Laura Czajkowski: Táim sa bhaile
Táim sa bhaile – I’m home ! Finally got back into my parents house last night at 8:30pm after 107.5 hours travelling! The last leg of the journey seemed to drag on for ever. Getting the train from...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] Find of the day: pianobar
Cube-mate and friend, Kynan, put me on to pianobar today. This thing is 100% sheer awesome. A console Pandora client! No longer do I have to find the browser tab that Pandora is running in to pause...
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David Planella: Natty Translations Plans III: the Ubuntu Translations Portal
Following the series of blog posts about the Ubuntu Translations plans for the Natty cycle, this week I’m thrilled to report on the Ubuntu Translations Portal, and to announce its initial test...
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Jorge Castro: Sound Indicator news and updates
The following is a guest blog by Conor Curran: I joined Canonical early January 2010 to fill the role of Sound Architect on the DX team. Ever since I have been implementing a redesign of the system...
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Pablo Rubianes: If you travel get in touch with the LoCo
A few days ago Marcos from the Asturian LoCo Team came to Uruguay, we had some beers and pizza. But the most important thing was we met a really cool guy!!! So if you travel contact the LoCo Team near...
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Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.1 Beta packages available for Kubuntu 10.04
Just a quick note, I’d like to thank EagleScreen a bunch for doing the backporting work necessary to get QApt and Muon 1.1 beta 2 building on Kubuntu Lucid. (Packages were previously unavailable due...
View ArticleJames Westby: Introducing soupmatchers
jml just announced testtools 0.9.8 and in it mentioned the soupmatchers project that I started. Given that I haven't talked about it here before, I wanted to do a post to introduce it, and explain...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Why I Work on Ubuntu
There's been a lot of talk this year about two things. "Open Data" and "Open Web." These are seen as top priority projects by a lot of people, and I have been asked "Why don't you work on these?" *Note...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Announcing the next Ubuntu User Days Event
We are pleased to announce that the next Ubuntu User Days event is scheduled to take place from Saturday January 29th 2011, 09:45 UTC until Sunday January 30th 2011, 03:00 UTC. To quote the wiki page,...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Daily Build awesomeness
One of my favourite applications in the Ubuntu and general Open Source world is xwax. It allows me to hook up my turntables using a Native Instruments Audio4DJ device. This way I can use music I bought...
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Raphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: Mehdi Dogguy, release assistant
Picture of Mehdi taken by Antoine Madet Mehdi is a Debian developer for a bit more than a year, and he’s already part of the Debian Release Team. His story is quite typical in that he started there by...
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Stephan Adig: DC² covered by Qooxdoo, closing this year
Just found out that there is a nice review of DC² on news.qooxdoo.org.Thanks guys :)The end of the year is very close and I'm on holiday for the next three weeks now.There was a lot of stress, but in...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Canonical Sponsored Ubuntu Developer Day
Ubuntu Developer Day to be help in Bangalore, India on January 27th, 2011.
View ArticleRalph Janke: Only 4% of People Think Patents Drive Innovation
The Inquirer has currently, due to Nokia's patent suit against Apple, an Internet poll asking people about their opinion about patents. Certainly, everybody knows that such such surveys are not...
View ArticleEmma Jane Hogbin: How to pocket $5500 in 2011
I make a pretty decent living from open source ideas and software. In the last two years I've travelled across Canada, the US, Europe and down to New Zealand. It's a pretty decent life. I get asked (a...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Mastercard Taking on Functions of Courts?
According to an article on the MyCE (My Consumer Electronics) Website, the RIAA ( Recording Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have recruited...
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Matt Zimmerman: Rejoining Debian
A couple of months ago, Debian project membership voted, after extensive discussion, to implement a fundamental change in the Debian community: to welcome as members people who make a valuable...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: CSS Transitions and Percentages
I just had a rather odd experience using CSS transitions to change a div from height of zero to its full height. The experience was "It doesn't work." The div element was just popping out, which is...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Was 2010 Really a Big Year for Linux?
Sean Michael Kerner claims in this article that 2010 was a big year for Linux. However, while the FLOSS community made good strives in some areas, as described in the article, there also have been some...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: A Boomerang Beacon in Django
With the holidays coming up, I've found some free time to eliminatefinish some of this year's projects, to make room for new ones. The project I've been working on the most is actually more than 2...
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