Mark Summerfield's Writing & Software	Qtrac Ltd. (home page)
Mark is an independent trainer, consultant, and technical editor and writer, specialising in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt. Mark is a qualified teacher and graduated with first class honours in Computer Science from the University of Wales Swansea, UK. Prior to starting Qtrac Ltd., he spent many years in the software industry working as a programmer, consultant, technical writer, and editor.
Books Advanced Qt Programming (ISBN 0321635906) by Mark Summerfield— due to be published Spring 2010 (Safari Rough Cut available now) Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (Second Edition) (ISBN 0321680561) by Mark Summerfield Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (First Edition) (ISBN 0137129297) by Mark Summerfield. Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish translations are now available, with Chinese and Japanese translations in the works. Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming (ISBN 0132354187) by Mark Summerfield. A Chinese translation is in the works. C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (Second Edition) (ISBN 0132354160) by Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield. Chinese, German, Korean, and Russian translations are now available. The examples and the entire book in HTML are available free from InformIT. C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (First Edition) (ISBN 0131872494) by Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield. This book is available in PDF format under the Open Publication License, PDF in a ZIP (5.6 MB, unzips to 51 MB). Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Russian translations are available. C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 (ISBN 0131240722) by Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield. This book is available in PDF format under the Open Publication License, PDF in a ZIP (2.4 MB, unzips to 32 MB), or PDF (22 MB). German, Japanese, and Russian translations are available.
Open Source Software Alt_Key, a GUI application for calculating keyboard accelerators for menu option texts and dialog labels. DiffPDF, a GUI application for comparing PDF files page by page, both textually and by their appearance. Sandbox, a GUI application for experimenting with Python 2 and for editing Python 2 code.
A Selection of Other Writings Moving from Python 2 to Python 3 a "cheat sheet" for Python 2 programmers written for InformIT (PDF, 676K) Python Descriptors an InformIT article A Practical Introduction to PyQt's Undo/Redo Framework an InformIT article Qt 4's Model/View Delegates an ICS Whitepaper covering Generic Delegates and Abstract Column Delegates (Qt 4.2 introduced new methods that can be used to achieve the same effect) Libraries and Plugins a Qt 4 article in Qt Quarterly Data Models: SQL Table vs. Flat File a Qt 4 article in Qt Quarterly Guarded Pointers in Qt 3 and Qt 4 a Qt 3 and Qt 4 article in Qt Quarterly Automatic Dialogs a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (The ideas in this article are still applicable in Qt 4) Optimizing with QPixmapCache a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (The ideas in this article are still applicable in Qt 4) Mandatory Fields a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (For Qt 4, see the QAbstractItemModel's setData() and flags() methods) A String List Editor a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (For Qt 4, see the QStringListModel class) Laying out MDI Children a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (The ideas in this article are still applicable in Qt 4) Fancy List Items a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (For Qt 4, see the QAbstractItemModel's data() method) Implementing a Popup Calendar a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (For Qt 4, see the QCalendarWidget class) Customizing for Completion a Qt 3 article in Qt Quarterly (For Qt 4, see the QCompleter class)
Mark uses a desktop computer that runs Fedora/GNOME, a Toshiba A110 laptop running Kubuntu, and a MacBook running OS X for testing.
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