In this short episode, Jesper Pedersen shows Qt Creator users how to feel at home in CLion by re‑creating their beloved Ctrl+K locator workflow.

Among much else, you’ll learn how CLion’s “Search Everywhere” (Shift+Shift) works, how to quickly jump between symbols, files, actions and text, and how to bind it to Ctrl+K so you stop accidentally typing into the current editor instead of switching files.

Switching IDEs is challenging - muscle memory and familiar workflows are hard to overcome. Jesper Pedersen explores JetBrains' CLion after a decade with Qt Creator, demonstrating what works well for Qt/CMake projects and what feels rough for Qt Creator users. This intro covers trying CLion safely, switching to Qt Creator keymaps, configuring existing projects, creating Qt Widgets projects, and exploring debugging and Git integration.

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QRangeModel was introduced in Qt 6.10. Finally, we do no longer need to subclass to be able to provide data to a view - or do we? In this episode, Jesper show how to work with this new class, and discusses when it is a good idea to use, and when it is less so.

In this video Christoph Sterz shows Spix, a tool that allows you to automatically click and interact in Qt Applications avoiding those annoying multiple repeat logins every time you make a change.

Spix can be used for testing and debugging. Christoph explains how Spix can be installed, and how the different functions can be used for increased developer performance.

This 2025 conversation with Meeting C++ organizer Jens Weller reflects on highlights from the Meeting C++ 2025 conference and the evolving C++ landscape.

Topics include standout keynotes, major announcements like Toyota’s move to open source parts of its real-time work, and the strong interest in upcoming standards such as C++20 and C++26.

Talk submissions on practical real-world use of established technologies and libraries are also encouraged.

Nicolas Fella demonstrates writing cleaner, safer, and more performant QML code using qmllint. While QML's flexibility is powerful, it can lead to code that's hard to read, fragile, or inefficient. Using a small example application, this video walks through common QML anti-patterns and shows how qmllint catches them early, resolving all warnings for clearer, more maintainable code.

Shows how to set up a C++/QML project in Qt 6 using CMake and macro-based QML element registration, and compares the setup to how the same was done in Qt 5.

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In this video, you will learn how to use KDSoap's generated job classes to make non-blocking (asynchronous) calls as a SOAP client, even from a GUI thread, which has to stay responsive.

Learn how to use KDSoap's code generator (kdwsdl2cpp) to make SOAP calls from Qt applications very easily. But there's a catch...

Find out what KDSoap is and learn about the available tutorials for it's use in various situations

The video explains how to use the Heaptrack and Hotspot tools (on top of Linux perf) to profile C++ and other compiled-language applications on Linux, especially in embedded contexts, focusing on both CPU time and heap usage to systematically find and fix bottlenecks.

What happens if you lose power while in the middle of overriding an important setting file? Or how about if the hard disk runs full? Watch this episode to find out!

Is C++ really unsafe, or is the problem how we use it? Jesper Pedersen interviews Klaus Iglberger, author of "C++ Software Design Patterns," about modern C++ challenges and misconceptions. Klaus argues C++ can be safe with the right techniques, discussing why the community fears pointers, the importance of standard algorithms, modernizing legacy codebases, AI-assisted refactoring, and why keeping code simple reduces bugs and improves maintainability.

We start with a blog post: Static Assertions in Rust - a lightweight approach to implementing compile-time checks in Rust.

New videos include a Qt World Summit Keynote presented by Siemens Energy and KDAB, complemented by a Siemens Energy Showcase. Also included are Qt Widgets Part 9 plus two new Curious Developer Interviews hosted by Jesper Pedersen.

Latest Training and Event News complete the November update.

Join Jesper Pedersen at NDC Techtown 2025 for a conversation with Anders Schau Knatten—C++ expert, creator of cppquiz.org, and author of "C++ Brain Teasers." Anders discusses his journey from pub trivia to publishing, why low-level programming concepts matter, learning "just enough assembly," the importance of undefined behavior in C++, his favorite developer tools, and running live quizzes that stump even experts.

Struggling with CMake and build systems? This interview with Nicole Patricia Mazzuca, build expert at Remarkable and former Microsoft vcpkg contributor, explores C++ build tooling challenges. Nicole discusses developer opinions on CMake and introduces Rho - a new CMake library making builds simpler and more maintainable. Topics include vcpkg's dependency management and community-driven approaches to evolving C++ tools.

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Discover how Siemens Energy revolutionized their engineering process by developing the Plant Asset Manager (PAM). With KDAB’s Qt expertise, PAM became a centralized, scalable platform—streamlining asset data, facilitating collaboration, and empowering engineers to deliver reliable energy worldwide.