C++ and Nokia's Qt now making business news

[seasoned_geek]

http://beta.fool.com/seasonedgeek/2012/01/30/nokia-app-developers-choice/1475/

Qt is becoming the defacto standard application framework for smart
phone apps, embedded systems, and business applications. Even Ubuntu
has started using it for their Gnome development.

Now there is a book which shows how to use Qt with C#/Mono.

http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/mono_book.html

and one showing you how to interface Qt with many different databases,
a subject not documented well elsewhere.
http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/qt_book.html