From the monthly archives:
The Qt blog today focuses on a young software engineer from Paris, France who has a rich track record of working in community-based technology groups stretching back to his time as a college student. Jean-Baptiste Kempf is not only a keen advocate of the Qt framework; he is also chairman of VideoLAN, the open source [...]
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Animators and filmmakers are matching Qt with open source 3D rendering engine OGRE to create pioneering animations. Qt is frequently the application framework of choice for developers using the OGRE toolset, with the two used in tandem to build everything from sprawling animated scenes to highly featured facial animation systems. One such system is Frapper. [...]
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This month’s successful rollout of Qt 4.6 was helped hugely by our amazing dev community. As the first major release since we began accepting contributions, we were overwhelmed by the number and quality of the submissions we received. So it goes without saying that we are very grateful. As such, we thought it’d be nice [...]
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Our Qt Everywhere blogs showcase examples of industry leaders using Qt and bring insights straight from the ‘industry floor’ as we examine some of our users and their experiences working with Qt. Today we feature open source visualization experts Kitware, who use the Qt Application and UI framework for open source 3D modeling in high [...]
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Witold Wysota is the subject of our second ‘open road to Qt code’ discussion – a series of interviews that showcases real Qt users and uncovers their amazing work and ideas. Witold is the resident Qt specialist at Arise, a business support software company based in the Warsaw area of Poland. He is also the [...]
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Qt Everywhere is a new series we will run from time to time on this blog. It showcases examples of industry leaders using Qt and gets insights straight from the ‘industry floor’, as we examine some of our users and their experiences working with Qt. Today we are looking at how Linux device leader Xandros [...]
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As we mentioned before, we like development sprints. They are a perfect opportunity for a virtual team to meet in person and simply get stuff done. On the weekend of 28th and 29th November, 17 people met in our headquarters in Oslo to discuss further development of KOffice, the release schedule and improvements to internal [...]
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In a new series we want to run here on this blog, we will be bringing you opinions straight from the ‘industry floor’, as we speak to some of our users about their experiences working with Qt. To kick things off we are speaking with Ms. Cho Eunil, Chief Software Engineer at LG-Nortel. The company [...]
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Since we are surrounded by curious developers, we know well how to bribe them best: give them devices! So we sent Marco Martin a lovely multi-touch tablet PC to write demos for us. So he sat down and came up with some cool – surprise! – multi-touch examples based on the KDE Plasma Desktop running [...]
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In addition to today’s Qt 4.6 release, we have also made available a technology preview package of new Qt APIs. These new Qt APIs not only enable Qt developers to include standard mobile functionality in their applications, but also provide useful application functionality across desktop platforms. Together with the new port to Symbian and upcoming [...]
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As we have spent the last few weeks gearing up for our Qt 4.6 release (details here and here, demos here), I wanted to take the the time to say thanks to all those who have taken the time to help us with this release. You see, this is the first release we have put [...]
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The stir of the Dark Surge (soundtrack name of the Qt 4.6: Trailer, BTW) has awakened Qt-feratu or as we know it, Qt 4.6. Indeed, the pitiful soul of poor application development has once and for all been defeated by the triumphant release of our very own Qt 4.6. Alas, the Qt Trolls in once-called [...]
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