{"id":1357,"date":"2005-08-29T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/akademy-2-devconf-first-day\/"},"modified":"2005-08-29T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T15:46:02","slug":"akademy-2-devconf-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/akademy-2-devconf-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"aKademy [2] – DevConf – first day."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a>
\n\tThe first day of DevConf started with Multimedia API for KDE 4<\/em> by Matthias
\nKretz<\/a> who has done quite a lot of work on the kdemm API, a unified way to develop applications
\nthat use multimedia. He was already able to show a basic application using the new framework which
\nis supposed to be used by KDE4.<\/p>\n

\tNext were two talks about parallel execution, the first, Asynchronous Programming with Qt –
\nPitfalls and Techniques<\/em> by Till Adam
\nand David Faure<\/a> showed a couple of techniques with which you can workaround the need for
\nmultithreading, showing how to use QTimers and a couple of other techniques. In the second talk, Mirko
\nBöhm<\/a> showed a structured approach to multithreading using interdependant threadlists and
\nadding dependancies to them. Pretty neat stuff, although Qt seemed not quite ready for all that.
\n(Mirko explicitely warned to *not* try this in Qt3.)<\/p>\n

\tZack
\nRusin<\/a>‘s eyecandy-wanking has been postponed to wednesday because the beamer doesn’t seem to like
\nZack’s Mac, let’s hope this will get fixed. Zack did show his work later this afternoon, here’s a movie<\/a> of it. Note that this is quite
\nan old notebook, about 4 years old, running XGl on a Radeon 9000 graphics card (!).<\/p>\n

Aaron showed a couple of nice features of Qt4 designer, which does offer some new
\nstuff, such as easier integration of custom C++ widgets, it would be nice if that would be available
\nfrom python at some point, too. (But then PyQt4 is still far away.) Dragging and dropping and the
\nwhole handling of layouts have undergone some major changes, which is quite good. There are still
\nsome painting issues, though, but it seemed far better than what I’m experiencing with Qt3
\ndesigner.<\/p>\n

\tHere’s an overview of the photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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