February 2009

Shame on me for using the planet like this, but I’m currently looking for a part time / temporary job that I can combine with my studies. I’m a free software hacker (duh) in my spare time, and you can find some patches from me sprinkled about projects such as KOffice, The Gimp, Scribus, libxml2 and FreeBSD.

My previous work experiences are quite varied and include running my own book shop and eventually a book café, working as an IT-technician for a small book publishing company and also being leased out as a programming consultant to other Swedish publishing companies. At the moment I’m studying and doing some part time work as a translator of technical manuals and user interfaces for a Spanish localization company.

I’m an agile worker and good at keeping deadlines and delivering on spec, as well as quickly getting up to speed in large existing code bases in a multitude of programming languages.

If you need an extra hand for your project, or just need an additional part time worker on your staff, please don’t hesitate to contact me! Here’s my CV. I’m not picky about which tools or technologies you want me to work with, or afraid of mundane tasks. And the pay just have to be reasonable, not more

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Phone: +46763091545
E-mail/Skype: elvstone [[at]] gmail.com

Now, everyone who knows me can tell you that I hate cooking. But see, my hate for cooking is actually two-fold, and I think I’ve been making real progress on overcoming of the hatreds. On the one hand, I hate cooking the way most people do. This is a hatred that comes from the boredom of having to come up with something to cook everyday, and then cook it. It’s dreary. The other hatred springs out when I have to cook for other people, and performance anxiety kicks in. The progress I’ve been making involves the first of these two hatreds, and I think it has a lot to do with me becoming a poor student having to come up new ways to use whatever happens to be in my fridge on a given day &emdash; on a shoestring budget.

Today I added another recipe to my repertoire of improvised dishes, and since I’m sitting here digesting it and thinking it’s at least a 7/10, I thought I’d share.

Veggie stuffed potatoes

Stuffed veggie potatoes

3 big potatoes (1 person)

Stuffing

1/2 Carrot
1/2 Red pepper
1/2 Yellow pepper
1/4 Pack of Quornbitar
1/4 Yellow onion
1/2 dl of Cooking cream
1 wedge of garlic
2 pinches of salt
2 pinches of pepper
3 pinches of basil, thyme, oregano or something else
1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of olive oil

Cut the pepper and onion into small pieces. Grate the carrot. Put all the ingredients for the stuffing in a mixer. Season with salt, pepper, garlic, a little bit of lemon juice, a little olive oil and a spice of your choice. I used a mix of French herbs. Run the mixer for a little while, not too long. Chop the top part of the potatoes off to create a lid. Scoop out some of the inside. You can put it in the stuffing if you don’t want to waste it. Fill the potatoes with the stuffing, put in as much as you can. Put the lids on, rub some butter on the top and sprinkle with a little pepper. Cook in the middle of the oven for about 50 minutes. You can pre-boil the potatoes a bit if you want, for a crispier effect. Serve with salad.

Enjoy!

To prevent my poor little blog from feeling completely abandoned, I’m hereby making a little post with a small tip for fellow Qt developers about to subclass one of the abstract base classes in Qt for the first time, who might not know the pure virtuals that needs to be re-implemented like the back of their hands.

In Konqueror, when at the Qt documentation page for the ABC in question; Ctrl+F3, check the Regular expressions option and type (\)|const) = 0 followed by Enter. After that, use F3 and Shift+F3 to search back and forth between the pure virtuals you need to re-implement.

Small and trivial tip, but gave me a reason to blog

Have a nice weekend and happy Valentine’s Day!

PS. Yes the title of this blog is a very lame attempt at a joke. I’m quite proud. DS.

EDIT: I just realized that the function header in the detailed documentation further the page is followed by “[pure virtual]“, which means just searching for “pure virtual” is probably better and kind of moots the point of this whole post.. oh well.