The Future of KDAB CI, Is Qt Right for Your Project?, QtDevCon Talk releases & more

Welcome to our August Newsletter

We bring you How KDAB creates modern CI using Buildbot followed by Is Qt Right for Your Project?: Factors to Consider When Choosing a Software Stack.

Then we offer the first releases of talks from the Qt Developer Conference in June, the latest Qt Widgets and More sessions, a new Kuesa 3D video and Event news.

How KDAB creates modern CI using Buildbot

by Jan Marker

For years, we at KDAB have been using Buildbot as our build and continuous integration system. Gerrit hosts all our projects and is our code review platform. . .

. . . Over the past year, we gradually developed and migrated to new infrastructure and, once that was in place, we were finally able to add some long-awaited features.

Read the blog.

Is Qt Right for Your Project?

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Software Stack

by Till Adam

Since the choice of a software stack is so important, it’s worth treating initial software selection as a strategic decision.

We have certainly done a good deal of Qt development and believe it’s a great tool, but there are occasions where it’s not a great fit.

Check out the 8 factors we recommend you take into consideration in your choice of a software stack.

Read the blog.

The Making of the Cluster Demo:

Data-driven 3D Apps with Kuesa 3D 2.0

A follow-on from last month’s videos detailing the attributes in our Automotive Cluster Demo on iMX8. You can see the whole series here.

When your 3D model provides different features you want to reflect in your application, you try to avoid all those variants in code, striving for a data-driven approach instead. The glTF file format we use comes into play here.

Watch the video.

Qt Developer Conference

Talk releases

Keynotes and talks

Here’s a selection of talks from this month’s releases, featuring a not-the-usual Welcome note from Kalle Dalheimer, KDAB’s CEO, Keynotes from The Qt Company and SECO Mind and a fascinating talk on fighting cancer with modern Biotech, from Miltenyi.

Other talks released this month can be found here.

Welcome Note

The Journey to the Cloud – thru the Edge

Qt 6.3 & Beyond

Proteins, Microscopes and Qt

Qt Widgets and More new releases

focusing on Qt Item Delegates

A Framework

Do you have a need for custom-painted or custom-editable items in your Model/View framework also known as delegates?

Find out more.

Some Real World Examples

In the previous episode, Jesper Pedersen presented a new delegate super class. Here, he shows us three use cases for it.

Watch the video.

Editing Delegates

In this session, Jesper focuses on custom delegates for editing items and reveals a ready-to-use delegate for choosing items with a combo box.

Enjoy!

Events

CppCon, Sept 11-16

With an opening Keynote from the legendary Bjarne Stroustroup. Onsite or online or a combo. The C++ conference not to be missed.

Register for CppCon.

Where: Colorado and online.

KDE Akademy, Oct 1 – 7

We’re proud to be Gold sponsors at KDE Akademy, and in this month’s KDAB News, we feature Adam Szopa of KDE talking about KDE goals and Akademy.

Save the dates and get alerts.

Where: Barcelona and online.

Qt World Summit, Nov 9

There’ll be One day Online and lots of Meetups globally afterwards (locations TBA).

Save the date!

Meeting C++, Nov 17-19

Look out for next month’s KDAB News where we’ll be talking to Jens Weller about his 10 years organising Meeting C++ – the most successful C++ event in Europe.

Where: Berlin and online.

Register!