Archives for posts with tag: Qt

New Baby

April 1, 09 //
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Today, we added a new member to the family of Qt websites.

Some weeks ago, we had a creative coffee break in the Oslo office with rather bad coffee but nice cookies (did you know that Norwegians make really good cookies?). Sitting on the comfy couches, someone raised the issue (or should I say: challenge?) that we don’t have a place where we can show all the creative and uncommon projects that pop up on blogs and land in our inboxes from time to time. Enter QtOverload!

On this new blog, we want to collect cute little applications, code snippets or screenshots (or whatever else fits) and give credit to the enormous creative potential that our toolkit sets free in cute Qt programmers.

We bet that you have something extra cute sitting on your hard drive or living somewhere in the back of your head. Don’t let it gather dust any longer and send your ideas over to submissions [at] qtoverload [dot] com. We’ll finally give them the attention they deserve!

We’re very excited about this new project and looking forward to your submissions.

Qt Release Madness

März 3, 09 //
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Yummy Cup Cake
Qt 4.5 is out. Did you hear the loud sigh of relief coming all the way from the Troll offices? Now it’s time for cake.

Development has been working hard on this release, it’s packed with new features and it’s the first version to be released under the LGPL. There was a lot of good feedback beforehand and we’re confident that this release is a good one.

Or as Jason puts it on his blog on the labs:

“The 4.5.0 release contains a myriad of new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.  Many of these are a result of the feedback we have received from you, the community of Qt users.  Your continued support and feedback is a big part of what makes Qt such a great product.”

It’s the first time that a complete Qt SDK is out in the wild: it provides developers all they need for cross-platform Qt development in one single binary package and includes the Qt libraries, Qt Creator and the Qt tools. New Qt developers should be finally up and running in no time. Even I managed to install it on my machine and compile a small application.

And take a look at this lovely video on YouTube!

[Update] Eike blogged about the work on Qt Creator and the Qt SDK packages (and some other things). Honoured readers – this way, please

Cuteness!

Dezember 11, 08 //
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Where did the last weeks go? They seem to have passed me unnoticed behind my back…

Exciting things have happened. I spare you the details of the ups and downs I’ve been through like the nerve-wracking waiting for emails and simply pull out the most important news: I joined Qt Software’s marketing team as Web Community Manager three weeks ago.

Being in dark and cold Oslo does need some adaptation but in reward I got really nice colleagues and free access to a wii and a pinball machine. And it actually snowed today!

I will work on increasing the buzz around Qt and FOSS over the web and engage with the communities on the web around us to make them more visible and serve them with fresh news and content. To reach out to as many community members as possible I intend to concentrate on – surpise! – social media.

For the beginning, I put some work into the OSS showcase on our Qt in Use section to promote OpenSource projects using Qt. There is more to come and if you ever stumble upon anything interesting, I might have missed – you know, my day only has 24 hours, too – go ahead and let me know and send me an email to firstname dot lastname at trolltech dot com. And I mean anything!

Oh, and I will definetely go on putting time and work into KDE.