21.01.2014 
In March and early April, Bogdan Vatra of Qt on Android fame will tour three major cities of Europe offering a 3 hour morning session where he will talk about Qt on Android. The cities he will visit are Berlin, Germany, London, UK and Paris, France. There are only a limited amount of seats in each location, so […]
Author Archives: Don Tait
Qt 5 under the hood An interview with Mark Rigley of the QNX Car Team
The guys at QNX have been doing such great stuff with the QNX Concept Car, we wanted to draw our reader’s attention to the fact that, “under the hood” and so not publicized, the awesome entertainment system and the instrument cluster in the Mercedes are done with Qt 5 (QML2 to be precise) on top of […]
KDAB contributions to Qt 5.2
Qt 5.2 has just been released! Coming only five months after 5.1, the new release brings in a huge number of new features, as well as many bug fixes. For the first time ever, Qt is officially supported on two major mobile platforms: Android and iOS. KDAB contributed over 300 commits to Qt 5.2, both […]
SQLate
As you might already know, we are working on a type-safe template-based SQL support, SQLate, which allow you (among others) to get rid of string-based SQL queries in your Qt application. We are very proud of this new tool so naturally we decided to present it to the public during the Qt Developers days in […]
Qt DevDays 2013 – Save the dates!
We are pleased to announce the dates for this year’s Premier Qt Event of the Year in Europe and North America: Berlin: October 7 – 9 Silicon Valley, CA: November 6 – 8 This is the 10th Annual Qt Developer Days and, as last year, will be co-hosted by KDAB, ICS and Digia. Once again […]
New training: What’s new in C++11?
KDAB is now offering three-day training courses on C++11, the new C++ version that was introduced in 2011. C++11 will become more and more important in the C++ ecosystem, eventually becoming the most prevalent version. Every professional developer should invest in learning the new language version and try introducing its benefits into projects. And for […]
Videos now available from Qt Developer Days
Back in October KDAB hosted Qt Developer Days in Berlin. All the presentations from the conference were recorded and are now available online at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLizsthdRd0YzYe5T3Txgg7TUGVi-ijq4d In total almost 37 hours of talks are available, which makes a perfect compliment to the upcoming holidays. So, enjoy videos on such diverse topics as C++11, Modern Shader-based OpenGL […]
New training: Modern OpenGL with Qt
KDAB engineers recently presented trainings and presentations on the numerous ways to use and leverage the power of OpenGL in and with Qt at the Qt Developer Days in Berlin and Santa Clara. These very popular sessions were extremely well received which demonstrates a clear and keen interest in these technologies. This is perfectly understandable […]
New: OpenGL training offered as open enrollment
The new OpenGL training will be offered as open enrollment training in Berlin, London, Houston and the Bay Area, starting February 2013. To see the schedule please visit http://www.kdab.com/schedule/ If you sign up for any of the three classes before January 13th, you will receive a 20% discount by quoting the voucher code 7082eb7c.
Maintaining Qt3D
Many of you will be aware that the Qt3D module has suffered in recent times due to the unfortunate departure of the Brisbane-based staff who originally developed it. To ensure that this module has a future in Qt 5, KDAB engineers Sean Harmer and James Turner have recently volunteered to become official Qt Project Maintainers […]