Harri Porten Explained

Harri Porten (born 1972) is a software engineer. Porten, a KDE developer and former Trolltech employee, is the CEO of Froglogic, a consultancy company related to Qt development. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Porten originally wrote the KJS JavaScript engine for Konqueror, the KDE project's file manager and web browser.^[1] KJS was eventually used by Apple as the basis for JavaScriptCore.^[2] He also contributed to the development of KPPP, the KDE project's Internet dialer.

Porten took part in the development of Qt, a GUI toolkit used by Windows, macOS, and X11 developers.^[3]

His company Froglogic is known for Squish, a professional cross-platform automated GUI testing framework for applications written using Qt.^[4]

External links

• "People behind KDE" Interview from February 26th 2001
• photo of Harri, from same interview

Notes and References

1. Web site: KDE QuickGit :: kjs.git/blob. https://archive.today/20140423232932/http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kjs.git&a=blob&h=7e01b0b412a3622fdaf7a2eae121bafe9316a378&hb=d0940494cbafb1b2931fc6436b27a65cb4bcb3ca&f=src/README. dead. 23 April 2014. 29 October 2016.
2. Web site: [KDE-Darwin] JavaScriptCore, Apple's JavaScript framework based on KJS]. 10 March 2007. 29 October 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310215550/http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/kde-darwin/2002-June/000034.html. 10 March 2007. dmy-all.
3. Web site: Interview with TrollTech's Harri Porten. OSNews. Staff. 29 October 2016.
4. Web site: QANews.com. 29 October 2016. dead. https://archive.today/20120907053937/http://www.qanews.com/article.php?sid=125. 7 September 2012. dmy-all.