Declaration of VAR

Changing country for iTunes Store

So, I decided to change the country in iTunes Store (from Russia to United States). This process turned out to be not so easy as it seemed to be.

Спасибо, Аппл Мужик

Добавил себе на днях в плейлист пару ГЕНИАЛЬНЫХ ТРЕКОВ БОЛЬШОГО РУССКОГО БОССА, ЧТОБЫ УСЛАЖДАТЬ СВОИ ПЛЕБЕЙСКИЕ УШИ БОЖЕСТВЕННЫМ ГОЛОСОМ ВЕЛИЧАЙШЕГО, ХОТЬ И НЕ В СОСТОЯНИИ ПОНЯТЬ ДАЖЕ ДЕСЯТОЙ ЧАСТИ ГЛУБОЧАЙШЕГО СМЫСЛА ЕГО ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ.

British Airways in 2017

British Airways is definitely not aware that it is 2017 already.

Updating iOS and Android to the latest version

This morning I had 3 tablets on my table:

• iPad Air (2013);
• Nexus 10 from Samsung (2012);
• Nexus 7 from Asus (2013).

All of them had obsolete versions of operating system (iOS and Android). And I tried to bring them up-to-date.

Issues with WordPress after upgrading Ubuntu to 16.04

So, I finally decided to stop ignoring warnings about obsolete Ubuntu version on my server and upgrade it from 14.04 to 16.04. Right after the upgrade my website on WordPress stopped working.

How to get the context of translation in Qt Linguist

In addition to my previous article about translating a QML application, I want to show you how translators can understand the context of strings they translate in Qt Linguist.

Mac OS service for displaying biggest files in the directory

Having solved the problem of locating the biggest files in a folder, I decided to create a service that would do the same in Finder, showing results in a dialog window.

Documenting a Qt project with QDoc

When I needed to generate documentation for my projects, I used Doxygen. It’s a quite useful tool that parses specially formated comments in your project’s source code to produce documentation pages for it. Mostly I used it to document my Qt projects.

To my shame, I didn’t know that Qt has such a tool out-of-the-box - it is the QDoc. In this article I’ll show you how to document a custom QML type (Qt Quick control) with QDoc and also how to make the result look a bit less dull.

Creating a Telegram IV template for a blog on Octopress

Today Telegram announced Instant Views for Everyone. Instant View (IV) has appeared about half a year ago, and back then I was asking about how can we prepare our web-pages to support it, but I never got the answer. And now I see why - there is really no need to do anything on your side - you just need to create a special rule (template) for IV parser at the Instant View Platform.

For those, who (like me) has an Octopress-based blog, it is an extremely easy thing to do.

Slack says that my Chrome is obsolete

If Slack in your Chrome suddenly started to show you warnings about not supported browser, and your browser is definitely up-to-date, then check the Spoof User-Agent list in uMatrix settings - most probably you have some obsolete agents there.