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Welcome to our July Newsletter
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We bring you Hotspot: How const Can Improve Performance, then Automotive Grade Maps and Navigation for Everyone and KDAB releases this month, including a major release of KDDockWidgets.
We also bring you KDAB acquires the Code Browser from Woboq, new Video releases and a whole lot of news about Events, including SIGGRAPH and the Talks Schedule for Qt Developer Conference.
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Hotspot: How const Can Improve Performance
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Some time ago, I noticed that a unit test was quite slow, using 100% CPU for a number of seconds at one point in the test.
Read on….
Hotspot is a Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.
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Automotive Grade Maps and Navigation
for Everyone
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This QML plugin is a joint effort between KDAB & General Magic to bring the excellent General Magic Maps and Navigation SDK to the QML world.
Read on…
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KDDockWidgets 1.4
This is a major release and includes experimental MDI support and the new declarative API for QtQuick. [
Find out more…
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KDSoap 2.0
KDSoap 2.0.0 is first release that supports Qt 6, in addition to Qt 5. Also, the qmake buildsystem is fully removed in favor of CMake.
Find out more…
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KDChart 2.8
2.8 is a minor release, heralding the 3.0.0 one that will add the ability to run in a web browser – see the demo via the blog.
Find out more…
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KDAB acquires Woboq’s Code Browser
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The Woboq Code Browser is a web-based code browser for your C/C++ projects that helps developers better understand and communicate about their source code and its library dependencies. KDAB will take over and continue maintaining this Code Browser for the open-source community.
Find out more from Woboq‘s Olivier Goffart in the latest edition of KDAB news.
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Multithreading with Qt – new videos
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Data Races and How to Avoid Them
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Last month we introduced you to this new series of 7 videos, given by David Faure. Now we can bring you the second half – starting with the fourth in the series.
Go to the whole series here.
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Qt Widgets and More – new videos
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Jesper completed this miniseries on Qt Designer plugins this month, starting with part 5.
You can see the full 1 – 6 miniseries here.
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Of course the irrepressible Jesper can’t be stopped :-). Now he’d like to tell you about an issue regarding CMake.
Check out the 30 videos in the Qt Widgets and More playlist to date, here.
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SIGGRAPH 2021, 9-13 August
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Whatever’s happening at the bleeding edge in computer graphics, deepfakes, robotics, mathematics and programmatic visualization, production and the future of gaming, you’ll find it at SIGGRAPH. Once again wholly online this year, with a range of attendee options starting at $50, what’s not to like?
Check out the snapshot video →
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Qt Developer Conference, Berlin
– 28-30 Sept
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Program published
The program committee for QtDevCon has done its work and we’ve a terrific set of talks to share with you in September. Thanks to all of you who contributed! It’s been hard having to choose just enough to fit the program, but we think you’ll be delighted at the resulting variety and depth of subject matter.
To kick off, we’ve Qt 6 and Beyond from Maurice Kalinowski of The Qt Company and The journey to the Cloud has to go through the Edge from Dario Freddi, now co-CEO of SECO. This is in addition to the wide range of top class technical talks.
Check out the full program.
On September 28th we offer a choice of 10 training courses. Whilst talks will be offered as part of an online alternative ticket, training classes are only available onsite and seats are limited to keep you safe under current Covid regulations.
Check them out and book your ticket now:
- QML Application Architecture, with Giuseppe D’Angelo, KDAB
- Custom components and rendering deep-dive, with James Turner, KDAB
- Introduction to CMake, with Kevin Funk, KDAB
- What’s new in C++20?, with Marc Mutz, KDAB
- Profiling & Debugging for Linux, with Christoph Sterz, KDAB
- Introduction to QML, with Jesper Pedersen and Shantanu Tushar, KDAB
- Different approaches to 3D in Qt, with Mike Krus and Nuno Pinheiro, KDAB
- FOSS Compliance, with Catharina Maracke, Software Compliance Academy
- Programming for Microcontrollers with Qt for MCUs (STMicroelectronics), with Jakub Wegrzyn, The Qt Company
- Qt GUI Automated Testing with Squish, with Tomasz Pawłowski, The Qt Company/froglogic
We look forward to welcoming you in Berlin. Register here.
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KDE Academy talks released
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There’s a whole range of fascinating talks released by KDE after their event last month. We picked out a couple we thought you’d find interesting.
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Daniel Vratil
Daniel talks about how coroutines in C++ work and presents QCoro, his experimental library.
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The KDE Qt 5.15 Patch Collection
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Albert Astals Cid
In April, KDE announced a patch collection for Qt 5.15. In this talk, Albert explains why this patch collection was created, what it exactly is and how it is maintained.
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Upcoming Events in 2021
Check out our dedicated Events page to see what’s coming up for Qt, 3D, C++ and OpenSource this year.
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