• Play interactively with Apache Arrow C++ in xeus-cling

   · 17 Dec 2017

  Often, we use pyarrow in a Jupyter Notebook during work. With the xeus-cling kernel, we can also use the C++ APIs directly in an interactive fashion in Jupyter.

• Akka Streams for extracting Wikipedia Articles

   · 24 Feb 2016

  Use Akka Streams as a new technique to extract specific articles from the Wikipedia xml dump into single files without the need to fit all data into RAM.

• Beats Music Support in Tomahawk (and the long journey on how we got there)

   · 18 Jul 2014

  tl;dr: With the latest nightlies (Win, Mac) you can now use your Beats Music Subscription in Tomahawk. To use it just install the Beats Music Resolver. Although Beats has a nice API, supporting it was a though cruise through our underlying multimedia stack.

• How to get global media keys support for Tomahawk in XFCE4

   · 03 Jul 2014

  Although there seems to be no native support for controlling a media player via the MPRIS specification in XFCE, you can still set up global shortcuts to use the media keys on your keyboard to control Tomahawk regardless of which application currently has focus.

• Replace QJson with Qt's own JSON handling in Qt5

   · 29 May 2014

  tl;dr: A simple wrapper to use QJson for Qt4 and the built-in JSON parser for Qt5 so that QJson is not required if built with Qt5: qjson-qt5json-wrapper (MIT-licensed, no #ifdef in your code).