Lean UX and Agile Development: Not So Different After All
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Porting Desktop Applications from Qt 4 to Qt 5
Introduction
Now that Qt 5.0.0 is officially out, as an experiment to gain more experience with porting desktop applications from Qt 4 to
Raspberry Pi at Qt Developer Days
We had some coverage of the raspberry Pi and Qt at the recent Qt Developer Days in Santa Clara.
Configuring a UX team – are "super designers" the way to go?
To see what new UX projects ICS has been working on, come by our booth at DESIGN East September 18 and
Effective Team Collaboration
Dorothy Shamonsky, Ph.D., leads UX R&D at ICS. She brings skills from traditional design practices, and experience in UX design/build research environments.
Welcome to the ICS UX Blog
To kick us off, Jeff LeBlanc, Senior Qt Consultant and UX Engineer, talks about his unique perspective on User Experience design coming from a background in engineering.
Testing Continues
We've recently been running the Cordova tests and making some fixes to get them to run better.
Raspberry Pi is Shipping
The Raspberry Pi boards are now shipping in volume from the distributors and unboxing videos
Qt 5 Alpha Out, Raspberry Pi Shipping
Work has been slowing down somewhat as Qt 5 has been firming up for release.
Qt 5 alpha release is imminent!
In the past week or so we commited some more code for Contacts and Notification. Camera support has been submitted as a pull request.
Odds 'n Ends
Throughout this project one thing that has been constantly changing has been the source code repositories, both due to several project names changes and with the move to being run as an Apache project.
Move to QML
Since the last posting we properly set up deployment of Cordova Qt for MeeGo Harmattan (e.g.
Corinthian Leather
This week we switched to the new repository. Some pull requests from the old repository had to be resubmitted. Changes were committed for :
Repos Moving
This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version).
New Qt 5 / WebKit 2 WebView APIs
There was no blog posting last week because I was away for some vacation in a warm place.
Marketing Push
This week we did some marketing to promote the project. All of this effort stimulated some good discussion on the blogs and callback developer mailing list.
Status Update
The Raspberry Pi folks report that the first batch of production boards is finally in production. The first 10,000 units should start becoming available around the end of this month.
Another Name Change
PhoneGap, recently renamed to Apache Callback, is now being renamed as Apache Cordova.
A Week of Compiling
This week was a little slow as some people were away for the holidays.
PhoneGap for Qt 5 Project Kickoff
This week we kicked off the PhoneGap for Qt 5 project. The goal of the project is to develop a complete version of the PhoneGap open source mobile development framework for the Qt 5 platform.
70+ Raspberry Pi boards given away at Qt Developer Days
As part of the initiative to put Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi, ICS gave away over 70 Raspberry Pi boards to interested developers at Qt Developer Days last
Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi Demo
Here's a video of my colleague, Roland Krause, demonstrating Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi at Qt Dev Days in Munich.
Qt Dev Days Munich Recap
Good talking to you all at Qt Dev Days Munich.
We'll be at Dev Days in San Francisco beginning Nov 29 - hope to see you there!
Please, may I have another slice of Raspberry Pi...
About three weeks ago, Nokia arranged for ICS to gain access to the Raspberry Pi board so that we could he