Most embedded Qt HMIs don't need the expensive commercial license but can be built with the free LGPL-3.0. Static linking is allowed with LGPL. B2B products need not allow the installation of modified Qt libs. Some Qt modules can be used under GPL albeit in separate processes.
Why TDD is a Main Driver for High Performance
My Favourite Books of 2022: Enabling Continuous Delivery
Electronica 2022 Round-Up
In the seminal book Accelerate, Forsgren and her co-authors provide empirical evidence that Continuous Delivery has a positive impact on the performance of software development organisations. If organisations neglect some of the principles and practices of Continuous Delivery, their performance
The Board-Support Package Is Not Enough!
After having built the reference Linux image from a SoM, SoC or terminal maker and having run it on the board, we must inevitably custom-tailor this image to our needs. We must create our own Yocto layer. We must remove
Do You Have to Pay for Qt?
In the post Setting Up Yocto Projects with kas, we built the Linux image for the Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus. It's time to flash the image on the board using the Toradex Easy Installer (TEZI). It's
The parking experience at Munich Airport is awful. It is too easy to do something wrong, which can only be remedied by calling support. The bad user experience is caused by a bad system architecture. The pieces for a better
Not right away! Trunk-Based Development requires that the software builds and passes enough tests, before we integrate our changes into the main branch (a.k.a., trunk). We have enough tests, if breaking the software is highly unlikely. By definition,
We start with unit tests reading a file line by line with QFile. Unit tests accessing the file system are not considered unit tests, as they may be slow and may depend on each other in surprising ways (see A