UDS-L, Dallas Day One

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Tue 17 November 2009}

Well, I finally made it to a Ubuntu Developer Summit. It’s been great to put some faces on the names I interact with on mailing-lists and read in changelogs.

I don’t really have much to pontificate on so this will be quick, but there are a couple things …

Bazaar Explorer 0.9.0 Now in PPA

meta = {'category': Uncategorized, 'date': Wed 04 November 2009}

One of the things that I’ve always loved about bzr is that it is a powerful yet intuitive solution for version control. Now Bazaar Explorer, a wonderful cross-platform Qt-based GUI front-end to the Bazaar VCS, is making it even easier. Whether you’re just getting started with DVCS or …

GNOME-Colors in Karmic

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Wed 08 July 2009}

With hundreds of thousands of downloads on GNOME-Look, GNOME-Colors (and its friends Shiki-Colors and Arc-Colors) is with out a doubt one of the most popular themes around for the GNOME desktop. It’s no surprise with  six different color themes and the ability to match you icon theme …

PPAs and Daily Builds

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Wed 10 June 2009}

So earlier today I was throwing together a script to publish bzr snapshots to a PPA. My use case was pretty simple. It’s a debian native package. So the packaging and upstream are one and the same, so no need to merge branches or make sure patches apply cleanly …