Writing a basic Qt project with Qt Creator

I’m assuming you are already able to program and at least had a look at C++. For example I won’t explain why int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is in the C++ source code.

If you create a “Qt Console Application” you will have the following code:

How to start with Qt?

In this series I’ll give you a starting point on working with Qt. Like I mentioned in Why I love the Qt framework I had a hard time at the beginning. I want to give you an easier start with this awesome peace of technology. This page will serve as an index for the whole series of tutorials and explanations. As more posts follow this page will be updated. I know there are plenty of tutorials on Qt, but maybe I’ll explain some things in a way you understand better.

How to work on your projects on multiple devices

In the beginning of my programming-life I’ve never thought of synchronization of my projects as an issue. Back at the time I only had a Computer standing in my room. Then I got a Laptop from the company I worked for back at the time. Still, synchronization was not an issue by now because I kept private and work separate. But the whole journey began when I started studying, and I bought myself a Laptop. In the beginning I used a USB-drive to copy my workspace on, after I finished on one device, and copied it to the other machine then. It was simply ugly… After a few weeks I had hundreds of different versions, because I worked a bit on the Laptop, forgot to copy it to my Pc but wanted to save the possible progress I made.

Installing Redmine 3.0 on clean Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial we will install Redmine on a clean installation of Ubuntu server 14.04 with an Apache server and MySql. Redmine wil be reachable under the subdomain redmine.example.com.