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Re: Introduction

 

Welcome to the team.

Don't worry too much about knowing something about Qt. I am still mostly
ignorant of it, but I don't let that slow me down :)

Mik
On Mar 6, 2013 8:12 PM, "Ben Werbowyj" <ben.werbowyj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Brewtarget developers,
>
> I thought I'd send around a brief email introducing myself. Hopefully this
> is an appropriate use of the mailing list.
>
> A little background about myself - I am a long time brewer (15+ years) and
> a "part time" programmer/engineer. I like to tinker and get to the nuts and
> bolts of a process to understand it (probably the engineer in me). I have
> used a few different brewing software tools in my time as a brewer, and I
> feel that Brewtarget is up there with some of the top competitors. Most
> attractive to me is that it is open source.
>
> I've been emailing Philip over the last week or so to get some guidance in
> setting up my development environment on a Windows 7 PC. At present I have
> set up with MinGW (V4.4) and Qt4.8.4. I can build the project (somewhat
> successfully) and test out some minor changes to the code. If anyone else
> has a MinGW setup with Windows 7 I would like to talk to you about some odd
> problems I have.
>
> I have a couple of ideas of features that I believe would be a good
> addition to the software which I can expand on in later posts, and I'm
> happy to put a bit of time into some low priority bugs to get them cleaned
> up.
>
> My knowledge of Qt is limited, but I've been working through the reference
> documentation and it's very good so hopefully I can pick up what I need to
> as I investigate the code.
>
> Look forward to working with you on the project,
> Ben
>
>
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