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marcel
17th October 2007, 21:14
Ok guys(wysota, jacek, jpn and whoever was there), care to share some of the experiences/impressions from Dev Days?

Kumosan
17th October 2007, 21:55
Ok guys(wysota, jacek, jpn and whoever was there), care to share some of the experiences/impressions from Dev Days?

I was there too. And no, I won't share experiences/impressions. You have to be there and live it. :p


No really, it is hard to describe. The Trolls are great, you meet interesting people and the sessions have only one problem: You can't see them all.

wysota
18th October 2007, 19:12
Yes, the event was strictly top secret and Norway would have to invade Poland if we told you what was there. But it was fun - expect more info when we return (we're still in Munich right now, I mean Jacek and I - Johan and Axel already returned home).

marcel
18th October 2007, 19:17
Damn it! This event starts to sound more and more like one of those secret societies.
Maybe you'll blog something about it....

wysota
18th October 2007, 23:24
Ask Johan, he's already home :)

jpn
19th October 2007, 02:12
The event was absolutely fabulous! Everything else except my english speaking skills rocked! ;)

Oh btw, did you notice that all the content is available in public at labs.trolltech.com..

high_flyer
19th October 2007, 10:57
Hi jpn you were there too?
Did you meet wysota and jacek (and then maybe I have seen you too?)

After DevDays06 I considered my self as a Qt Evangelist.
But after DevDays07 I am a Qt Fundamentalist/Fanatic ;)

No really, what the trolls did with 4.4 is really great.
There are so many great new things.
Some worth mentioning to be on the lookout for (For you marcel, few secrets: )
- QTConcurrent
- New mutex "helper" functions (and other improvements for multi threading)
- Graphics View - lets say - keep an eye on the Graphics View blog on TT labs ;)
- The multimedia support (Phonon)
- Qt D-Bus support

This year the trolls gave "in depth" talks of 2 hours for some subjects, which was really great, we got some REAL information!

I recommend to you all to listen to the online audio of the talks, and go through the presentation slides and download the examples!

vermarajeev
19th October 2007, 13:18
But where can we find audio of the talks?

high_flyer
19th October 2007, 13:28
I think they are not yet available.
But keep an eye for them on the TT site and the TT Labs site.

jpn
19th October 2007, 23:28
Hi jpn you were there too?
Did you meet wysota and jacek (and then maybe I have seen you too?)
Yup, I was there too. And yeah, I met the Qt Centre admin team. Perhaps you noticed those two guys wearing a "Qt eXTension library" t-shirt. I was mostly hanging out with those guys.

wysota
20th October 2007, 00:11
Hmm... I was sure you two guys met. Sorry for not introducing you to each other. But hey, there were 500 people there - easy to miss someone.

From myself, thank you Axel, Daniel, Jacek, Johan, J-P, Anti & Anti (who won the contest?), Guido, Maverick (sorry, missed your first name), Nicolas, Uwe, Aaron, the Trolls - Anders, Andreas (thanks for every answer you gave me), Bradley, Chuck, David, Eivind (sorry for not managing to talk to you), Harald, Jason, Knut (thanks for the best marketing), Marius, Volker, the rest of the Support Team and all others whose names I forgot or didn't know, their Partners - Matthias, Mirko and Till from KDAB, Reginald from froglogic, Mark and Justin from ICS, Bo and Morten from Thorsen Consulting and all other countless people I met and talked to for being there. Keep up the good work!

high_flyer
20th October 2007, 01:18
Hehe... like at the Oscars ;)


Knut (thanks for the best marketing)
Not to forget QtCentre.org was mentioned by Andreas during his talk (the GraphicsView Architect) as a source for interest statistics!!
(when he wanted to show how much people are interested in the GraphicsView framework)
Which means the trolls are keeping an eye on us, which is a good sign! :cool:

wysota
20th October 2007, 10:01
Andreas is a frequent visitor here, so I'm not surprised. I've talked to Support team and they also use the forum often (as guests, unfortunately).

marcel
20th October 2007, 12:20
Perhaps you noticed those two guys wearing a "Qt eXTension library" t-shirt.

Two guys were wearing the same t-shirt?:)

jpn
20th October 2007, 13:35
Hush, Marcel! :)

wysota
21st October 2007, 00:29
Two guys were wearing the same t-shirt?:)

No, three guys. J-P was wearing the T-shirt as well, AFAIR :)

maverick_pol
23rd October 2007, 11:35
Hi guys,

Greetings to everyone who enjoyed the DevDays 2007!
Hope you had as great time as I had.

Maverick

DeepDiver
23rd October 2007, 12:06
Hi @all,

I've been to the DevDays in Munich this year the first time.
Actually I recognized QtCentre because some of you were wearing t-shirts and Andreas talking about QtCentre in his GraphicsView presentation. :D

It was very interesting and exciting to see some of the "big" names in Qt & KDE history and present.

It was very funny to listed to Aaron and Matthias.:p

Let me say thank you to all Trolls out there for my first DevDays!

Tom

Kumosan
23rd October 2007, 21:26
It was very funny to listed to Aaron and Matthias.:p


Yeah, Trolltech has great programmers (ok, software engineers) who can not only code, but also talk and hold great presentations. Skills, which not necessarily go hand in hand.