Deploying Qt based applications without the hassle.

With the advent of the Qt Installer FrameWork (QtIFW), it has never been easier to provide installers for your Qt based applications. Such installers can be either online (i.e. they fetch contents from the internet from repositories during the installation process, thus allowing updates), or offline (i.e. all the contents…

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Trick of the day: monitoring the Linux filesystem changes in “real time”

Ever wanted to monitor the filesystem changes ? Since Linux 2.6.25, the kernel provides us with a signal driven I/O notification API and the inotify-tools RPM provides a set of tools to interact with the kernel. inotify in action: a simple way to test this API is to run the…

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