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Alan Pope: Scopes Contest Mid-way Roundup
I recently blogged about my Ubuntu Scopes Contest Wishlist after we kicked off the Scopes Development Competition where Ubuntu Phone Scope developers can be in with a chance of winning cool devices and...
View ArticleWalter Lapchynski: happy Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, phillw!
I swear, I find out about some new event Ubuntu does every day. How is it that I've been around Ubuntu for as long as I have and I've only now heard about this?Well, in any case, today is Ubuntu...
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Daniel Pocock: PostBooks 4.7 packages available, xTupleCon 2014 award
I recently updated the PostBooks packages in Debian and Ubuntu to version 4.7. This is the version that was released in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) and is part of the upcoming Debian 8 (jessie)...
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Sam Hewitt: Biscotti
I'm not anyone's Nonna but I can still make good biscotti, which is something I enjoy with a nice espresso.If you don't know what biscotti is, it's a sweet, Italian twice-baked cookie/biscuit...
View ArticleDavid Henningsson: PulseAudio buffers and protocol
This is a technical post about PulseAudio internals and the upcoming protocol improvements in the upcoming PulseAudio 6.0 release.PulseAudio memory copies and bufferingPulseAudio is said to have a...
View ArticleWalter Lapchynski: git your blog
So I deleted my whole website by accident.Yep, it wasn't very fun. Luckily, Linode's Backup Service saved the day. Though they backup the whole machine, it was easy to restore to the linode, change the...
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Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #5
The quotes below are real(ish)."Hi honey, did you just call me? I got a weird message that sounded like you were in some kind of trouble. All I could hear was traffic noise and sirens...""I'm sorry. I...
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Duncan McGreggor: The Secret History of Lambda
Being a bit of an origins nut (I always want to know how something came to be or why it is a certain way), one of the things that always bothered me with regard to Lisp was that no one seemed to...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Virtual Hugs of appreciation!
Because I was asleep at the wheel (err, keyboard) yesterday I failed to express my appreciation for some folks. It's a day for hugging! And I missed it!I gave everyone a shoutout on social media, but...
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Duncan McGreggor: ErlPort: Using Python from Erlang/LFE
This is a short little blog post I've been wanting to get out there ever since I ran across the erlport project a few years ago. Erlang was built for fault-tolerance. It had a goal of unprecedented...
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Matt Bruzek: Writing tests for charms (is not that hard)
To ensure quality of the Juju charm store there are automatic processes that test charms on multiple cloud environments. These automated tests help identify the charms that need to be fixed. This has...
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Sam Hewitt: The Year of the Linux Desktop [Schism]
The phrase "The Year of the Linux Desktop" is one we see being used by hopefuls, to describe a future in which desktop Linux has reached the masses.But I'm more pragmatic, and would like to describe...
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Elizabeth K. Joseph: My Vivid Vervet has crazy hair
Keeping with my Ubuntu toy tradition, I placed an order for a vervet stuffed toy, available in the US via: Miguel the Vervet Monkey.He arrived today!He’ll be coming along to his first Ubuntu event on...
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Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 5: Touch-heavy
“U can’t touch this”[4]Source“Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me. I wanna be dirty.”[1]— Love, Your Dumb PhoneIt’s not a problem with a dirty touch screen; that would be a stretch for an entire post....
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Would you crowdfund a $500 Ubuntu “open to the core” laptop?
With Jolla have success with crowdfunding a tablet, it’s a good time to see if we can’t get some mid-range Ubuntu laptops for sale to consumers in the US. I’d like to get some idea if there is enough...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: The Community Working Group needs you?
Hi folks,Our Community Working Group has dwindled a bit, and some of our members have work that keeps them away from doing CWG work. So it is time to put out another call for volunteers.The KDE...
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Jonathan Riddell: Blog Move, Bug Squashing Party in Munich
Welcome to my blog on the updated jriddell.org, now featuring my personal blog (which has existed for about 15 years or at least before the word blog existed) together with my developer blog previously...
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Rafael Carreras: Release party in Barcelona
Another time, and there has been 16, ubuntaires celebrated the release party of the next Ubuntu version, in this case, 14.10 Utopic Unicorn.This time, we went to Barcelona, at Raval, at the very...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Blog Moved
KDE Project: DCOPI've moved my developer blog to my vanity domain jriddell.org, which has hosted my personal blog since 1999 (before the word existed). Tags used are Planet KDE and Planet Ubuntu for...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Checking Links Post-Snow
There may have been a ton of snowfall in the Lake Erie shore region susceptible to "Lake Effect" over the past week. We have had some warming up. Thankfully we haven't had infrastructure failures....
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