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KDAB at Embedded World 2023 March 14 - 16, Nürnberg, Germany
We had a great show this year at our booth 4-302 at Embedded World 2023, where we showcased outstanding performance on cost-effective hardware featuring Qt, C++, Slint, Rust, and Flutter. We know how complex and demanding software development for embedded devices can be. Our experts had you covered with your questions around choosing a framework, […]
Heaptrack v1.3.0 Release
Version 1.3.0 of the KDE Heaptrack project was just released by KDAB’s Milian Wolff. Heaptrack is a heap memory profiler on Linux-based operating systems. It can help you find hotspots that need to be optimized for reducing memory usage, memory leaks, allocation hotspots, and temporary allocations. Included in this release is a special new feature […]
Full Stack Tracing Part 2 Environment setup
If you’ve read the first article in this series, you’ll know what full stack tracing is and why you definitely want it. This time, we’ll show you how to setup full stack tracing on your Linux system. There are two steps – first get everything configured to capture a trace, and then view and interpret […]
KDE’s Akademy 2020 – A Quick Summary
What is Akademy? Akademy is the yearly conference for the KDE community, which is a community devoted to creating free software for desktop and mobile. Typically, Akademy takes place in a different city each year. However, due to the pandemic, the conference was online this time around. September 4-11 marked the dates of Akademy 2020. […]
Heaptrack Version 1.2.0 Released Maintenance release of the fast Linux heap memory profiler
We have just released version 1.2.0 of Heaptrack, the fast heap memory profiler for C++/Linux applications. A bit of Background The Heaptrack fast heap memory profiler allows you to track all heap memory allocations at run-time. Afterwards, you can use the accompanying GUI tool to find optimization opportunities in your code by analyzing the recorded […]
KDAB Training at Qt World Summit Berlin 5th December 2018
KDAB offered eight superb Training Classes in Berlin, you can see the list below, which includes one run by our long-term collaborator, froglogic. All the rest were delivered by KDAB engineers. There were five classes in our Introductory group, and three in the Advanced. Read the descriptions carefully to see which one you’d have liked […]
LibreOffice and Plasma easing the use of GTK apps on the KDE desktop
At KDAB, we know that consistency is an important aspect of the User Experience – users don’t want to have to learn different ways to achieve the same thing. In the Linux world, there is a major structural pitfall to this: the applications written for Linux come in at least two major technologies – Qt […]
The LiMux desktop and the City of Munich KDAB and the case for Free Software for public administration
There has been a lot of back and forth around the use of Free Software in public administration. One of the latest initiatives in this area was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe, FSFE. It focuses on the slogan: Public Money – Public Code. There are various usage scenarios for Free Software in public administration. […]