Learnings & Experiences

May 2008 has been an exciting month for us. We have now packaged GCF as a commercial product that can be bought, just like Qt, and used within commercial software. This month we have sold 13 licenses. 3 of them within India and 10 to a company inthe UK. So far we were selling GCF…

One of the nice things about programming with Qt is “Qt Assistant”. One of the sexiest documentation tools in the market today, by my opinion. We wanted to ensure that developers are able to access GCF documentation from within Qt Assistant as well. The new QtHelp module in Qt 4.4 helps us to do all…

Recently the founders of Linux Learning Centre spawned another company called Linux Resource Centre (LRC) to provide support for companies interested in adopting GNU/Linux for their enterprise. So far they were just teaching IT staff in companies on GNU/Linux Desktop and Server configuration, Apache, MySQL, PHP and so on; now they are also offering support…

“Every overnight success is about ten years in the making”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73JLur_hQJ8

Two years after the company was started, we are now four people big 🙂 Lohith is missing in this pic 🙁

After a lot of requests from the user-base of VTK Designer, finally VTK Designer 2.5 code is now accessible from the following SVN repository https://svn2.hosted-projects.com/vcreatelogic/VTKDesigner2. Username/Password for read-only access is anonymous/anonymous. If you are interested to participate in the development*, then do drop me an email. You are more than welcome. From now on, majority…

We have now hosted GCF in a public repository. You can checkout the latest copy of GCF from the link below https://svn2.hosted-projects.com/vcreatelogic/GCF Username: anonymous Password: anonymous The latest code has IPC support. It compiles against Qt 4.3.3 and Qt 4.4rc1. To compile GCF you will need to check out a copy of the code and…

For the past one year or so, we did a project for IIT Bombay’s EE department. They will shortly release announcements about the same. During my visits to IIT Bombay, I met a lot of wonderful people. Prof. Patil and Prof. Chandorkar of EE Department, Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran of Aerospace Dept, Sachin Pant MTech student…

GCF – (Generic Component Framework) is receiving a major update this month. We have implemented remote procedure calls, remote set/get property and remote signal/slot connection functionality in it. The current builds of GCF seems to work as expected, over the next few weeks we will be testing itrigorously to find out hidden flaws and fine…

Yesterday I received a courier. I was not expecting any so I was a bit surprised when I got one!. After signing the acknowledgment, I realized that a customer of mine had actually sent it. Its been quite sometime since we finished working for them, in-fact we were in talks with them about starting another…

I thought this was a nice article: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3235

Ariya has written a nice widget called PictureFlow which does what CoverFlow does on the Mac. Its really good and really small (lines-of-code wise).

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/09/sign-of-the-times-web-20-outsourcing-humor/

When VTK Designer 1 was first released, I had received an email communication from Aurelien, a developer from France. He had expressed interest in porting VTK Designer 1.x to Windows; and he had done it with some success. [See below, a screenshot of VTK Designer 1.0 on Windows XP]. The Windows version of VTK Designer…