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Started reading “Foundations of Qt Development”

Filed Under: Book, Linux, Mac OSX, misc, OS, Windows by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
January 19, 2010

When I purchased Foundations of Qt Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Johan Thelin a few months back, I hoped to get to it right away but work and life diverted my attention. Today at lunch I dived into it. Even though I’m still going through chapter 1, I think I can give a hint of it:

Foundations of Qt® Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) is well written. He assumes that you have a little bit of C++ knowledge, avoiding into the trap that so many other authors do. You wouldn’t believe how many technical books I have where the first half or more of the book is simply a rehash of the basics. Forget that!

What I really like is that when he shows you an example of code, he explains why you would want to write it this way and how it differs from the Standard Template Language (STL – see C++ Programming Language, The (3rd Edition)). Where there are performance gains or penalties of using Qt instead of STL, he demonstrates it.

I never realized just how easy it is to write C++ using the Qt framework! Just the Signals and Slots alone make it very very powerful and that’s just the beginning. I’m completely blown away :)

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The Big Road and a Nut

Filed Under: Family, humor, Linux, misc, OS by Jason L Froebe — Leave a comment
June 13, 2008

My dad is an Owner-Operator of his own 18 wheel rig.  Anything that involves my dad I’m usually pretty facinated by it:

Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered the blog The Big Road and a Nut run by “thenose“.  He is a big time Linux user and a truck driver.  Who can’t love that?

Even though my dad is a 15 to 20 years older and doesn’t ‘get’ the whole computer thing, thenose’s posts make me feel like I’m taking a peek into my dad’s world of Trucking :)

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