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We are happy to announce that the 10th annual Qt Developer Days, the premier Qt event of the year, is booked and confirmed this autumn in Berlin and Silicon Valley. Save the dates!

• Berlin: October 7-9
• Silicon Valley: November 6-8

Just like in 2012, Digia will be a co-host together with KDAB and ICS for the Berlin and Silicon Valley events respectively. Qt Developer Days 2012 was a fantastic event where Qt got a mega boost from the very-well received keynote by Digia SVP, Tommi Laitinen and also from the hundreds of enthusiastic Qt fans on site. It was an amazing opportunity to hear from the Qt experts first hand, network with new and veteran Qt groupies and learn about the bright future ahead for the best cross-platform development framework.

Last year’s event would not have been possible without the planning and execution by KDAB and ICS. They did an awesome job and brought the community together to give a positive signal that Qt was alive and kicking.

In case you missed last year’s event or you are just feeling nostalgic, have a look at the following videos courtesy of KDAB and ICS.

Qt Developer Days 2012 Berlin

 Qt Developer Days 2012 North America

Now, as we are a quarter of the way through 2013, we are excited that this year will mark a decade of Qt Developer Days. Time flies while having fun. Mark your calendars and make all efforts possible to join us and the army of Qt developers that will gather at both events. These are the events to be at to hear from our Qt experts on the latest developments on Qt and upcoming ports, the roadmap, best practiceson fascinating features and functions and lastly the best places to be at to get your jabber on and network with the Qt community.

We will soon post a call for papers, so stay tuned! http://www.qtdeveloperdays.com.

Anybody been to all 9 developer days? Who is shooting for 10? See you there!

Congratulations to Qt Commercial on its 1 year birthday! We are no longer newborns and have hustled through a very fruitful and exciting year. Our commitment to Qt has never been stronger and as we blast through our toddler, tweens and adulthood stages this year, we will continue to further develop Qt on desktop and embedded.

Thanks to the mothership, Nokia (Trolltech) for developing Qt and passing on the torch of Qt Commercial to Digia back in 2011. Our work together throughout this past year has furthered the use of Qt everywhere not only for leading companies using Qt as a strategic development framework, but also in the overall development community.

A big thanks to Digia for believing in Qt and giving us the resources and trust needed to extend the use of Qt – E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E.

Highlights of the past year:

• Giddy Up – Digia Qt Commercial Offices Established in Norway & North America (March 2011)
• Digia Qt Commercial Announces Formal Support for INTEGRITY (September 2011)
• Digia Qt Commercial Gives Love to Qt on Windows Embedded (October 2011)
• Qt Developer Days & Qt Conferences Munich, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo (October – December 2011)
• Digia Qt Commercial Announces Formal Support for QNX (November 2011)
• Digia Qt Commercial Releases Qt Commercial 4.8 (December 2011)
• Digia Qt Commercial Releases Qt Commercial 4.7.5 (January 2012)
• First Ever Qt Commercial SDK Released (January 2012)
• Metro Styling with Qt Commercial | Yes It Can be Done (January 2012)
• Digia Qt Commercial Announces Upcoming Support for Wind River VxWorks (February 2012)
• Embedded World 2012 Nuremberg | Awesome Show for Qt Commercial (March 2012)

For 2012, we are very much looking forward to working closely with the Qt Project. Our R&D team, together with the Qt community, is steady at work planning, developing and collecting feedback on ways to contribute and make Qt 5 the next big star. We will be detailing our involvement with the Qt Project and Qt 5 very soon in a blog post. Throughout the next few months, we will also detail our added features and functions to be released throughout 2012. Stay tuned.

The biggest thanks goes to our great global Qt Commercial sales, marketing, R&D, support and services teams. Go have some celebration cake!

Congrats again, Qt Commercial!

Digia, Qt Commercial is happy to say that we have added formal support for Wind River VxWorks. This annoucement further pushes Qt Commercial’s commitment to Qt on embedded platforms. It grants our customers and the community the ability to develop with Qt Commercial on one of the leading real-time operating systems.

Some highlights

• Collaboration will provide a comprehensive embedded graphics solution for medical, industrial and aerospace and defense market segments for developers targeting Wind River’s VxWorks.
• Qt developers will be able to target VxWorks with full licensing, development, support and services from Digia.
• Qt Commercial will be available on selected Intel, Freescale and Texas Instruments platforms with OpenGL ES, OpenVG and EGL graphics support on VxWorks.

Qt Commercial support will be offered on VxWorks 6.9 and subsequent versions, and will be available on selected Intel, Freescale and Texas Instruments platforms. Qt Commercial support for VxWorks will be available in a beta version based on the Qt Commercial 4.8.1 release.

Read the press release here.

Qt Commercial is also formally available on the following RTOS

• INTEGRITY: Full support with Qt Commercial 4.8.
• QNX: Current support is in Beta with Qt Commercial 4.8. Full support coming with Qt Commercial 4.8.1.

If you have questions on Qt Commercial RTOS support and/or would like to try a full evaluation, please contact us, so we can help you through the evaluation.

Many of us Digian Qt-ties are getting ready for the first day of Qt Developer Days San Francisco 2011. As the fog clears from what is a very foggy morning in the Bay area, we, together with QNX, are happy to formally announce Qt Commercial’s support for the QNX Neutrino Real Time Operating System.

This means that  Digia, Qt Commercial has extended its primary platform support to include QNX Neutrino. Qt Commercial support for the QNX Neutrino RTOS will be available with the Qt Commercial 4.8.1 release in Q1 2012; the beta-level implementation for QNX Neutrino is already in Qt Commercial 4.8.0 and will be released before year end. Make sure to read the full announcement here.

Let me give you a little background on the QNX port. An initial QNX Qt port was done by the Nokia Qt engineering team in 2009. Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., a Qt Certified Partner and a QNX Partner with broad Qt development knowledge operating in North America, greatly improved the community-supported QNX efforts, adding functionality and creating an enhanced port.

“QNX has had great success across many verticals including medical and automotive. With ICS’s port of Qt to QNX, Qt developers now have a first class port of Qt, including support for QML, that has successfully passed the standard Qt platform test suite,” said Peter Winston, CEO of ICS. “ICS stands ready to help developers implement their unique solutions with Qt Commercial on QNX.”

The Qt on QNX development community can count on a well-established Qt-expert partner network that, along with Digia, can enable successful development projects. ICS and KDAB, also a Qt Certified Partner, have extensive Qt development expertise and vast know-how on QNX and applications leveraging the latest Qt functionality. Qt developers choosing to standardize on QNX can rest assured that Digia, ICS and KDAB can provide them with the Qt development services capabilities they need to make their deployment successful.  Yippie!

Check out the QNX blog post and a very nifty Qt on QNX medical demo here.

In September 2011, Qt Commercial also announced formal support for the INTEGRITY Real Time Operating System. Being able to also announce primary support for QNX further advances Qt’s cross-platform strategy to make Qt available on as many operating systems as possible. We are spreading Qt love to all developers.

Read the full Qt Commercial and QNX announcement here.

If you are in San Francisco this week, make sure you come by our booth at Qt Developer Days. Learn more about our future supported platforms, our added features and functions on top of Qt, our role in Qt 5 and much more, by attending our "Qt Commercial Added Features and Functions" Breakfast Seminar on Thursday, December 1st.

Authored by: Katherine Barrios, Qt Commercial Marketing

All us Digia, Qt Commercial folks are back from a fantastic 3-day event at this year’s Qt Developer Days Munich event. It was great to see so many Qt enthusiasts and really see the vivacity of the Qt ecosystem. A special shout-out to the Nokia Qt Marketing team for putting on a super awesome event!

We had a great amount of traffic at our booth on all 3 days and we were quite pleased with all the demos we had to show. Gladly, they all worked! A special thanks to Midland Valley Exploration for letting us show their Qt-based Move advanced visualization oil and gas desktop product and Eykona for also allowing us to showcase their Qt-based medical wound analyzer camera (embedded Linux) and desktop application (Windows). See some pictures below.

Tuukka Turunen’s (our Director of R&D) Wednesday morning Breakfast Seminar talk on the Qt Commercial added features and functions was jam-packed. Tuukka showed the future path of Qt Commercial development and talked about how Digia is working to keep Qt alive and breathe life into many platforms such as embedded Linux, Windows Embedded 7 and Mac. It was great to hear that quite a few customers said "Tuukka’s presentation should really have been one of the keynotes." We like.

Our support desk and UX Clinic were swarming with people during the breaks. It was a good opportunity to meet enthusiastic Qt users and find out what their pains and challenges are and help them as much as we could. Andy Shaw (Head of Support) was indeed extremely busy helping folks with pesky bugs. Glad we had him onsite – he’s a long-time Qt guru.

We hope that everyone had a good time at the Digia Platinum Sponsor Welcome Reception and participated in the quiz and scarfed down some of the good-old German hotdogs and sausages. Sorry if you didn’t win the Amazon Kindle we raffled off. But, I guess we can’t all be winners. I am still sobbing over having a red dot on my badge and not winning an N9 during the keynote session on Tuesday. Sigh.

We look forward to Qt Developer Days San Francisco. We have one month to recharge our batteries and will be back in action stateside November 29 – December 1. See you there!

Some Highlights from Qt Developer Days 2011 Munich

Digia’s booth at Qt Developer Days 2011 Munich figure 1

Digia’s booth at Qt Developer Days 2011 Munich figure 2

Eykona Medical Device & Wound Analyzer

Magneti Marelli Auto Infotainment Demo on Lupin (Linux)

Our Qt Commercial Technical Support Engineers Onsite