Title: Cross-platform software development made easy with Qt

Speaker: Jan AArsaether, Technical Sales Manager, Trolltech, David Boosalis, SW Engineer, Trolltech          

Date/Time: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 9:00 am - 11:30 am

Location: CSRI Building, Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Qt makes it easy to create native looking and performing applications on Unix, Linux, Windows and MacOSX platforms using the "write once, compile everywhere paradigm". Gaining popularity as a GUI Toolkit in the mid 1990s, Qt has evolved into a SW Application Framework with support for all aspects of application development including: Networking, Threading, XML, SQL, Unicode Strings, Containers, etc.
  
About 5,000 companies world wide including about 50 people here at Sandia. Qt is particularly popular within the performance critical industries; often in combination with 2D and 3D visualization or simulation of huge data sets and/or real-time displays. Sandia's work with Cubit, ParaView, and ThreatView are examples of how clients create their applications with Qt: http://trolltech.com/customers/casestories

Agenda:
The Seminar will include:
* Quick Introduction of Trolltech
* Overview of Qt Functionality and Development Environment
* Examples of Qt Programming
* Discussion of Qt Usage at Sandia
* Q&A

Speaker Biography:
David Boosalis started programming with Qt and Qt/Embedded around 2001 and joined Trolltech about two years ago 2006. Before that, David has a background working for NASA and other companies building satellite control systems. Jan AArsaether started programming with a pre-release version of Qt in 1995 at the first Customer of Trolltech. He officially joined Trolltech in 2000 to help start the US operations and has since been technically involved with Sales and Business Development. Jan resides in Austin, Texas.