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Alan Pope: Ubuntu Scopes Contest Wishlist
We’re running a Scope Development Competition with prizes including a laptop, tablets, and a bunch of cool Ubuntu swag. Check the above link for details. I’m one of the judges, so I’m not allowed to...
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Jonathan Riddell: Do you want Catalonia to be a State? If so, do you want...
KDE Project: DCOPToday there are only six days left until I vote in the independence referendum. I usually use my personal blog for non technical bits but I thought some readers of my KDE Blog might be...
View ArticleBen Howard: GCE Anyone?
We are pleased to announce that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, and 14.10 are now in beta on Google Compute Engine [1, 2, 3].These images support both the traditional user-data as well the Google Compute...
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Laura Czajkowski: New Challenges and Adventure Awaits
Today is a good day! Decisions were made, some decisions are hard to make that require over thinking and analysing and others are a lot easier as you know they are just right! This one was easy to...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Dealing With Disrespect: The Video
A while back I wrote and released a free e-book called Dealing With Disrespect.It is a book that provides a short, simple to read, free guide for handling personalized, mean-spirited, disrespectful,...
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Raphaël Hertzog: My Debian LTS report for October 2014
During October, I spent 10 hours on paid LTS work. I should have worked 4 hours more, but for various reasons this did not happen. Instead I’ll spend 4 more hours in November.During this time, I did...
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Didier Roche: Just released Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0.1.1
In a nutshell, this release is fixing the changes introduced by the new Android Studio (0.8.14) download in beta channel.The web page changed from a md5 checksum to a sha1. We do that check as we grab...
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Canonical Design Team: Community interview: Riccardo Padovani & Filippo...
We sat down with some of Ubuntu’s unsung Community heroes at the recent Devices Sprint in Washington D.C.Riccardo and Filippo are two young and passionate developers who have adapted their own software...
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Oli Warner: Putting the Secure in SSH; easy tips to harden your shell server...
SSH is the de facto remote access technique for Ubuntu and Linux servers and yet some of the defaults you'll get from sudo apt-get install ssh can be downright dangerous in the wrong circumstances....
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Nicholas Skaggs: Autopilot Feature Primer
Autopilot celebrated it's 2 year anniversary as an independent project this summer. During that time it has developed into a useful tool for testing application UI's for gtk and qt toolkits. Support...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – November 04, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20141104 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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Sebastian Kügler: Diving into Plasma’s 2015
Sea anemone with anemone fishTL;DR: The coming year is full of challenges, old and new, for the Plasma team. In this post, I’m highlighting end-user readiness, support for Wayland as display server and...
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Oli Warner: How to build a DIY sous vide water bath for £25 in 25 minutes
Cooking sous vide can revolutionise the way you think about food but commercial water baths are expensive. For mere pocket money, you can throw together a DIY sous vide that does the job better than...
View ArticleMattia Migliorini: Pinterest for WordPress 1.0.1 speaks Lithuanian
After a very long wait, I recently released Pinterest for WordPress 1.0, which was a great improvement over the previous 0.3 version in that its code had been completely rewritten, the three separate...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Telepathy Instant Messenger 0.9 for 14.10
Our instant messaging application KDE Telepathy 0.9.0 has been released. Packages are avaialble for Kubuntu 14.10 and our development version Vivid.Bugs in the packaging should be reported to...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Ubuntu Online Summit: Vivid Edition
Ubuntu Online Summit is once again upon us. This is a community event by and for the community. It's all encompassing and intends to cover a wide range of topics. You don't need to be a developer,...
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Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in October 2014
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: How to add location awareness to your scope
Ubuntu has a solid location stack, allowing users to select which applications have access to the device location. This also applies to scopes and is very easy to add to your code.In this short...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Ubuntu Scopes Workshops
Hot on the heels of the Ubuntu Scopes Showdown start, we’re thrilled to announce the Scopes Workshops sessions to get developers kickstarted and ask all of their questions!Scopes workshops: learn and...
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Costales: Folder Color ♥ RAVEfinity artwork
Folder Color will use the professional RAVEfinity artwork for the folder icons from now!Are there more improvements? Yes :)Emblems: You can easily spotting a folder with emblems too!Icons in menu:...
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