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There are days when I do something quite interesting and in my mind I can almost see myself on a stage in tight, tight spandex pants, long hair, perm, cowboy boots yelling angrily “are you ready to roock?!”. People cheering, babies laughing, women throwing their bra’s on the stage. It’s poetic. Then I remember that […]

As we all know, connecting to the signals of a QObject from QtScript code is trivial; for example bossButton.clicked.connect(function() { desktop.showFakeSpreadSheet(); employee.grin(); } ); However, what if you don’t intend to expose your QObject to script code? Let’s say you got this crazy idea, that you only intend for scripters to be able to code […]

After a long dormancy, (the last qtopia snapshots available were from the 1.6 series), I am pleased to say that Qtopia snapshots have returned! They are available for the 4 series from here: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qtopia/snapshots As with Qtopia 4 series source code, these packages contain everything to compile Qtopia and all Trolltech’s tools needed for developing […]

Before boarding a flight I’m eagerly awaiting the security presentation that is about to ensue. I figure that these people spent their valuable time learning how to point to the ground, back, forward and to the side and someone needs to appreciate that effort. During my last flight I even went ahead and tried to […]

In case you wondered why I – again – didn’t make it to aKademy, here you go: Our daughter Helen was born on June 16. Here’s the obligatory screenshot: She looks like an angel, and she totally is one. So far we had a fantastic time, and it’s getting better every day. Getting a daughter […]

Trolltech is about to release its development tools as Qt Eclipse Integration. Here is a short introduction in Q&A style to what it is and how you can start hacking, today, plus a few screenshots. About What is Eclipse? Many people think of it as just a Java IDE. But Eclipse is a plugin-based platform […]

A common question I get when I’m doing talks on Qt Jambi is how well it plays with other toolkits, specifically Swing and AWT. There’s a lot of code out there written in either or both, and people who want to port their projects to Jambi or build new components on top of existing legacy […]

While others are touting about their linux phone stuff as being “the future”, and “the first open source Linux phone”, Trolltech has the future and the worlds first open source Linux phone right now. Qtopia Greenphone! You can make phone calls, send SMS messages, AND easily add your own customized functionality, right now!. (they would […]

Like many other geeky people I’ve spent the last week in Scotland. The insane abundance of overgrown egos caused wrinkles at the very fabric of weather conditions in Glasgow and it rained the whole week. It happened to be my second birthday in a row that I’ve spent on a KDE hackfest. If things continue […]

The style now comes in two flavors: Standard, and Office. The standard style is the one seen previously. The new Office style is presented here: I also have some good news for commercial users waiting for this. The style will be renamed QtDotNetStyle and should be released as a dual licensed Qt Solution, hopefully next […]