Award From Qt Developers Recognizes Best Open Source Development Tools

The winner of the USD 3,000 first prize, with 28 per cent of the votes cast, was Valgrind. Valgrind is a programming tool suite for memory debugging, thread debugging, time profiling and space profiling. Trolltech’s Qt and Qtopia developers valued Valgrind’s ability to take the pain out of debugging by automatically detecting memory management and threading errors. As one Qt developer put it, “With Valgrind, there’s no need to sprinkle code with printf() statements any more. We don’t even need to recompile: we just run the program under Valgrind and it points straight to any issues.

"The project's aim has always been to provide high quality, open source debugging and profiling tools.  It's good to see our tools are proving useful," said Julian Seward, Valgrind project lead.

The runners-up, each awarded USD 1,000, were cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing tool Synergy, with 20 per cent of the votes, and editing tool Vim, with 17 per cent of the votes.

 
The Qt Open Source Development Award committee has a mission to identify the most effective, easy to use, and enjoyable open source tools in the market. Qt and Qtopia developers strive for productivity when coding and applaud open source applications that make it easier for them to develop state-of-the-art framework tools.

 
Commenting on the award, Lars Knoll, Trolltech’s VP of engineering said, “We use a lot of tools and applications as we develop new releases of Qt and Qtopia, and naturally, many of these are open source tools too. We decided it was high time to let more people know about our positive experience with those tools and to give something back to the talented developers who made them. Open source tools have contributed to make the new release of Qt 4.4 more powerful than ever. They make our working lives easier, more efficient and more fun!”

 
The Qt Open Source Development Award will be an ongoing initiative driven and voted for by Trolltech’s team of Qt and Qtopia developers as well as Qt support engineers to recognize innovative and functionality-rich open source products. 

See our Troll Labs blog post about this award

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About Trolltech:

Nokia acquired Trolltech, a global leader in cross-platform application frameworks, in June 2008. Trolltech’s Qt software allows open source and commercial customers to code less, create more and deploy everywhere. Qt enables developers to build innovative services and applications once and then extend the innovation across all major desktop, mobile and other embedded platforms without rewriting the code. Qt underpins Nokia strategy to develop a wide range of products and experiences that people can fall in love with.

About Nokia:

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.