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Moving to CMake

Over the past few weeks we have been playing around with CMake and we figured that it would be a good idea to have GCF build-able using CMake. There are a few open-source projects that make use of GCF with CMake anyway; we figured it would be a good idea to have a CMake build-system […]

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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 hope on actually receiving the returns. Even after repeated follow-ups, I have until now never […]

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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 they got acquired for is something they are not sharing as yet (or maybe never). […]

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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 unpack the ZIP file and take a look at the README.pdf file for instructions. Within […]

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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 this plugin developers can now use Qt Creator to ease their GCF application development. In […]

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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, but I always wished if there were an easy way to add support for more […]

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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 can be automated quite easily in Qt Creator. Just wrote a plugin for Qt Creator […]

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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 folks from the community. PS: My talk on “Writing Qt Creator Plugins” would be on […]

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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 do a surface render. But now; over and above this we also support something called […]