine, I must say Windows 8.1 is not fully baked when it comes to its tiled/touch/app store experience, however it’s not the nightmare I expected. The FrostWire 5.7.0. currently circulating on the Internet was built on this machine, the experience was quite pleasant as […]