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Handout Team learning presentation

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Handout from Urs Enzler's presentation about Team Learning

Mobility is Changing Everything

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Tech execs tend to get the Mobile technologies are, well ... kind of a big deal. What I've come to realize over the past few months is just how big of a deal they are - make or break traditional organizations big. In my latest post for CA Technologies, I lay out why I think that is, and what tech (and general) leadership can do about it.

JFreeChart 1.0.17

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An announcement about the release of JFreeChart 1.0.17, a free/open source chart library for the Java platform.

Chop onions instead of layers

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This is the presentation handout for a presentation I gave at the bbv Techday 2013. Special thanks to Jeffrey Palermo for supporting me. Chopping onions usually makes you cry. This is not the case in software architecture. In contrary! The onion architecture, introduced by Jeffrey Palermo, puts the widely known layered architecture onto its head. Get to know the onion architecture and its merits with simple and practical examples. Combined with code structuring by feature your software is easy to understand, changeable and extendable. Turn your tears of sorrow into tears of delight.

HTML5 MENU Tag Redefined

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The tag provides an easy way to create menus on a web page. The HTML element was deprecated in HTML 4.01 but is redefined in HTML5. The HTML tag defines a list/menu of commands. The tag is used for context menus, toolbars and for listing form controls and commands.

Top 5 Resources to learn Java 1.8 Lambda Expressions

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Collection of some wonderful resources, tutorials and books on Java 8, quite useful to learn new concept like lambda expressions, Stream API, functional interface and default methods.

Bindows 4.3 Released

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Bindows 4.3 supports the latest current versions of all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 11, Firefox 25, Safari 5.1, and Chrome 31; it also includes several new improvements and bug fixes. For detailed description of Bindows 4.3 - http://www.bindows.net/documentation/bindows43.html All customers with an active or perpetual maintenance plan will get the updated retail version directly from us. The apps on the Bindows site are already updated.

Is your server ready for Black Friday?

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For most of us, we think of the day after Thanksgiving as the beginning of the holiday shopping season. For the administrators, maintainers and programmers of online stores, it may be the busiest and most stressful day of the year.

30+ Best jQuery Parallax Plugin with Examples

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Ultimate list jQuery Parallax plugins with example and demo.List consist of all parallax effects like jquery scrolling parallax, parallax background, parallax slider.

Encoding in Java:Base64

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Base64 and other similar encoding algorithms are used to convert binary data to text in order to be easily stored or transfered through media that can interpret text. More specifically Base64 algorithm is used to convert binary data to ASCII string format. In Java, one quite good implmentation of the Base64 algorithm is provided by Apache Commons Codec api and in this tutorial we will se how to use and how Base64 works.

Putting Android In Motion - Part 1

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So you're thinking about incorporating animations in to your Android app. You've seen first-hand how an appropriate use of animation can transform an app into something you love to use, and you'd like to bring that to your project. The information in this series of posts will give you an overview of some common approaches to animating on Android.

Software Developers: Frontiersmen of the Business

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Like the early American settlers, software developers require tools and resources to ensure that what they build is not only safe and robust, but also well-poised to thrive in a competitive environment.

Qt Creator and LLDB

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As at least the Mac people know, we have had some support for the LLDB debugger simmering in the cauldron for a quite a while. There was some investigative work done a while ago, back then targeted at desktop Mac and based on the library interface LLDB provides. It turned out to be not working […]

Qt Data Visualization Technology Preview and Charts 1.3.1 Release

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When we began developing the Charts library we set as one of the goals to create a Charting component that makes it easy to create good looking interactive data centric user interfaces. We have continued with this path and we are now introducing two new releases in this area. We are releasing a technology preview […]

qbs 1.1.0 released

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It’s been a while since qbs 1.0.0 has come out, and things have been adding up – time for qbs 1.1.0! What’s newsworthy? Projects can now be nested, making it very easy to embed a stand-alone project into another one. Change tracking has improved a lot: We now catch more factors that (may) require parts […]

Qt Creator IDE & iOS

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Qt 5.2 coming in December brings full iOS support with it, but obviously you don’t want to just develop with Qt, you also want to use the best IDE available, and that clearly means using Qt Creator . Luckily, we’ve got you covered: we have developed an iOS plugin for Qt Creator 3.0. With it, […]

Qt 5.2 Beta Available

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I’m happy to announce that Qt 5.2 Beta is now available. Lots of things have happened since Qt 5.1. Apart from new platforms, we have also added a significant amount of new functionality and done large improvements under the hood. Qt Everywhere With Qt 5.2 we are introducing the production-ready ports of Qt on Android […]

Qt Creator 3.0 beta released

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Together with Qt 5.2 beta, we release the Qt Creator 3.0 beta today. Many things have been improved and added in this version, including: Improved Android support: Aside from many bug fixes, we added support for the new deployment mechanism available in Qt 5.2. This was described in more detail in a separate blog post. […]

Android deployment in Qt 5.2

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This is a quick update on one of the features we have planned in Qt 5.2 for Android. In this release, our main focus has been on improving the “Getting Started”-experience, and polishing in general. For example, this has implied quite a few improvements to how Android is presented in Qt Creator 3.0, to make […]

Announcing the Qt Mobile Edition @ Qt Developer Days 2013 Berlin

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What an event so far! Over 600 people were jammed in to the Qt Developer Days 2013 Berlin keynote speeches this morning and the level of excitement was high. Kalle Dalheimer from KDAB gave an uplifting welcome setting the stage for 2 days of Qt love and fun. Digia announced an extremely exciting piece of […]

Qt 5.2 Alpha available

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Last weekend we started the release cycle for Qt 5.2 by branching our development code base into the stable branch. As a first step in the release cycle, the Alpha release of Qt 5.2 is now available. They are available from the Qt Project download area for the open source version and in your customer […]

Introducing the Qt WebEngine

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A lot has happened with Web technologies in general since we introduced the first version of Qt WebKit in 2007. From having a couple of percent market share, the WebKit open source project nowadays has became the most widely used browser engine in the world. While the Qt port of WebKit was pretty much the […]

Enginio: The Qt Cloud Backend Hits Beta

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It is my absolute pleasure to announce that Enginio, our very own Qt cloud backend, has reached Beta status today. We have developed Enginio to make it easy for Qt developers to set up a backend for Qt applications. You can use Qt/C++ or QML and connect your application to the Qt cloud in less […]

New Scene Graph Renderer

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Few phrases are more misused in software, whispered in social channels, promised over the negotiating table or shouted out loud in blogs, as the words “The next release will make everything better!” So… I won’t say that. But… Qt 5.2 introduces a new renderer to the Qt Quick Scene Graph. When we set out to […]

Temporary Moderation of Comments in the Qt Blog

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We have quite good spam filter in the Qt Blog, but no system is perfect. In the past months we have received an increasing amount of spam in the blog comments. There are some ways to improve finding spam, but so far we have not yet found a perfect match. Our estimate is that it […]

Qt 5.1.1 Released

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Today, we released Qt 5.1.1, the first patch release for the Qt 5.1 series. It provides many improvements over Qt 5.1.0 as well as packages Qt Creator 2.8.1 to the installers. As a patch release, it does not add new features and remains binary compatible with Qt 5.1.0. It has been 8 weeks since we […]

Qt Creator 2.8.1 & Installer Framework 1.4.0 released

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We are glad to annouce the release of Qt Creator 2.8.1, and Qt Installer Framework 1.4.0! You might have noticed that Qt Creator 2.8.0 never made it into the Qt online installers. That was due to some interaction between the Qt Installer Framework and Qt Creator that broke updates in some cases. But now you […]

Qt Contributors Summit 2013 Summary

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It’s now been a little over a month since we had the Qt Contributors Summit in Bilbao, where more then a hundred people from the community met to discuss the future direction of Qt and it’s different modules and subsystems. We also had a bit of vacation time after the summit hence this slightly delayed […]

Boot to Qt on Embedded Android and Linux â€“ Technology Preview 2 Released

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We are happy to introduce the next iteration of our embedded adventure – Boot to Qt on embedded Linux and some really nice improvements on embedded Android. As mentioned in Gunnar’s blog post in May, Boot to Qt is the project under which we have been researching and developing an embedded offering for Qt Enterprise […]

Battle of the Shirts â€“ Qt Developer Days 10th Anniversary

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***Update: We’re astonished by the amount of submissions. Let’s give it up to the shortlisted Qt Shirt designers and let the voting begin. Like your favorite shirt and tell your friends! *** An offer too good to refuse: 1000+ T-shirts with your own design and a free pass to Qt Dev Days! It’s the 10th […]

Anatomy of a Qt 5 for Android application

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To those of you who were at the Contributor’s Summit, I said that I would write a few more technical blogs about Qt 5 for Android in the near future. This first blog accompanies my session at the CS quite well, as it will give some insight into how the different pieces in the Qt […]

Qt Contributor Summit Approaching

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There are now only some short days left before this years Qt Contributor summit. This time the event is co-located with KDE’s Akademy conference in Bilbao, Spain. The final preparations are happening right now, and I’m very much looking forward to two exciting days of discussions and work around Qt. We’ll use the event to […]

Qt Creator 2.8.0 released

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Today we are releasing the Qt Creator 2.8 final. If you have followed the beta and rc blog posts you already know what is new in this version. For all others I’ll summarize some of the (subjectively) most important news: You can now open extra editor windows, that behave similar to the editor area in […]

Qt Creator for Qt Enterprise users

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Qt Creator 2.8 provides a couple of new value additions for Qt Enterprise users. We would like to emphasize that this does not restrict the usage of the tools in our open source offering. In this release the focus is on QML and Qt Quick support. The new extension plugins to the Qt Quick Designer […]

Enginio-Qt goes Alpha

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Qt 5.1 has just been released and now we are proud to announce the first alpha version of the Qt libraries for Enginio. In the last few months there were massive upgrades on the server side and we have some really sweet performance improvements. Working on the Qt client side library to access Enginio triggered […]

Leslie's SiteCrafting Marketing Internship Re-Cap

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After three short months, my time at SiteCrafting is quickly coming to an end. As I look back on my experiences, I'm amazed at how much I've gained in such a short amount of time...

Vine vs. Instagram Video

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Leslie, our marketing intern, gives us the lowdown on the Vine video app vs. Instagram Video.As an Instagrammaholic, the new Instagram video feature came as quite a surprise to me. A brilliant, slightly anticipated one in fact. After reading a flurry of Facebook posts about the new addition, I found...

Left Hand, Meet Right

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Connecting data in logical ways can be the difference between service that's just OK to service that's surprisingly smooth and fulfilling. It may seem like a no brainer but project scope and budgets may not always allow for every scenario possible to play out in the real world. That being...

Early Coding Memories

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Bill. Mark. Gabe. Elena. Will. All names of people who could really be anybody. A thoughtful video put out by Code.org simply uses the first names of tech greats like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg, Gabe Newell, Elena Silenok, will.i.am, and more to make a case for teaching code in our...

How Do You Vine?

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Twitter's new social video app Vine is spreading fast and creative uses are already popping up everywhere. But, much like Instagram, will Vine turn into a place to share what you're eating at any given time of day? My guess is no...

Social Media Spam Serves As Security Reminder

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Social media networks seem to be under heavy fire from hackers and spammers. Facebook was the target of sophisticated attack (same with Apple), high profile brands like Burger King and Jeep on Twitter have been hijacked in the last week, plus, have you received a private Twitter message that goes...

Quick Code: Android 4 CSS Transition Problem

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Today I found myself up against a wall when working up a swipe-focused mobile app -- a big, green, seemingly friendly, rounded Android wall who was dancing the robot instead of the electric slide. A CSS3 transition simply wasn't working on Android 4 devices which presented a usability problem for...

Invasion of the UTF-8 Icons

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Alright, who told marketing directors about UTF-8 icons? C'mon, confess. It's OK. I know it was an innocent aside when you were talking tech speak that revealed a whole new world to decision-makers who previously thought only text could be used among the likes of social media, emails subjects, and...

Twitter Introduces Inline Tweet Highlighting

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Twitter seems to introduce incremental new features at a steady pace. Recent hits include expanded content cards and their answer to Facebook's cover image for your profile. This time around they're getting fancier with formatting of a tweet as you type it. Check it out:...

Halloween Costume Contest 2012!

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The SiteCrafting team went all out for Halloween this year. 12 employees wore costumes to work today!Now we need your help. Who has the best costume? Vote in the blog comments and we'll announce the winner on our Facebook page at 3:30pm.This year's entries:AJ as Hopalong CowboyBeverly as TiggerBrandy as...

SEO Basics

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It seems a lot of people think that search engine optimization, or SEO, is a mysterious magic art form that lives in the world of wizards and unicorns. To make things worse, more often than not if you own a web domain you will usually be spammed regularly by a...

Please Step Away from the Office

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Our marketing team recently decided to update our [already pretty solid] website. The weekly meeting would be the obvious choice for ongoing planning and brainstorming to get our new site planned but, instead, we tried something else. A change of scenery. We reserved a spot...

Seeing Our Clients Succeed

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I don't often take the Alaskan Way Viaduct to work, but when I do, it means I'm spending the day at PEMCO assisting with their customer self service site. But, alas, this is not about PEMCO (that article is forthcoming after my time with PEMCO is up).You see, while traveling...

Quick Code: iOS Webkit Inertial Scrolling

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iOS 5 brought about many changes among them was the ability for inertial scrolling (or, as I better think of it, flick scrolling) to work on overflow hidden elements in their mobile Safari browser. This enhancement only takes a mere line of CSS to make happen. Here 'tis:...

Quick Code: CSS3 Transitions for Menus, Navigation

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Soften the edges of hard menu item hover color/image changes with CSS3 transitions. The trick is to place the transition-related CSS on the initial state of the element (e.g. before you hover over it). Then whatever you decide to do on hover (change the background color, in this example) it'll...