Today, I reserved my flights and my hotel to go to Berlin. I’m not presenting anything, but I will be there representing my new employer, discussing KDE 5 and Qt 5, catching up with old friends. Mandatory link: See you there.
Monthly Archive: July 2011
Jul 27
KDE Community releases 4.7
Kinda weird to blog on Planet KDE about a KDE release, especially when it’s also announced on the Dot, but I’d like to take the opportunity to congratulate everyone who worked on it! See the full announcement. Mandatory screenshot leeched off the announcement: I am, of course, running something close to the 4.7 release. I …
Jul 25
Table-driven development, meet C++0x
Last week, I blogged about table-driven development without creating relocations in memory. One of the comments I received indicated that the code was hard to read — I concurred, of course, as it is generated code. Then Olivier looked at it and decided to have a go at making it entirely generated by the compiler, …
Jul 21
Qt 4.8 beta 1 released
I’ve just realised that neither Eckhart’s post nor the QtWebKit post were aggregated on either Planet KDE nor Planet MeeGo. Quoting: It has been some weeks since we released the Qt 4.8 Technology Preview to the community. The release raised a lot of interest and we have received many comments in response to the Qt …
Jul 21
Initialising an array with C++0x using constexpr and variadic templates
When I wrote the blog on improving QString further, I said: If you can, use the following C++0x expression, which is read-only and sharable: That above actually does work and does produce a read-only and sharable QStringData containing the UTF-16 “Hello, World\n” string. However, what I didn’t say (because I hadn’t realised at the time) …
Jul 20
Table-driven methods with no relocations
The other day, someone in the qt-interest mailing list posted the link to an article entitled: How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing, the third part in a series of articles about writing better code. In this particular article, the author ran a static code-checker tool on the Qt source code …
Jul 17
QString improved
On my birthday, I blogged about how I’d like QString to support proper UTF-8 strings and be much easier to use. The code that I said would be my preferred would be: QString s = u"Résumé"q; Recently, in Qt 5.0 we have begun to make steps to reach that. Most of the work was done …
Jul 17