Brisbane

I was in Brisbane this week, meeting Tro..Nokia Qt / Qt Extended developers. Weather was kinda variable: Tuesday morning started as very nice and sunny, but before evening it was raining and thundering heavily... Not that there would have been time to enjoy fresh air anyway, we spent it pretty efficiently in office.


Personal outcome of the trip was:
  • Qt (Extended) 4.5 will rock! (Note: first technology preview was just released)
  • Future Qt versions will rock even more ;-)

Special thanks goes to Aaron, for good discussions and for having similar UI thoughts as yours truly. Hopefully there is more time to spend next time!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Fancy you coming to my part of the world! I didn't realise that there were Maemo development happening in Brisbane.

Any chance of having Brisbane available under the Date & Time Control Panel as a Home City in future? Canberra is there and it's substantially smaller than Brissie.

Next time let me know if you'd like to see the sights.

Cheers!
October 27, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Kaitsu @ QUIt Coding said…
Hey Dante!

Maemo development != Qt development, but of course as Qt is available for Maemo they do cross a bit... =)

Sightseeing in Brisbane sounds extremely good!
October 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Anonymous said…
Ahh indeed Maemo development != Qt development. Click!

Will you be attending this?:
http://linux.conf.au/

I will :)
October 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM
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