Openismus is looking for experienced C++ and Qt developers to join our team creating quality and fighting entropy. It’s a chance to work on serious projects with (sometimes uncompromising) colleagues at Openismus who care about getting things done properly. Please email me if you are looking for work and can show me some public involvement. [...]

I often edit Glom’s .glade files by hand instead of using Glade (though that should get better now that we have a GtkSourceView catalog for Glade, and that Openismus is paying Tristan to do a little cleanup in Glade). But I often make mistakes, so I added some tests. These run when doing “make check”, [...]

Yesterday I released the API/ABI-stable gtkmm 2.20.0. Some GNOME friends recently suggested that we should hype gtkmm more, and the applications that use it. I think they want us to use meaningless phrases like more-productive, ground-breaking, state-of-the-art, etc. I won’t do that, but it’s nice to note that gtkmm has now tracked the GTK+ 2 [...]

After our successful year of training at Openismus, I thought I’d publish the rough bullet-point list that we used. Whoever we choose for the following year will repeat much the same process, with in-depth critique and a dose of reality. These were our overall aims: Familiarity with the programming languages, toolkits, and tools, beyond the [...]

A little over a year ago, we hired our first batch of Openismus trainees. After an intensive year gaining knowledge and experience, I’m proud to say that David King and Michael Hasselmann have now graduated to regular work on customer projects. They’ve become solid developers in whom we have confidence, thanks to mentoring from all [...]