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Effective Threading Using Qt Introduction Over the years using Qt I’ve seen a lot of difficulty using threads with Qt.

I’ve made my blog and other personal sites SSL only starting today.

This release is a maintenance release of the 0.8.x series and fixes a few critical bugs that could cause Sigil to crash.

This release is a maintenance release of the 0.8.x series and fixes a few critical bugs.

There are two big changes on the KDocker front.

This is part of the Sigil’s website get page.

A bug was opened against KDocker the other day.

Right now Sigil master is in a state of flux.

It was announced today that the Wayland protocol is now done.

As many Sigil users know, Sigil has a WYSIWYG editor portion.

Sigil now has a home page!

With only one day after the 0.8.3 release 0.8.4 is being released.

Introduction One thing I’ve recently noticed (especially with web developers) is they leave off the copyright year entirely.

This is a big maintenance release.

One of the things I put on my Focus ST was a new intercooler.

This is a small bug fix release that mainly address the plugin framework.

The Good Parts I’m a big open source advocate and spend quite a bit of my spare time contributing to various open source projects.

Back in September of this year I completed a big turbo build with a recirc setup.

Sigil 0.8.1 is now available!

Introduction If it’s not obvious I use WordPress for my (this) blog.

Building on Server Side Session Cache in OpenSSL we need to deal with the Client side.

At work (information posed with permission from my employer) we’ve been looking into session caching with OpenSSL.

Recently at work we were looking into Forward Secrecy (FS).

Introduction I’m pleased to announce the availability of Sigil version 0.8.0!

Introduction This past week my big turbo build for my Ford Focus ST was completed!

As I’ve said in previous posts Sigil isn’t dead.

Introduction A very common use of the Lua language (which is a very versatile) is using Lua to extend an application via plugins.

I was looking for a way to use a PlayStation Dual Sock 3 SixAxis controller (that is a mouthful of a name) with my Android phone.

Introduction There are a lot of templating engines to choose from.

Introduction So far I’ve covered wrapping a C library in Lua, writing a Lua module, and calling Lua from C.

Introduction One very useful feature of Lua is how easy it is to work with from C.

Introduction With Lua 5.2 the recommended way to write modules changed.

Introduction An often overlooked feature of Lua is the C API.

The quick start guide is something I’ve been neglecting for quite some time.

At this point Sigil is no longer being actively developed.

Note: This is a post I made on the FocusST.org forum.

This is a small maintenance release of Sigil.

I’ve disabled the issue tracker on both Google Code and GitHub.

Introduction Note this is a post I made on the FocusST.org forum.

Sigil is not dead but it’s development has slowed considerably to the point it’s not being developed very much at this point.

I’m somewhat pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.3.

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.2.

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.1.

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.7.0.

Sigil 0.6.2 is now out.

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.6.1.

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sigil 0.6.0.

Version 4.6 is now available for direct download.

When writing an application that uses plugins sometimes it’s necessary to have the plugin call functions from the application.

Let me start of by saying that KDocker is not dead and I’m not abandoning it.