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I’m a *real* developer …

Friday, November 20th, 2009

… not just a marketing guy. :-) During the Qt Developer Days in Munich, I took the Qt certification exam (actually as one of the first people to take it). It was my birthday, so they let me pass:

Nokia Certified Qt Developer Also, right now I’m in Reykjavik, Iceland for the KDAB company meeting and 10 year anniversary. Preliminary conclusions: Watch out for roastbeef, it tastes like whale, riding on a horse feels like riding a square-wheeled bicycle (but slightly more scary) and having infinite amounts of energy under your rearside makes for interesting and relaxing uses and given a large-ish island with tectonic and seismic activity, you’ll find the capital at the most likely spot for an earthquake.

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Qt DevDays Report Published on Heise; Silk

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

After visiting the Qt developer days last week (in my capacity as KDAB‘ian, I got the opportunity to train my rusty German a bit. I had been asked to write a report for Heise (a German IT publisher of the C’t and iX magazines). My report has been published yesterday, you can read it here (again, our theme this week is: No English ;-)). So now I’m a journalists (on the Internet, everyone is). I’ve published a similar article (this time in English, but it went public last week, so it doesn’t count) on The Dot.

Work on Silk is also progressing nicely. I’m getting more and more the hang of Webkit and what cool stuff you can do with it. Richard Moore has just been blogging about our adventures with webkit on QGraphicsView. I had collected some information about that during DevDays and the Maemo summit the weekend before where I met Kenneth (at both events), a Danish/Brazilian QtWebkit hacker and Ariya (the food guy) who patiently answered my questions. More about progress in Silk will be revealed in the coming weeks as we’re making good progress.

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Interviewed about Project Silk, Qt DevDays

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Koen Vervloesem has published (well, kind of published, it’s LWN subscriber-only right now, but AFAIK will become publicly available later) an interview with Frank “Social Desktop” Karlitschek and me. The interview provides a preview of what Frank and me will discuss in our respective presentations during NLUUG’s fall conference which will be held on October 29th in Ede, Netherlands. I heard that registration is still open, so if you happen to be in the area, drop by. For the majority of my readers (those that aren’t LWN subscribers and not able to come to “The Open Web” conference, this post is more turns out pretty useless though . As the interview was published on my birthday (I’m 33 now), I’ll just take that as an excuse. Random related fact: The KDE project is — to the day — exactly twenty years younger than I am. Happy birthday fellow gearheads!

Mostly unrelated fact, I’ve just returned from the Qt DevDays in Munich where I “hung out” with my fellow KDABians. A Dot (the KDE news site) story reporting about that is coming up (I’m about to queue it for review by fellow dot-editors).

Update: The Dot article has been published.

More Update: A Dutch version of the article is up on Transparante Zaken

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