by David Stone on November 25, 2011
As a result of our close cooperation with the platform software teams from leading system on chip (SoC) manufacturers, detailed developer guides, in the form of hardware-specific Qt “mkspecs” , have now been created and added to the publicly accessible Qt Gitorious repository. These precise guides are designed to ease the usually complex and time-consuming [...]
by Knut Yrvin on May 25, 2011
A bit over a week ago we sent four projects that had been submitted to the new community sponsorship program the happy message – “yes, your project got sponsorship”. The projects and communities that were successful are: 1. Akademy-es 2011 in Spain. Akademy-es is a KDE developer event focusing on contributors and users. It is [...]
by Kevin Franklin on April 15, 2011
We are celebrating with discounts on ALL exams! Since the Qt certification program was launched 18 months ago, it has gained a tremendous amount of recognition and credibility within the community. Several Qt partners now have a policy that all their developers must be Qt certified, and will only employ people who have obtained the [...]
by Knut Yrvin on April 12, 2011
The fourth North American KDE conference has just concluded in San Francisco. Held in co-location with the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, more than 45 free software developers joined the camp, participating at 16 interesting talks. I will highlight some of the interesting topics, including a link to all the recorded talks. Jim Zemlin from Linux [...]
by Knut Yrvin on March 29, 2011
Qt Development Frameworks has sponsored community projects since Trolltech was founded 15 years ago. The biggest contribution we make to the community is Qt itself – with open source access – starting with version 0.9 in 1995. Much has happened since that humble start. Now we sponsor a lot of different community projects, from code [...]
by David Stone on March 24, 2011
The latest version of Qt Creator, Qt Creator 2.2, made it to beta release today. To read all about it, Eike has the scoop over on Qt Labs. Here is the short version of the story. Qt Creator 2.2 contains some big (beta) fixes to Qt Creator 2.1, and also some very useful new features [...]
by David Stone on March 4, 2011
We know a lot of you are interested in PySide, the set of LGPL-licensed bindings that tie Python to Qt. We know because PySide is the number one wiki topic on Qt Developer Network. The news today for Qt + Python enthusiasts is good – PySide, the LGPL set of bindings for Qt and Python [...]
by Hanne Linaae on January 17, 2011
It is finally there – out on the web! What is finally there, you ask? – The Qt in Education course material! This is material we have been working on for.. well, quite some time. And now I am proud to let you know that it is out there – and available for use by [...]
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 David Stone on December 1, 2009
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 [...]
by Henry Haverinen on October 21, 2009
Hi everyone, and welcome to this new Qt blog on my behalf, too! Most of you have probably noticed that we recently released the Qt 4.6 beta release. As you would imagine, we look forward to the next iteration of the Qt framework with all the anticipation of a child on the night before Christmas. [...]