Welcome to Episode 12 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! I can’t believe it! This is the 1st anniversary of my newsletter 🎉 Episode 1 had 6 readers. Episode 12 has 254 readers. I hope that you have as
We change the code of our Qt application in QtCreator and press the Run button to try the changes on an embedded device. QtCreator cross-compiles the application, deploys it to the device and runs it on the device. QtCreator performs
Welcome to Episode 11 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! Germany is going into its second Corona lockdown on Monday. I am fortunate that not much will change for me. Even before Corona (BC), I have been working 75%
"Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify the system." John Ousterhout, The Philosophy of Software Design, Chapter 2 Complexity is also known as technical debt, which
Welcome to Episode 10 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! The newsletter goes out to more than 200 people for the very first, actually more than 215. Your amazing interest keeps me going. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 The centre
A fairly common anti-pattern found in Qt applications is to derive a class MyApplication from QApplication and to have it hand out pointers to a dozen or more major components of the application. Similar to Qt's qApp macro,
Welcome to Episode 9 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! In August, I evaluated the C++ dependency analyser CppDepend. I hoped that the tool would help me to find structural problems in the code of my current project. It
I evaluated the dependency analyser CppDepend on a real-life embedded application. My goal was to find all dependency cycles between classes in the application. I know that the application contains 50+ dependency cycles. CppDepend only found less than 10% of
Welcome to Episode 8 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! On my current project, I am re-designing and re-implementing a core part of an embedded system with a pretty high spaghetti factor. So, I decided to re-read John Ousterhout&
Welcome to Episode 7 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems. This newsletter goes out now to over 150 people 🙏 Don't miss out on my webinar on 8 July 2020 about cross-building Qt application from QtCreator using Docker
We want to develop the Internet radio application for the Raspberry Pi in the same way as for a PC. We change the source code in QtCreator and run the application. QtCreator cross-builds the application on the PC for the
Welcome to Episode 6 of my newsletter on Qt embedded systems. This newsletter goes out to 130 people. Thank you very much for your interest 🙏 I would love to learn what you are working on and what topics interest you