I will promote Cybercom’s FREE QtQuick & KDE Plasma event because I’m partially responsible of it. As you may have noticed, I like Qt so therefore I’m very glad that my employer is willing to pay all the fun:)
The event will be September 7th in Technopolis, Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland.
So first of all, there will be kick ass speakers: Alexis Menard, one of the developers behind Qt Quick and Marco Martin, who is responsible of what happens in Plasma Netbook project. Here are the videos that Alexis and Marco have made about their presentations:
Alexis Menard:
Marco Martin:
The Idea of the Event
The idea of the event is to have interesting topics, good speakers and to let the audience to participate in the event. Yes, if you have a Qt based, especially Qt Quick based project, you can demo it in the event. Don’t forget to mention that in “request invitation form”. So basically we are “spreading the word of Qt” and we want you to be part of it. You can checkout the agenda from here: http://www.cybercomchannel.com/?page_id=187
Remember that the event is FREE, but you must request an invitation there. We wanted to keep it that way because the amount of seats is limited. You can request an invitation from here: http://www.cybercomchannel.com/?page_id=175.
If you want to demonstrate your project, then you have a bigger change to get invited. Of course we want to get there as many people as we can fit in the room.
Another way how we want audience to be involved in, is to have discussion there. Yes, you can ask questions, raise some issues if you have found something that might be problematic or just give feedback how do you feel about Qt Quick or Plasma.
Of course you are also welcome to the event if you are just interested in Qt and what’s happening in the Qt world. You don’t need to be hardcore developer or developer at all.
Let’s hope that we will see there bunch of people and will will have a good event.
Last spring I started to write QuickFlickr application i.e. a Flickr client for N900. Back then I wrote this article of it. For me this is just a learning process to study QML and trying to figure out how I can write a real application using C++ for a lower layer and QML for the UI. The biggest challenge so far has been to design C++ side so that it provides usable interface to QML side. Before going too deep into details here’s the video about QuickFlickr running first on OS X and after that on N900.
I was in Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2010, but as you probably know, everyone’s is stucked here now. As many of my friends have said, the San Francisco is not the worst place on earth to get stucked. I tried to get a flight to the southern part of Europe this morning, but it was impossible. Update: I manage to get flight to the Madrid for Tuesday. After that I decided to do some work and I wrote an article about the Collaboration Summit. You can read it from here.
Instead of staying the whole day in the hotel room, I headed to the Fisherman’s Wharf to the Bay area. The weather was nice and I met my new Swedish friends Jonas and Linus there. I’ve been hanging around with these two guys here in SF for couple days now.
Jonas and Linus
The picture above is actually not from the Fisherman’s Wharf, it’s from the Apple Store nearby the Union Square.
Some time ago I wrote how you can build and run QML applications on N900, but since that I haven’t done anything related to QML, until now. I’m not the only one at the moment who is trying to study how QML works and how you can deploy it in your application. I have always learned by doing, so therefore I decided to write a small application with QML.
I like to photograph and I have missed a good Flickr client for N900, so it was a natural choice to write a small Flickr client. I call it QuickFlickr, naturally:) So here’s the sneak preview of QuickFlickr. On the video I run it on Mac, because it takes too much time to build exactly the same version of Qt and Declarative module that I’m running on my laptop.
The application is far from ready and it lacks of proper graphics and bunch of functionality like uploading local images to the Flickr, but I will work on this app in order to learn more QML. I also managed to improve the performance quite much after I shot this screencast. I’ll add another video where you can see the performance improvement.
