Author: Prashanth Udupa

Possibility of IT Returns!

For the very first time in my life work-life have I noticed someone in my circle actually getting IT returns. I am infact supposed to get some money back from the IT department myself, however I had (until-now) given up…

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Cadence acquires Taray

About a year ago I had blogged about how Taray had signed an OEM deal with Cadence. [http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/42294.html]. Today I find out from Ravi, VP of Taray, that Cadence has acquired Taray. Read the complete news here: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/features/pages/feature.aspx?xml=taray How much…

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GCFSupport Plugin for Qt SDK

We have recently made available a GCFSupport plugin for Qt SDK 2010.02.01. “GCF 2.3.0 Plugin for Qt Creator 1.3.1 (QtSDK 2010.02.1) [Windows Only]” Using this plugin it is now possible to get started with GCF super-quickly using Qt Creator. Just…

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GCF 2.3 Released

After a bit of a delay, today we announce the release of GCF 2.3. You can download the latest version of GCF from our website. The main new feature in this release is the GCF – Qt Creator integration. With…

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Custom Class wizards in Qt Creator

[Update – 25th April 2011: Qt Creator 2.0+ has a much better support for custom class and/or project wizards here: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-snapshot/creator-project-wizards.html] Qt Creator comes built in with a set of project/class/file wizards. These wizards are great to get started with,…

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Expand Declarations in Qt Creator

One of the things I dont particularly enjoy is to transfer functions from .h (declaration) to .cpp (implementation), specifying the class scope and then creating open and close brackets. The whole process consumes time and I always thought that it…

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Very inspiring stuff..

LittleDog robot at USC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYo9Whssla8).

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FOSS.IN 2009 – Talks/Sessions of my interest

FOSSEE Workout – Making Scientific Computing Python better! Introduction to Maemo5 as a Development Enviroment Howto make WebKit faster OpenGL ES Application Development on OMAP3530 with Beagleboard And of-course the time inbetween talks/sessions where I get to meet incredibly talented…

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VTK Designer has better DICOM imaging support

We have been working on improving medical imaging support in VTK Designer for quite sometime. However, due to heavy workload in other products and projects; this one took a back seat. Up-until now users could select DICOM image set and…

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I am speaking @ FOSS.IN/2009

Just saw that my talk on “Writing Plugins for Qt Creator” is selected as Tech Talk (Hacker session) at FOSS.IN 2009. The event is going to be between 1st and 5th of December. The last time I gave a talk…

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

http://www.themenwhostareatgoatsmovie.com/ The movie seems very interesting!

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Downloading Qt SDKs..

With every new release, the size of Qt SDK is increasing. Given the slow and often unreliable BSNL Internet connection @ work (and home), it is not a good idea to download new releases using a browser or an FTP…

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GUIXML Editor in Qt Creator

When you open a GCF project in Qt Creator, you will notice that the project tree on the left hand side also shows GUIXML files against each component and the global ComponentLoaderComponent.xml (CLC for short) file. The CLC file describes…

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GCF – Qt Creator Integration

Over the past few weeks we have been researching on Qt Creator, its architecture and plugin model. In a previous blog my colleague JK has written about a document that we wrote on Qt Creator plugins. This week (ie yesterday)…

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VTK Designer + Code Generator

A feature that has been requested the most over the past few months is the code generator. I have personally received several emails from VTK Designer 2 users asking about the code generator that existed in the 1.x series but…

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