27.07.2018 
KDAB is once again proud to be sponsoring CppCon, the annual, week-long gathering, organized by the C++ community for the C++ community. Kicking off with a Keynote from Bjarne Sjoustroup, and followed by a week of presentations, panels and Lightning Talks, social sessions and much more, CppCon is a rare treat in the C++ calendar […]
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KDAB at Italian C++, Milan June 23rd
KDAB was sponsor of this annual C++ event run by the C++ Community for the C++ Community in Italy, which was founded some five years ago and is growing fast. Around 200 people showed up for “++ it”, 50 more than last year, and were treated to an excellent program. There was a mix of […]
Heaptrack v1.1.0 release Better memory profiling on Linux
After more than a year of work, I’m pleased to release another version of heaptrack, the Linux memory profiler! The new version 1.1.0 comes with some new features, significant performance improvements and – most importantly – much improved stability and correctness. If you have tried version v1.0 in the past and encountered problems, update to […]
KDAB at Italian Cpp 2018 June 23rd
KDAB is proud to be bronze sponsor at Italian C++ Conference, the largest conference in Italy specifically focused on C++ development for professionals, students and businesses using C++. It’s free, organized by the Italian C++ community, and there’s Italian icecream to think about too… It’s an offer you can’t refuse 😉 Sign up and see […]
New in Qt 5.11: improvements to the model/view APIs (part 1)
The Qt model/view APIs are used throughout Qt — in Qt Widgets, in Qt Quick, as well as in other non-GUI code. As I tell my students when I deliver Qt trainings: mastering the usage of model/view classes and functions is mandatory knowledge, any non-trivial Qt application is going to be data-driven, with the data […]
C++ Modernization Brochure
New releases of the C++ language maintain incredibly strong backwards compatibility, making it easy to keep older C++ code working properly as standards march forward. C++11, C++14, and C++17 have transformed the C++ language in ways that make it as programmer-friendly as more recent languages but with many essential benefits that continue to make it […]
Clazy An open source Clang plugin allowing it to understand Qt semantics
Clazy is a Clang plugin which extends the compiler with over 50 warnings related to Qt best practices ranging from unneeded memory allocations to API misuse. It’s an opensource project spawned by KDAB’s R&D efforts for better C++ tooling. At KDAB, we have a pretty cool Continuous Integration infrastructure to take care of our customers’ […]
Hotspot A GUI for perf report
“I have also done some last minute performance improvements with the help of KDAB Hotspot/perf, and I must say that the days of profiling with weird/huge perf command line options are gone, awesome tool!” Hotspot is a KDAB R&D project to create a standalone GUI for performance data. It is a replacement for perf report. […]
Nailing 13 signal and slot mistakes with clazy 1.3 Create better Qt code by automatically uncovering easy-to-miss errors
Today I want to share 13 mistakes regarding signals, slots and connect statements and how to find them at compile time with clazy, our open-source static-analyzer for Qt. Clazy is a compiler plugin which generates warnings related to Qt. You can read more about it in our previous blog posts: How to use static analysis […]
New in Qt 5.10: QThread::create
If you are using Qt and you need to run some code in a separate thread, chances are that you are using QThread for the job. QThread is a very old class in Qt, making its first appearance in Qt 2.2, released on the 22nd of September 2000. Its responsibility is to start a new […]