The new Qt course will start in about two weeks in Hagenberg. The first part of the brand new materials is already available for free download.

You can expect additional modules to be added in a few weeks. Also, the corresponding exercises will be put online at a later point in time. Stay tuned and come back again soon.

Everyone who has been at the lecture about "Experiences of using Qt in Education for Mobile Computing" at the QtDevDays 2009 in Munich will know that it's a good idea to integrate Qt into the mobile curriculum. For everyone who didn't make it - the slides will also be put online at the event site in the near future.

Last but not least: don't forget to preorder the upcoming Qt for Symbian-book. My "Qt in General" chapter is a great companion to the course slides available from this site.

TagWars is a mixed reality mobile multiplayer game that uses 2D barcode tags to represent medieval villages in real life. To visit, attack or defend a village, players have to walk up to a tag and scan it.

The game has been in the queue for a long time and has now finally been released on this site. In the meantime, it has also won the mediaCUBE Games at the netdays-awards this year. Congratulations to the developers! The required server is currently not permanently running - please contact the team for more information.

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A short time after the beta-release, the final Gomoku version v1.10 is now available for free through the Ovi Store and right here.

Thanks to your feedback, several small details have been improved. Especially the navigation has been optimized, the grid size is adapted to the display size, the number of captured pairs can be defined and support for German has been added.

Gomoku is fully compatible to all S60 3rd and 5th edition devices currently on the market (all touch and non-touch devices, including the N97, 5800, E71 and N95). The final release is Express Signed, so it will install on all devices without warnings. The source code of the game is available under the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and can be downloaded on the game page.

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Following up on the new Forum Nokia Blogs-post by Lucian Tomuta, the ErrRd utility installation file that helps with finding out additional information about error messages on the device has been updated. Now, the tiny but helpful and quite popular tool (around 5.000 downloads up to now) also creates the c:\temp\swierrors.txt file, which enables more detailed error messages of the software installer on S60 3rd Edition, FP2+ devices. Helps finding out the real reason why installation of a .sis-file failed! For more information, also see the Wiki page on the new Symbian Foundation developer portal.

Gomoku (also known as Connect Five or Pente ^TM - see Wikipedia) is a traditional and very popular game that is a lot of fun and easy to play for two players. All you need is a sheet of checkered paper, a pen and a friend, and you're ready to go. Your task is to get an unbroken row of five stones in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. As you play in turns, you will usually have to think of some nasty traps in order to win.

Gomoku for S60 / UIQ lets you play this game everywhere, no matter if you have got a sheet of paper, a pen or a friend near you. It allows playing both in single player mode against a challenging artificial intelligence as well as in two-player mode. Additionally, you can freely define the board size and activate the "pair check" option, which allows to capture enemy stones.

What's new: the game has previously only been available for UIQ 3. Now, I have ported the game to S60. It works both on 3rd (N95, E71, etc.) and 5th Edition touch devices (N97, 5800xm, etc.). Compared to the UIQ version, it now features two new artificial intelligences to play against. Additionally, the game stores the settings and stats for each player.

The S60 port is currently in Beta. Please report any bugs you might find and send your general feedback to me. If no bugs are discovered, the game will be Symbian Signed and put on the Ovi Store (of course as freeware).

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