Me

• Name: Andreas Aardal Hanssen
• Occupation: R&D Manager, Qt R&D / Nokia
• Education: M. Sc. in comp. sw., University of Oslo
• Email:

Stuff I've done

• Binc IMAP
• 3D Engine

Stuff I've written

• My Trolltech Labs Blog page

• QQ 19: A Better Canvas
• QQ 17: TCP Traffic Control
• QQ 16: Transparent Backgrounds in Qt 4.1
• QQ 11: Not Your Standard Pie Menu
• QQ 10: Secure Networking with QtSSLSocket

Other stuff I've written

• 2009-04-23: Layered rendering part 2: In helps solve many problems
• 2009-03-04: Animated Tiles
• 2009-02-27: Braindump: Graphics View and the joys of off-screen rendering
• 2009-02-06: Improvements to QGraphicsItem::CacheMode's insides
• 2009-01-14: Windows and global mapping

2008

• 2008-12-17: Solving how popups are clipped to viewport in Graphics View
• 2008-11-16: Font and palette propagation in Qt
• 2008-11-06: Welcome to Kinetic
• 2008-08-29: Allright
• 2008-08-06: In the flow
• 2008-05-30: Decoration items: Light and shadow effects
• 2008-05-23: The benefit and cost of a good API pattern: Property propagation
• 2008-05-12: QWidget vs. Graphics View (ding-ding-ding!)
• 2008-04-19: Last day in Porto Alegre
• 2008-04-14: Four down six to go
• 2008-04-04: Four countries in two days
• 2008-02-05: Open source embedded development: My Gumstix story
• 2008-02-05: The simple things
• 2008-01-08: Accurate update regions for thin QGraphicsItems

2007

• 2007-12-19: Popups are a can of worms
• 2007-11-22: Widgets on the Canvas Integrated
• 2007-11-12: Demo screenshot: Embedded Dialogs
• 2007-10-30: Noises from the crypt: Widgets on Graphics View update
• 2007-10-08: Back from redwood city
• 2007-09-10: My first commit to KDE SVN
• 2007-09-05: Thoughts about graphics performance
• 2007-08-13: Java GUI developers: suffer no more!
• 2007-06-27: First SSL example: Secure Socket Client
• 2007-06-06: Dialogs on the canvas
• 2007-04-02: Graphics View with layouts and widgets
• 2007-03-26: SSL with 5 lines of code
• 2007-03-16: Resolution independent UIs
• 2007-03-16: Qt 4.3 nearly supports HP-UX on Itanium
• 2007-03-09: QGraphicsView: Widgets on the Canvas
• 2007-03-01: Perspective transformations on a QGraphicsView
• 2007-02-27: Graphics View improvements
• 2007-01-21: Untransformable QGraphicsItem tags / labels

2006

• 2006-12-20: What's this? CGI?
• 2006-12-18: Hands on QGraphicsScene's index
• 2006-12-15: Interact with volatile Graphics Items
• 2006-12-14: Has anyone seen QDirIterator?
• 2006-11-30: Zoom and rotate on mouseover effect in graphics view
• 2006-09-14: Graphics View Gem: Item obscurity
• 2006-09-11: Behavioral changes in QIODevice in Qt 4.2
• 2006-08-30: 4 million items, is it really possible?
• 2006-08-26: Maybe it's just too simple
• 2006-05-27: Mouse event propagation
• 2006-05-13: Fast transformed pixmap/image drawing
• 2006-05-01: A GraphicsView sneak-peek
• 2006-04-16: Some pictures from the Road Show
• 2006-04-07: Would you implement Java in Java?
• 2006-04-07: End of 1st half of the road show
• 2006-03-29: Metal Slime King in Chicago?
• 2006-03-25: Qt Developer Road Show starting soon
• 2006-01-23: White-on-black, yellow-on-blue
• 2006-01-20: Passion and Plastique2

2005

• 2005-11-15: Pens, brushes, colors and... brushes.
• 2005-11-14: Developer Days MÜ
• 2005-10-25: Developer Days SJ 2005
• 2005-10-13: Plastique Surgery
• 2005-08-10: Playing around with XEmbed
• 2005-07-26: Qt 4.1 to include a BitTorrent network example