Contributing to Unity for non-developers: Package patching
Bazaar is a great tool for distributed development, but distros are built on packages, and so packages are what distro developer care about. That’s why many of you who have followed my previous blogs...
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Adding privacy setting support to your Unity Lens
During this latest round of arguing over the inclusion of Amazon search results in the Unity Dash, Alan Bell pointed out the fact that while the default scopes shipped in Ubuntu were made to check the...
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Living on the Edge
So you may have heard (seriously, how could you not?) that Canonical is crowd-funding a showcase phone called Ubuntu Edge. This is very exciting for a number of reasons, which I will get to below, but...
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Ubuntu Document Viewer Hackfest
Last week was certainly an exciting one, between the Ubuntu Edge campaign announcement and several coworkers being at OSCON, I wasn’t able to keep the Hack Days going. So we’ve decided to pick up...
View ArticleMy UbBloPoMo plan
So it’s not February first yet, but what the heck I’ll go ahead and get started early. I tried to do the whole NaBloPoMo thing a year or so ago, but didn’t make it more than a week. I hope to do...
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Ubuntu API Website gets an API of it’s own
Last week I posted on G+ about the a couple of new sets of QML API docs that were published. Well that was only a part of the actual story of what’s been going on with the Ubuntu API website lately....
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Working hard in Orlando: Day 1
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m with the rest of my team in Orlando this week for a sprint. We are joined by many other groups from Canonical, and unfortunately we didn’t have enough meeting rooms...
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Everything is Awesome
Since the kids were at my parent’s house for a sleepover, my wife and I got to go out and have a date night. We saw the Lego Movie. Without the kids (both of whom love Lego). I don’t even feel bad...
View ArticlePublic speaking for introverts
Last week I attended FOSSETCON, a new open source convention here in central Florida, and I had the opportunity to give a couple of presentations on Ubuntu phones and app development. Anybody who knows...
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War on Snaps
Java is a well established language for developing web applications, in no small part because of it’s industry standard framework for building them: Servlets and JSP. Another important part of this...
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