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In this blog post I will go through the process of building a 32 bit Qt 5.4 with OpenSSL support on Windows.

XML or JSON? This post will describe the metrics, methodology, present the data, draw a conclusion and offer the entire codebase for download.

Signals and slots were one of the distinguishing features that made Qt an exciting and innovative tool back in time.

If we consider this the wrong approach in C++, isn’t it wrong in QML as well? This blog post will discuss best practice of building QML components.

Sometimes you have to stop a class from emitting a signal for a while. The solution is quite standard and have been published in other blogs as well, but tend to miss one or two features.

Implementation of a simple tool tip component in QML.

If none of the four standard positioners (Column, Row, Flow, Grid) work for you, you can write your own.

A simple and clean solution to using a QAction and set a keyboard shortcut to handle Ctrl + Return in text edits.

When debugging XML code, you often wonder about the contents of a subtree. To view the contents of a subtree, you can use this simple function.