Workshop Schedule
Below you can find the schedule from the recent OSDW event in San Deigo. Slides and other materials from the buipresentations are linked from the schedule entries.
The files are in a variety of formats including KOffice KPresenter (.kpt), Star Office Impress (.sxi), PDF (.pdf) and GZip compressed tar archives of course code (.tar.gz). Video is coming soon.
Day 1: October 13
| Start Time | Track A | Track B | |
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| 09:00 | Introduction & Orientation A kick-off talk for the event, including a report on the August aKademy conference in Spain Tom Welch |
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| 09:30 | Setting Up A KDE Development Environment From subversion to installing a parallel development environment and otherwise prepping an environment for development. Aaron Seigo Slides |
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| 10:30 | Refreshments | ||
| 10:45 | Build Systems: Makefile.am's and QMake Demystifying open source build systems for desktop applications. Matt Rogers Slides |
Components: DCOP and KParts Learn how to extend and provide for application automation using KDE's DCOP and KParts component architectures. George Staikos Slides, Source Code |
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| Lunch Break | |||
| 13:00 | Foundations: Qt, libkdecore and libkdeui The essential library fundamentals every developer should know when writing a KDE application. Aaron Seigo Slides |
Foundations: Qt, libkdecore and libkdeui The essential library fundamentals every developer should know when writing a KDE application. Matt Rogers Slides |
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| 15:00 | Test Driven Development in C++ using FOSS tools Starting with a gentle "What is Test Driven Development" introduction. The tools focused on will be KUnitTest, and eXperior. CPPUnit and CXXUnit will also be discussed. Jason Nocks Slides |
Building Applications: XMLGUI and KConfigXT Covers two XML driven technologies that make constructing applications quicker and easier. XMLGUI takes an actions-based approach to defining menus and toolbars, while KConfigXT makes managing and configuring settings easier and more maintainable. Aaron Seigo Slides |
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| 17:00 | Session wrap up | ||
Day 2: October 14
| Start Time | Track A | Track B | |
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| 09:00 | Components: DCOP and KParts Learn how to extend and provide for application automation using KDE's DCOP and KParts component architectures. Ian Geiser Source Code |
Porting Windows Applications To Linux The in's and out's of moving applications to Linux Scott Collins Source Code |
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| 10:30 | Refreshments | ||
| 10:45 | Application Automation with KJSEmbed Learn how to expose application internals to enable your users to write scripts that can extend and control your application using ECMA Script. Ian Geiser Slides, Source Code |
Creating Attractive and Usable Interfaces User interface guidelines and getting the most out of Qt Designer Aaron Seigo |
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| Lunch Break | |||
| 13:00 | KIO: Network Transparent Data Access Whether it's a local file or a file out on the network accessible via ftp, http, webdav and more, your application can read and write to it easily using the KDE I/O infrastructure. George Staikos Slides |
The KDevelop IDE A hands-on tour of the award winning KDevelop integrated development environment. Ian Geiser and Adam Treat Slides |
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| 14:30 | Extending Applications With Plugins Functionality which is loaded on demand at runtime from external libraries is a common pattern in modern applications. Creating plugins can be simple and this session details how. Aaron Seigo Slides |
Agile Software Development and the Open Source Bazaar On commercial software development projects, it is often considered difficult to do distributed, light-weight projects. Open Source Bazaar projects have evolved solutions and practices that address some of these issues. This is intended to be a discussion of some problems faced and some of the possible solutions. Jason Nocks Slides |
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| 15:30 | Refreshments | ||
| 15:45 | Database Development Techniques Examines the usage of Qt's SQL classes and data aware widgets for database driven desktop applications. Adam Treat Slides, Source Code |
Network Programming Techniques Today the network is an integral part of day-to-day desktop computing. This presentation by one of KDE's network programmers details how to write graphical applications that speak to the network most effectively. Matt Rogers Slides |
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| 17:00 | Session Concludes | ||
| 18:30 | Wrap up party | ||