Miłosz Kosobucki
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Learn how to migrate Windows CE devices to Embedded Linux, from architecture and UI to OS touchpoints, and reduce risk with expert guidance from KDAB.
Why choose C++ and Slint for your next embedded project?
26 March 2025
If you work on C++ projects on Windows that need to be built with multiple Visual Studio C++ compiler versions, you need some way to manage the installations of all these build environments. Either you have multiple IDEs installed, or you know about build tools (https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe) and maybe keep only the latest full VS IDE […]
VS Code for C++/Qt Linux Applications
14 February 2024
Using Windows Subsystem for Linux
7 February 2024
If you're a C++ developer, with or without Qt, on Windows, and sometimes need to test your application on Linux, there's an easy way to build and test it without rebooting now. Microsoft introduced Windows Subsystem for Linux. A mechanism to run a lightweight virtual machine with a Linux distribution with just a few clicks with elegant integration with the host OS. I'll show you how to install it and configure for working with C++ and Qt applications.
You may already be hosting your code on GitHub, but do you know that GitHub provides a built-in Continuous Integration solution called GitHub Actions that is very easy to set up and free for public repositories? In this article I'm providing a crash course on what GitHub Actions are and how to use it for […]
As described in our previous blog posts, you can use Visual Studio Code as an IDE for C++ projects. It works particularly well with CMake-based projects. Unfortunately, with build systems not supported natively by VS Code, you need to manually configure include paths and compilation definitions, for the code model to work properly. Since the […]
State of Native Big File Handling in Git
15 June 2021
After many struggles with using git LFS on repositories that need to store big files, I decided to spend some time on checking the status of the built-in partial clone functionality that could possibly let you achieve the same (as of git 2.30). TL;DR: The building blocks are there, but server-side support is spotty and […]
TL;DR: If you choose a default translation in your Qt application based on a locale name like this: then please change it to: Some of your users (me!) will be thankful that your application appears in the same language as the rest of their system. Background I'm a Polish guy working with computers, mostly on […]
