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Let’s say you have a QScrollArea which contains some custom widget. Now, although this widget itself has no use for mouse wheel events, when it’s in your QScrollArea you’d really like for it to grow and shrink in response to the wheel. Or maybe you’d...

Got a Logitech G500 mouse recently and I thought I'd just quickly note my impressions of the mouse and its associated software. First, some background on my previous (non-throwaway) mice to give an idea of what I've used before:
Logitech MX1000: a wireless mouse that had little to no lag in my particular environment, in contrast to:...

If you're using Hg and you want to get hold of a Git repository there is an extension, hg-git, that lets you do this.
On Windows the installation process for this hasn't always been the easiest, as you needed to first install the dulwich Python library (which I always seemed to have trouble doing) and then hg-git. The TortoiseHg guys have made this a lot easier in recent...

I found out from the Life of Andrew blog that there is a new source for Boost information available. It's a Creative Commons licensed book covering a wide range of Boost libraries, some of which are usually under-represented documentation-wise (looking...