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 [...]
The impact that MeeGo will have on the mobile computing world should not be underestimated. It is a shot across the bow from two of the biggest names in computing. The message is simple: those who can develop, deploy, and market the best, win. Why would Intel and Nokia bundle up some of their most [...]
There is a pretty slick new development tool for the Maemo platform out now called MADDE. It is aimed at the Maemo sweetspot: Qt development. It works on the big three platforms, though I have only installed it on Linux. MADDE is designed to make cross compiling and generally building applications easier, and it appears [...]
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 [...]
I subscribe to the debian policy mailing list which often has some really interesting posts. This is one that I thought people would like to see, it needs wider distribution. The reason is that it is a pretty clear set of graphs showing how a package gets installed on debian and the consequences of installer [...]
Benjamin Mako Hill has written a great deal on Ubuntu and Debian and has been around both projects for a while. I just discovered a new article written by him and Kyle Rankin called Package Management in Ubuntu Server. It appears to be part of a book although I can’t tell which one. At first [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I am re-posting this job that came into the debian jobs mailing list in case anyone is interested. — The Linux-based Maemo platform is the software that powers mobile devices such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. To make the Maemo platform even more powerful, we at the Maemo SW entity in Devices R&D are [...]