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 David Stone on March 17, 2011
The following post is written by a guest blogger: Digia Plc. Senior Vice President, Mr. Harri Paani Digia’s plan to acquire the Qt Commercial licensing and service business from Nokia has brought up some justifiable questions about the future of Qt from various stakeholders. While we understand the need for us to quickly participate the [...]
by Sebastian Nystrom on March 14, 2011
The planned transaction between Nokia and Digia is an important one for both companies, which will have positive outcomes for Qt and the Qt community, including commercial customers and our employees. It goes without saying that we firmly believe in the merits of this move, however it seems that both companies have had a hard [...]
by Sebastian Nystrom on March 7, 2011
Following last week’s releases of Qt Quick, the new Qt SDK 1.1 beta and Qt 4.7.2, the Qt community will continue to benefit for years to come from further Nokia investment in Qt, primarily focused on areas such as Qt Quick, Qt WebKit and HTLM5 in addition to the ongoing work of improving performance and [...]
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 October 15, 2010
“just back from Qt conference in Munich. An awesome, inspiring 3 days. ..but now am so tired!!! #ilovemyjob #qtdd10” @ben_forster “Qt simply rocks. #qtdd10” @AVGP “#Qt developer days. Day 2: it was an amazing day so far. #qtDD10” @nokia_fan Developer Days Munich has just come to a close, and to say it was a success [...]
by Adam Walhout on September 21, 2010
Your daily social flow made smoother, richer and faster Location based services is one of the fastest growing application areas on the Internet. Flowd – developed by Qt Alliance Partner Digia using Qt Quick – is a mobile location-based social networking and communication service. It is targeted to young, socially active, urban smart phone users. [...]
by Adam Walhout on September 20, 2010
As the momentum to create fresh UI styles with intuitive transition effects and develop new application concepts continues, pre-releases of the Qt Quick high-level user interface technology have been used by companies like Helsinki-headquartered Digia to rapidly prototype new interface concepts that will encourage mobile and embedded device manufacturers to follow the latest development innovations. [...]
by David Stone on August 13, 2010
Developer certification is becoming an increasingly vital part of the Qt ecosystem. Today we present some info on the subject as well as a few updates from the certification area of Qt’s neighbourhood. For those unaware, certification is the process by which Qt developers formalise and prove their skills by taking our examination and becoming [...]
by Katherine Barrios on July 20, 2010
It took a while, but finally, the Qt Ambassador Program makes its introduction to the Qt World. The call for Qt Ambassador applications is now open to all. Yippie! During our first Beta phase of the Qt Ambassador Program via Qtcentre.org, we received 85 applications and have so far accepted 30 ambassadors. Props to the [...]
by Adam Walhout on June 4, 2010
Even though we´re still in beta phase, the interest around Qt Quick – the new Qt UI creation kit – is palpable. Companies and open source projects are picking up Qt Quick and trying it out in all sorts of apps and devices. In this first in a series of articles, we´ll take a look [...]
by David Stone on May 18, 2010
Our friends at Nokia Conversations have put in some great work talking to developers who are using the new Nokia Qt SDK beta to build and port some amazing applications to Nokia devices. The videos feature some of the brains behind applications like Shazam, Wikitude and AccuWeather and are a great demonstration of the potential [...]
by Katherine Barrios on April 22, 2010
Tell us what you think of Qt and enter to win a Nokia N900! It is that simple. As part of our ongoing efforts to better understand our users’ and community’s development needs, we are conducting our annual Qt User Survey. This is your chance to tell us what you think of Qt and what [...]