From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Developers are from Mars, Designers are from Venus

by Adam Walhout on March 25, 2010

Building an application requires a combination of skill sets shared between both developers and designers. Bringing the developer-centric world of engineering into balance with the visually-driven world of the designer can be difficult if the right collaborative framework and environment doesn’t exist. Qt Quick has been designed to make Qt more inclusive, more collaborative and [...]

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Sunniwell Co., Ltd, a Beijing-based solution provider of digital multimedia Set-Top Boxes (STBs) has used Qt to build the user interface (UI) for its latest hotel infotainment system. As chic boutique lodgings and four and five star hotels aim to provide the very best in customer service, infotainment services are becoming the must-have ‘digital concierge’ [...]

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Qt Cross-platform now means “on TV” as well!

by Daniel Kihlberg on March 23, 2010

March 2010 seems to be the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) / Set Top Box (STB) global convention month with customers showcasing Qt based UIs at two major exhibitions which now are taking place, CCBN in China and IPTV World Forum in England. We are excited to see that Qt value proposition of providing higher productivity [...]

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Trolls In The Air

by Alexandra Leisse on March 18, 2010

The beginning of March is always a remarkably nasty period in Oslo. It’s no longer really winter but spring hasn’t arrived either. The snow is melting and leaves a gray and sluggish mess on streets and sidewalks that tends to freeze over during the night only to melt again during the following day. So its [...]

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Qt Labs Japan launched

by Aron Kozak on March 16, 2010

For those that have followed our various blogs know that if you are looking for the best technology and in-depth Qt-related content, Qt Labs is the best place to be. Of course one of the potential drawbacks is the fact that Labs is only available in English. Well good news for our friends in Japan: [...]

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If you´ve been using Qt for awhile, you´ve probably noticed our tradition where the Qt Release Manager Jason posts a blog with each release – you´ll find some great examples on Qt Labs.  This has become quite ingrained in our release process, to the point that we claim that the release isn´t truly out until [...]

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Qt In Your Palm

by Alexandra Leisse on March 8, 2010

During Mobile World Congress we came across a neat project started by Darron Black: a Qt port to the Palm Pre. We mentioned it in an earlier post and now it’s time to follow up on this. Darron wrote a detailed blog posting about the reasons for the project and the processes it involved. We’re [...]

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Qt Knut’s got talent!

by Aron Kozak on March 8, 2010

I have been involved with and working for Qt/Trolltech/Nokia for the better part of the last 10 years and in that time I have worked with a lot of talented folks. Granted, many of those people demonstrated their skills at the keyboard creating arguably the best application framework in the world, but every once in [...]

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CampKDE presentations now online

by Alexandra Leisse on March 4, 2010

In January I attended the 2nd CampKDE in San Diego. All presentations have been recorded and I promised to keep you updated on the matter. The videos are now available to all who didn’t have the chance to attend in public. Enjoy the show!

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Qt at Embedded World 2010

by David Stone on March 3, 2010

As Adam revealed yesterday, Qt is at Embedded World in Nurmberg Germany, and we’ve created  a world first – our stand at Embedded World is the only place in the entire world where you can make a coffee, learn to weld AND drive a high speed train at the same time. The C-S welding machine [...]

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Driving Qt in Automotive at Embedded World

by Adam Walhout on March 2, 2010

The Qt team is at Embedded World this week, and among other things, we´re showing off Qt´s capabilities in the automotive industry – especially in the area of UIs for in-vehicle-infotainment (IVI) systems.  If you happen to be driving by the Nürnberg Messe and feel like checking out some Qt-based automotive demos, you´ll find the [...]

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