Archive for January, 2010

ossdev-ireland: A new Irish Open Source Developers Group

Monday, January 18th, 2010

ossdev-ireland is a group set up to act as a melting pot for the various different Open Source groups in Ireland.

Many group mailing lists already exist in Ireland for individual technologies, development languages and frameworks. However, each community is sandboxed into its own world. As a result there is less chance for cross-pollination of ideas between FOSS technologies, communities and individuals. The ossdev-ireland mailing list is to augment the existing mailing lists as a place to share ideas across the entire Open Source development community in Ireland.

In particular, it would be great to see the outcomes of code jams, bug triage sessions, or even links to slides that were presented at a group meetup, posted here. You never know who may be interested!

So if you want to browse or join ossdev-ireland, please visit us at http://groups.google.com/group/ossdev-ireland

Qt Programming Tips

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

This is a little more of an unusual blog post. It’s going to simply house a slowly growing list of Qt tips over time. Here goes

* Qt has the concept of models baked in. Usually you will only want to use them if you have a list of records involved. So let’s say you have a list of contacts like in an address book then this could be encapsulated in a QAbstractTableModel. If you just want to display a record in one-off fashion you can just populate a bunch of form fields (such as QLineEdits).