Once upon a time, I used to do a lot of GUI app development. My professional career started back in 1993 writing Windows 3.1 apps in C, and continued for several years, switching to C++ and using the MFC framework. But from about 1998 I found myself steadily doing less native GUI application development, [...]
The recent change of licencing model for the Qt toolkit got it a lot of press recently. My GUI-based development experience is all Windows based, using MFC and wxWidgets. As I’ve found myself using Ubuntu and OSX a lot more recently, the idea of using Qt to write software to run on Windows, Linux or [...]
Went to another meeting of the Hertfordshire Linux User Group on Wednesday night, when Rob Davis gave a talk on his experiences taking the Linux Professional Institute level 1 certification exams.
While I’m not sure that the certificate itself will carry much weight with employers, what is interesting is how studying for the certificate forces you [...]
