It's been a while since I've blogged, mostly because of being fairly busy at work (more on that once the refactor branch is done), though I have found time for some work on a couple of C++/Qt hobby projects:

Jerboa's had a fairly major UI change (well, given the amount of UI there is, there's not much to change), and while the toolbar takes up much more space, I think it's better and more consistent. I also got around to making a DMG for mac users (windows users: MSI coming soon, builds and works fine though - linux users: cmake/qt4.4 from source). I've still not managed to hit my feature plan for 0.3 yet - when it's done ¬_¬.

I've also been working on a typing game, called TypoFail - only source so far for it though, and a screenshot or two:

The first is a clone of the amazing timewaster TypeRacer, though without the lag issues that annoy me over wireless; the latter is a clone of the venerable 'typespeed' game.

In the first mode, you type the quote as quickly as possible, and your score is your WPM. In TypeSpeed mode, your score is the number of characters in complete words you typed before you fail (10 words reaching the right hand edge of the field is a failure).

The game supports multiplayer (and pops up mini game windows showing your opponent's state), though requires a manually set-up standalone server at the moment. One neat thing about the quotes mode is that it reads fortune-format files, so you can easily load up whatever quotes you like - it'll even recognize ones which look like a dictation/IRC log:

Both of these applications are pure Qt4, and work fine on Windows, Linux, and OSX - though TypoFail's networking requires JsonQt, which it contains in a git submodule.