http://blog.forwardbias.in The Official Blog of ForwardBias Technologies Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:11:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I noticed that the video and slides for my Qt Dev Days 2011 talk in Munich are now online. Here's the video and here are the slides. I couldn't attend the event in San Francisco because I had to attend to some personal matters. Johannes and Donald covered for me there ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/12/qt-quick-best-practices.html I have a wireless router at home which is physically far from the place I actually work. I required an internet connection to update my Arch machine. I could use wpa_supplicant to connect to internet using wifi but I thought I would explore the option of connecting my laptop back ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/11/sharing-wifi-connection-over-ethernet.html I am just about to catch my flight to Munich to attend Qt Developer Days 2011 where I will be giving a talk on Qt Quick Best Practices. I have been working with QML exclusively for over a year now and this talk is in essence a summary of all ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/10/qt-devdays-2011.html If you have worked with QtSql, you might have hit the dreaded "Parameter count mismatch" for your perfectly valid SQL query. The problem is excruciatingly hard to debug because the query itself works perfectly fine with the sqlite3 tool. Here's the solution: Compile Qt with -system-sqlite. The problem: Qt uses it's own ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/08/when-sqlite-queries-fail-for-no-reason.html Ever heard of WebKit2 and wondering what it means from a Qt perspective? Here's an attempt to explain QtWebKit and QtWebKit2 in simple terms. I make no attempt to be completely technically correct, it's meant to be able to explain terminology to the WebKit uninitiated. In WebKit lingo, "WebCore" is the ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/08/on-webkit-and-webkit2.html At the Qt Contributors Summit, Johannes' showed me his Qt/Caca Lighthouse plugin. Caca is a graphics library to output text instead of pixels. So this plugin lets you run Qt programs on the console :-) His code needed some love, so I forked it and cleaned it up. Caca does not ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/07/qtcaca-lighthouse-plugin.html Up until 3 hours back, I wasn't intending to attend QCS since my visa was expected to arrive late. We have 15 working days waiting period here just to get to the visa interview phase. My tickets were booked for the 19th June to Berlin nevertheless for a Qt Media ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/06/qt-contributors-summit.html I was trying to publish an app to Ovi last month using Nokia's free signing service (the Nokia-recommended way), and was a little confused with instructions spread across different sites and with different approaches. I mailed Ovi Publish to understand the process better. (Thanks to Kevin from Ovi Publish for ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/04/publishing-symbian-apps-to-ovi.html Disclaimer: I am an ex-troll and my company does a lot of Qt business with Nokia I have been reading the largely negative comments in the blogs by Aron and Daniel about the future of Qt. Sigh, the anonymous internet has made it all too simple for people to post abusive ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/02/business-as-usual.html To my knowledge, there are 3 Qt based JSON parsers out there - QJson, JsonQt and this. QJson uses bison for parsing and JsonQt is hand-written. I have used QJson before and it works perfectly fine. If you are like me, you will sense an opportunity here to write a ... http://blog.forwardbias.in/2011/01/qjsonparser-parse-and-stringify-json-with-qt.html