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 [...]
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 [...]