Monday, November 5, 2012

Raspberry Pi board + Qt + KDE

As Nokia offered to sponsor some Raspberry Pis for the KDE project, they asked about proposals for using such devices. It turned out that my idea was selected, so here I'm waiting for the board to arrive. Thanks Nokia for sponsoring those RPis!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Long life to Qt

Digia already completed the acquisition of Qt. Previously announced in August 2012, it means the beginning of a really new era for these cross-platform libraries and development IDE, one more in its long and sucessful path so far.

Friday, May 18, 2012

How to evaluate variables in project (.pro) files


If you need to evaluate a variable inside a project file (.pro) the variable must be enclosed in curly braces.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Testing for Endian-ness (byte order)

Although very unlikely that you need to test endian-ness (or byte order) in Qt applications, you may take advantage of some macros available to help knowing how the system the application is running under will store data in memory.