by David Stone on December 23, 2011
You asked for them, waited for them, and we promised they would be worth the wait. Videos of the tech sessions from Qt Developer Days have been encoded and uploaded, and are now available for your viewing pleasure. The link you need is http://developer.qt.nokia.com/videos Use the Qt Developer Days tag on the left side to [...]
by Daniel Kihlberg on December 22, 2011
The year of 2011 ends on a very positive note. The interest in Qt from the software development community is bigger than ever before, allow me to explain. Qt with Qt Quick works more powerfully than ever before, Qt 4.8 libraries are out and initial feedback is really good, on top of this, the preparations [...]
by Daniel Kihlberg on December 22, 2011
Qt Conference in Beijing China is already one of the largest, if not the largest market, when it comes to Qt developers. The growth of Qt usage has been steady and rapid since 2008 across multiple industries. The set top box market in particular is growing very fast and it will be interesting to see [...]
by David Stone on December 20, 2011
Orange Labs UK is a development group that has been working with Qt on mobile web technologies for some years. Some of their project work has turned into popular customer-facing applications like Orange Wednesdays. In 2010, around the time of Qt Quick’s rise to prominence, Orange Labs began a mobile browser project to experiment with [...]
by Daniel Kihlberg on December 15, 2011
Happy Holidays! Today we release the Qt 4.8 libraries for those of you that target Windows, Mac and Linux/X11. The stand-alone download of the Qt 4.8 libraries will be followed, in January, by a full Qt SDK update including the updated Qt 4.8 libraries as well as further improved Symbian and Nokia N9 targets based [...]
by Quim Gil on December 2, 2011
We are impressed by the speed, depth and breath of the response to our call for Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi projects. We have more than 400 candidates for the 400 boards we expect to have as soon as the Raspberry Pi Foundation is ready! The list is growing, and if you have an idea in mind we still [...]
by David Stone on December 2, 2011
It was a first. Jono Bacon’s joke about early Linux user interfaces resembling “Kim Kardashian without makeup” was almost certainly the first ever reference to Ms Kardashian in a Qt keynote. And what’s more, the joke got laughs. So began the Ubuntu Community Manager’s keynote address to the capacity audience at the Hyatt Regency San [...]
by David Stone on December 1, 2011
Qt Developer Days is go! Learning and contributing were on the agenda on the first day of Qt Developer Days San Francisco. Five training tracks provided expert tuition and guidance from Qt partners and Qt’s own engineers to hundreds of training attendees. This interview with training manager Jurgen Bocklage-Ryannel provides insights on how Qt training [...]