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It's getting pretty late into the summer now, and I predict that the client portion of Knoware will be done by the end of the week. So, outlook good.

Despite my prior C++ coding projects, my course experience here at Case, and even having taught it for a class, I was dreading getting back into it after having been dazzled by Python for the past year. God damn it, I thought, I'm gonna have to find all these libraries for crap like XML parsing, gonna have to re-learn sockets for like the third time, etc. Of course, no one said I had to use C++ — Python even has bindings for both the Qt and KDE libraries. But, I thought, I owe it to the users to slave over a damn solid C++ program.

The only thing I was certain of was using Qt for the GUI, obviously, just like the rest of KDE. And that's when I started getting more surprised every day, even now. What? Qt does XML parsing? It does sockets? It does threads? It can communicate with external processes? I don't even have to use the classic C++ strings, because it does that, too, and like I'd expect? Qt has definitely made getting back into C++ a pleasure. Thanks, Trolltech.

Remember those old Knoware screenshots? I prettied up a few areas with the help of KHTML, finally bringing them to life. Take a look:

If I don't write a post here about statistical results by this time next week, I'm in trouble.