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• Experimental Qt 4.7 packages for the N900 (Qt Labs)
  The Qt 4.7 Tech Preview has been released a while ago, and we’ve gotten a lot of requests to package it for the N900. Read on if you want to live on the bleeding edge
• こんにちは日本 (Qt Labs)
  We’ve received many requests from people from Japan for localized translations of our blogs and news. Well, your wishes just came true because our friends from Customer Service in Japan took it upon them and from now on they will be providing japanese translations of some blog posts. To learn more about this please visit [...]
• A quick look at the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (IBM Developerworks)
  Get a concise overview of the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud environment. Explore the benefits this environment offers for developing, testing, and deploying enterprise applications for the cloud computing model.
• Achieve end-to-end business process monitoring with new plug-ins for WebSphere Business Modeler (IBM Developerworks)
  Automatically generate models to monitor and correlate business processes using the plug-ins provided in WebSphere Business Modeler. Define a monitoring set, achieve multi-module monitoring, and import the monitor models generated by the article's code.
• Create a REST API with Agavi: Implement a REST API with the Agavi PHP framework (IBM Developerworks)
  Work with Agavi, an open-source framework for application development, to build a REST API with support for both XML and JSON formats. Examine Agavi's support for REST routes, and learn how to quickly add a REST API for third-party development to an existing or new Web application.

• Prevent database outages with High Availability Disaster Recovery in DB2 (IBM Developerworks)
  Step through the process of configuring primary and standby databases for DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery using IBM Data Studio or Optim Database Administrator. Configure the logging type, back up the primary database, and preview all the generated commands before executing the setup.
• Efficient mathematical processing using Scilab through PHP (IBM Developerworks)
  Bring the Web and science together for a smarter world. Combine freely available scientific data with open source tools that process the data. Then experiment and share your results with the rest of the community. Learn one approach to community-driven science that connects PHP to Scilab.
• Testing Web 2.0 application challenges (IBM Developerworks)
  Use existing tools optimized for testing services to better test the end-user experience on your Web 2.0 applications. Discover how you can help your organization solve testing challenges and drive application quality.
• OpenID for Java Web applications (IBM Developerworks)
  Employ OpenID to secure Java Web application resources from unauthenticated users. Learn to use the openid4java library to create an OpenID Provider in a single sign-on application scenario to enable end users to sign in just once to access multiple applications.
• Trolls In Brazil (Qt Labs)
  Meeting Last week Espen already reported that a group of trolls were attending the Bossa’10 Conference in Manaus. It was a great conference with lots of great people attending and interesting presentations. What is especially good about this conference is that the focus is on networking. It is always good when you get to meet people you [...]

• QML on the Road to Release (Qt Labs)
  As QML progresses towards its first official release we are again reviewing the APIs. This has resulted in a number of changes to the QML and C++ API in the Qt 4.7 alpha release, and a few more to come in the beta. Unfortunately this will result in some small adjustments for the [...]
• Bossa Conference’10 and Plasma-Mobile (Qt Labs)
  I was lucky enough to attend the Bossa conference ‘10 in Manaus where i was presenting Plasma-Mobile. I did a previous post about it so this one will be short, it just to show that the work is progressing well, look at it running on the N900 with decent performance : Plasma Mobile is based on [...]
• This week’s (10) weigh-in for QtWebKit trunk (Qt Labs)
  This week’s heaviest contributions were Antonio’s directional navigation and Benjamin’s scrolling optimization for pages with fixed positioned elements. Antonio landed his work for spatial navigation, making it possible to navigate through links and widgets with the cursor keys. The long list of patches also includes layout test coverage, DRT support and a flag in QWebSettings for [...]
• Qt Creator 2.0 alpha (Qt Labs)
  Just over a year ago we released Qt Creator 1.0. Today we are releasing the alpha for Qt Creator 2.0. And the 2.0 release is shaping up really nicely. I’m feeling as excited about the 2.0 release as for the 1.0. We have something awesome and hopefully I can convince you to try the alpha [...]
• Qt 4.7.0 Tech Preview Released! (Qt Labs)
  Today we have released the absolute latest version of Qt for all those cutting edge folks that want to try out the newest stuff – The Qt 4.7 Tech Preview. The 4.7.0 TP is the first step of the 4.7 release cycle, and our goal is to showcase our newest technology (such as Qt Quick) and [...]

• Introduction to Pyjamas: Exploit the synergy of GWT and Python (IBM Developerworks)
  Get to know Pyjamas, a tool that combines a stand-alone Python-to-JavaScript compiler, an Ajax framework/library, and a Widget set API. With these components, learn how you can write comprehensive applications without writing a single line of JavaScript.
• Use DB2 pureXML to implement a healthcare industry data solution (IBM Developerworks)
  Examine the Query Existing Data architecture and components, and learn how a QED solution from IBM Research uses interoperability and standards to help healthcare practitioners share patient records better.
• Write apps that will run on TVs and set-top boxes: Get started with the OCAP RI (IBM Developerworks)
  Use standard Java technology and the OpenCable Application Platform Reference Implementation (RI) to create applications for OCAP devices. Then use the OCAP RI to run the apps on a desktop computer.
• Creating a NIEM IEPD: Extend NIEM: Design an XML information exchange between U.S. government entities (IBM Developerworks)
  Design an XML information exchange between U.S. government entities. Create extension and exchange schemas for the parts of your model that do not map directly to the NIEM, and learn the various methods of adding new elements and types based on NIEM components.
• Get to know Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration change management (IBM Developerworks)
  Leverage a simple HTML + JavaScript interface to learn some of the key features of the new OSLC Change Management 1.0 specification. Use this article as a good starting point for taking advantage of the services quickly, with minimal effort.

• UI design for developers and/or designers? (Qt Labs)
  When I started working with Qt back in 2003, what appealed the most to me was the network and GUI parts. The network part because I love network programming and have ever since I started with programming. The GUI part because of my demo scene background, but also because I never managed to get a [...]
• Hi from Bossa Conference (and BossaTetrix) (Qt Labs)
  Several of the Trolls are right now in Manaus (Brasil) at the Bossa Conference 2010 and we’re having a great time. The conference is hosted by INDt here in Brasil, and the topics covering Qt directly are: QML QtWebkit Next generation widgets, and Shipping Qt apps on Symbian but there are also talks about KDE, Ubuntu, Maemo etc. In my talk [...]
• This week (9) in QtWebKit trunk (Qt Labs)
  It’s been a more quiet week. Here are the highlights: Robert implemented support for private browsing in PluginViewQt (33180). Jedrzej continued upstreaming QtScript API and bug fixing in it (34843, 34850, 35387). Andreas hooked up QNetworkReplyHandler to Qt 4.7’s support for the HTTP OPTION verb (34647). Jarkko, Nicholas, Kim and Noam fixed various bugs in the MediaElement backend, the [...]
• QtWebKit Releases (Qt Labs)
  QtWebKit is a part of Qt and we’ve always released them together. With a rapidly growing development community we’d like to decouple QtWebKit from Qt’s releases. It is a project on its own, it’s developed as part of the WebKit project and therefore deserves its own release. We’re going to call the first standalone release [...]
• Deferrable functions, kernel tasklets, and work queues (IBM Developerworks)
  Learn about work queues and kernel tasklets, two mechanisms for reducing interrupt-related latency by taking work out of the interrupt context and giving it to the kernel to work on later.

• Debugging C++ applications using ProbeVue (IBM Developerworks)
  Examine various ways to debug C++ applications using ProbeVue. Get an explanation of Vue language syntaxes for probing several function types in C++, learn how to access their arguments, and explore the structure of header files, all while learning key points for writing Vue script.
• Getting started with OCAP: Running the OCAP RI (IBM Developerworks)
  Take a look at the OpenCable Application Platform Reference Implementation, a freely available implementation of a comprehensive platform for interactive applications that run on set-top boxes, televisions, and other devices. Get a high-level overview of OCAP RI, and learn how the OCAP RI locates and runs an application.
• Automatically extend dbspaces in Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 (IBM Developerworks)
  Avoid out-of-space situations by using existing features of Informix Dynamic Server to implement a space management function. Learn how the IDS SYSADMIN system database's stored procedures and scheduler let the database server execute database functions and procedures at predefined times.
• Developing gadgets for Google Wave (IBM Developerworks)
  Learn the basics of Google Wave, from building a simple gadget to the high points of gadget construction. Whether you plan to use, integrate with, or compete against it, you'll want some understanding of what this new online communication and collaboration tool does.
• Create new-age Web sites using HTML5 and CSS3 (IBM Developerworks)
  Get a hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3. Using this tutorial, walk through the functions and syntax for many of the new elements and APIs that HTML5 has to offer, as well as the new selectors, effects, and features that CSS3 brings to the table. Then develop a sample Web page that harnesses many of these new features.