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KDAB in Medical Medical companies trust the KDAB software engineering team
We work on many types of medical systems that span a gamut of clinical and home-health devices, such as internal imaging, robotic surgery, ventilators, noninvasive monitoring, and much more.
Beware of Qt Module-wide Includes Save the planet by reducing compilation times!
You know the drill: in C++ you need to #include header files that declare the types and functions from the libraries that you use. Qt is no exception in this regard. Qt follows a very nice convention for its own datatypes: if you need to use a type called QType, then use #include <QType>. This […]
Qt Desktop Days – Day 3
The great content from Qt Desktop Days continued on day three. QML for Desktop If you’re building a desktop application today, should you consider building the UI with Qt Quick? That’s the question that KDABian Shantanu Tushar answers in this session. He walks us through the pros and cons of Qt Widgets versus Qt Quick, […]
Dodging disruption with software – how to prevent commoditization
– Matthias Kalle Dalheimer If your company produces physical products, you might think that your most important asset is the in-depth experience acquired in your field, your loyal customer base, or your top-notch manufacturing facilities, not your software. However, over and over again, industry giants in many fields have been toppled by Silicon Valley start-ups […]
New in Qt 5.11: improvements to the model/view APIs (part 2) Automated validity checks using QAbstractItemModelTester
In the last episode of this series we discussed QAbstractItemModel::checkIndex(). QAbstractItemModel::checkIndex() is a function added in Qt 5.11 that allows developers of model classes to perform some validity checks on the QModelIndex objects passed to the model; specifically, on the indices passed to the APIs that model classes need to implement (rowCount(), columnCount(), data, setData(), […]
Fuzzing Qt for fun and profit A brief introduction to fuzzing and how we successfully use it in Qt
Many KDAB engineers are part of the Qt Security Team. The purpose of this team is to get notified of security-related issues, and then decide the best course of action for the Qt project. Most of the time, this implies identifying the problem, creating and submitting a patch through the usual Qt contribution process, waiting […]