Today we’re proud to announce the winners of the Trolltech Open Source Development Award!
A while ago Espen announced the finalists for the award. The vote is over now and the ballots were counted (electronically).
The third place goes straight to the editor of choice: VIM. Much of Qt’s source code and documentation was loaded, edited, syntax highlighted and saved by Vim, without using the CTRL or X key at all. :wq!
Once platform dependent code is written it may be necessary to implement similar functionality on the remaining platforms. This pattern is typical for Trolltech engineers and therefore the choice of Synergy for the second place comes natural. The lines between different operating systems blur when we use the same keyboard and mouse on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. That’s very much in the spirit of Qt. As a bonus we have less keyboards and mice to clean from dust and coffee stains.
Once the code is written we submit it and move on to the next task. Unless the unthinkable happens and a bug slipped in. In the hypothetical case of a dangling pointer or memory corruption we might require our winning tool, Valgrind. We don’t need to sprinkle printf() statements into the code anymore, we don’t even need to recompile. We just run the program under Valgrind and it points straight to yoursomeone else’s source code. Hurray!
Here are the reactions from some Trolltech engineers on the results:
9 Responses to “Winners of the Trolltech Open Source Development Award”
We at Amarok were honored to be nominated. Congrats to all the winners. (Vim and valgrind are used a lot by us as well, after all)
Once we release our Windows and Mac versions, we hope your Mac and Windows developers will take advantage of our “developer tool” (they should have a soft spot for a Qt app right?) and then we’ll be more competitive. 
I tried to love Synergy, and it’s a great idea, but I never could get used to the tradeoffs associated with it. They all look fixable, too.
lol, funny movie 
Well, it’s the first time I look at Sinergy. A must_test, no doubt
@steven and @lisandro: Synergy is super-fantastic. We did heavy lobbying internally to get it to win the awards, but “sadly” Valgrind took the price :). Anyways - if you use several machines and have several screens, drop the KVM switch. Synergy is just so much better. It basically wipes away the fences between your desktops. Copy something in IE on Windows - it’s no problem to paste it into Xemacs running on your Linux machine.
To put it simply: If you’re in the cross-platform industry, you’re not pro unless you Synergy. I’m not kidding.
Vim ftw!
wow, thanks for the link to synergy - it is something i’ve wanted to have for a long time now. never stumbled upon it.
Synergy is the winner in my book!
I use three machines (when my laptop isn’t hooked up :-p), Windows, Linux, and Mac, and Synergy is the only way to go! Not to mention that it’s much faster than using a switch box all the time.
Congratulations to the winners !
Yep, Synergy deserves to be widespread.
ps: Helger, go back to work instead of playing table soccer