I noticed in a recent SourceForge update email that Adobe has set up a site on SourceForge for their open collaboration initiatives: http://sourceforge.net/adobe/ This is a great idea. Adobe should leverage the power of the Free Software community to make Flash perform better on Linux, these improvements will surely be able to make Flash overall [...]
It is perhaps comforting to know that some believe American Empire is not doomed to irrelevance. But much of American Industry seems bent on trying. Aside from their usual shabby treatment of their customers with lawsuits and wholesale purchase of politicians through lobby organizations, they love to write law that suits their complacency, hoping to [...]
Recently, while researching a blog post or two about how to package python apps, I’ve run across some really good resources on packaging that I’d like to point out. One is Ubuntu-oriented and the other is debian-oriented, but a deb is a deb so use which every one you prefer. The first: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Python is from [...]
OH HAI! This is a short article / post on installing Web::Simple on Debian’s testing version codenamed Squeeze. Sometimes you may not need all the powerful tools that are bundled into Catalyst, the perl web framework. But you may want to use a module or two from the CPAN that you can be reasonably sure [...]
It’s a normal day, I am being bombarded by twitter, facebook, the intertubes, et. al. and I come across a tweet from @debian mentioning the new packages available from the last few weeks. I look at what has come into debian for something interesting and there is a lot, like an ofono package. What catchse [...]
This post is an introduction to some of the higher level concepts of packaging, more about the whys than the hows. I plan to start a series of posts on the anatomy of your average deb for Maemo, but before that I wanted to go through some of the reasons for packaging so that the [...]
I wanted to do a quick blog post with some resources for packaging python apps for Maemo. The resources I’ll post here are going to be debian related since maemo packages are based on debian packages. Later on I’ll go into more detail on the differences between debian python packages and maemo python packages, but [...]
Nokia announced on a Maemo developers list that together with Intel that they have released a platform for “building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.” The code is under the GPL2 license, so it is free software. This is really exciting. Now I want someone to run out an build a web to sms gateway.
Everyone knows Sweden is the ultimate nanny state, taking care of your every whim so no one ever has to worry about anything – there is a government subsidy and law for every possible occasion. However, the price of the nanny state is constant vigilance by the nanny herself, Mother Svea. While applying for a [...]