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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
OHAI I am going to describe how I installed Catalyst, the surprisingly spicy web framework, written in perl. Since I use debian, and I prefer to develop on sid, this blog will refer to the installation of Catalyst on squeeze/sid. Squeeze is the Testing distribution of debian, one day it will become debian 6.0 when [...]
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 [...]
demo showing synergy sharing a keyboard and mouse with OS X and a Nokia N810