Harri Porten

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.^[citation needed]

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]

References

1. "KDE QuickGit :: kjs.git/blob". Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
2. "[KDE-Darwin] JavaScriptCore, Apple's JavaScript framework based on KJS". 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
3. Staff, OSNews. "Interview with TrollTech's Harri Porten". Retrieved 29 October 2016.
4. "QANews.com". Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2016.

External links

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