by David Stone on November 30, 2010
Tis the season for many things, including developer competitions. Of note for Qt developers is a MeeGo contest our friends at Intel launched recently as part of their Intel AppUp developer program. The contest aims to find the best articles and blogs written by developers as they create their MeeGo application. There are five categories [...]
by David Stone on November 25, 2010
Qt Creator 2.1 has reached Release Candidate status and is now available for download from qt.nokia.com. The Release Candidate is the last stop before Qt Creator 2.1 reaches final release. As per all of our releases, the Release Candidate is the exact version we intend to release, put out there for you to use as [...]
by David Stone on November 19, 2010
The 2010 MeeGo Conference has just wrapped up in Dublin, and Qt was a big part of the event, with presentations and a special Qt Certification track where attendees could take the Qt Essentials exam to become a Nokia Certified Qt Developer for just 74 Euros. In line with the surge in interest in MeeGo, [...]
by David Stone on November 17, 2010
Just a few hundred kilometres from our Oslo office in the Swedish city of Hagfors sits one of the foremost independent sources of Qt consulting and mentoring, training and add-on products – KDAB. KDAB is a Qt Certified Partner and they’re a nice bunch of guys and girls too. Recently, KDAB and its partners Intevation [...]
by David Stone on November 15, 2010
The 2010 edition of Gulltasten, the Norwegian mobile industry’s highest awards, was held last week and we were pleased to see the Nokia N8 walk away with two major awards – best camera phone of 2010, and best multimedia phone of 2010. We see any win for the N8 as a win for Qt, given [...]
by Henry Haverinen on November 9, 2010
An upgrade to Qt, Qt 4.7.1, and the final release of Qt Mobility 1.1.0 were released today. Both are now available for download. Qt 4.7.1 Qt 4.7.1 is a patch release that addresses several minor issues present in Qt 4.7.0. It also introduces OpenGL support for Symbian. To download it, visit http://get.qt.nokia.com Qt Mobility 1.1.0 [...]
by David Stone on November 3, 2010
We are into day three of Qt Developer Days San Francisco, and we’ll be posting a comprehensive show wrap soon. It has been the biggest and busiest American Qt event ever (context: Two years ago we had 300 developers at this conference. In 2010 we have more than double that number). It has been a [...]
by David Stone on November 1, 2010
Developer Days isn’t the only thing happening in San Francisco this week – a crew of developers from all over the world have been working at our office in San Francisco at a special Qt code sprint organised by Knut and our community team. The sprint follows a collaboration that was held in Munich where [...]