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Michael Hall: Dropping Letters Hackfest

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Mmmmmm, Pie....

We only have 2 days left in the Ubuntu Core Apps Hack Days!  I hope everybody who has participated has enjoyed it and found it informative and helpful.  If you haven’t participated yet, it’s not too late!  Come join us in #ubuntu-app-devel on Freenode’s IRC network anytime from 9am to 9pm UTC and ping either myself (mhall119) or Alan Pope (popey) and we’ll help you get setup and show you where you can start contributing to the Core Apps.

Today we get another chance to play while we work, because the focus is going to be on Dropping Letters, a simple, fun, yet surprisingly addictive little app written by Stuart Langridge.  Stuart has since handed off development of the app to others, but not before having it already in perfectly usable state.  Because of it’s simplicity, our list of dogfooding requirements wasn’t very long:

  • Start a new game. DONE!
  • View high scores.

Short as the list may be, it’s only half done!  We still need to integrate a high scores screen, which means we need you Javascript and QML developers!  Dropping Letters also needs to be tested, which means Autopilot, which of course means we have something for you Python hackers too!  So come and join us today in #ubuntu-app-devel and help make this great game even better.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Chris Wayne: fitbit-steps-indicator ready for initial testing

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Inspired by Stuart Langridge’s Ubuntu Edge Progress Indicator, I decided that it would be a good idea to make a new indicator.  The first thing that came to mind was my Fitbit, so that I can keep track of my steps straight from my OS.  So, I updated the account-plugin-fitbit online account, and made a new indicator to show you the number of steps you’ve made so far today.  The indicator looks like this:

 

Currently it’s not very configurable, and will show a notification once you reach your steps goal.  This is still in an alpha state, but I think it is ready to be tested by people that aren’t me.  To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwayne18/fitbit
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install account-plugin-fitbit fitbit-steps-indicator

To start, log in and log out, or simply reboot.  Any questions or comments, please email me at cwayne@ubuntu.com.  I’m currently working on fixing this up to get it into Universe for Saucy.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Stuart Langridge: Random scenes in my head from books I’ll never write

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“And who’s he?” asked Kent, gesturing at the old man.

“He’s English,” said Marvel.

“No, I mean; who is he? What’s his place in all this?”

“You misunderstand,” said Marvel. Her eyes dropped. “He is English. Not a person of English nationality. He is English. The language. The concept. The words in the mouths of those who speak it.”

Kent gave her a fishy look, not wanting to bite too hard. “What?”

“He is English. The tongue. Which is why he looks like that.”

Kent laughed mockingly. “What, he goes and complains at people for spelling ‘their’ wrong? Or misusing the word ‘literally’?”

“No. It’s not about wrongness. It’s about dying by inches. Every time you took your children to crèche rather than playgroup; every time you spoke of someone wearing a button rather than a badge; every time a thing was done per annum rather than each year, he felt it, and he shrank a little. Now it’s hard to even get him to talk to you.”

Kent stood up, looking intrigued. “Can I talk to him?”

Marvel looked up from the floor and met his eyes, which was unusual. “I wouldn’t,” she said. “He’s pretty depressing.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Stuart Langridge: Shot of Jaq (recovered)

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Oops.
A few months ago, we (that is: Jono and I, the greatest sysadmin team the world have ever known) moved various things around on various servers. And in the course of this action, we completely forgot to put the Shot of Jaq website somewhere. So shotofjaq.org currently is down.
As I say, oops.
Anyway, we haven’t lost the audio (we’re not that bad), so I trawled archive.org for all the episode descriptions and threw them together into a brief listing of all the SoJ episodes with download links. You can therefore see Shot of Jaq again at http://www.kryogenix.org/shotofjaq.html.
Sorry about that, all. We’re rubbish. Let this be a lesson to you.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Developer Week: Review of Day 3

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Unfortunately 13.04′s Ubuntu Developer Week is over. All the logs and videos are linked from the timetable, so you can still enjoy the sessions again and again. We hope you had a great time and we will see you soon again in one of our Ubuntu development channels.

Here’s what happened on day 3:

  1. Automated Testing in Ubuntu & Automated Testing Technologies — Martin Pitt did a great job of summarising the current work in the Quality Assurance team. It’s getting more and more important to automatically assure us that software we rely on still provides the functionality we expect and nothing breaks. Check out the log and get an idea of how diverse the activities are and where you can get involved.
  2. Syncing your app’s data with u1db — Stuart Langridge has been involved in Ubuntu One since ages and knows how to make app authors happy. If you want simple data storage and syncing without headaches, have a look at u1db and Stuart’s introduction to u1db!
  3. Interacting with Debian’s Bug Tracking System — You explain things best if you talk about things you make use of every day. As Stefano Rivera is both a Debian and Ubuntu developer, this talk was quite easy to deliver for him. Debian’s Bug Tracking System is a central place of exchange between the two projects and Stefano’s session will surely make it clearer to you.
  4. Building Ubuntu images & The Ubuntu Nexus 7 images — Oliver Grawert has been building Ubuntu images for various platforms for quite a few cycles already, so he knows the problems you probably run into most. His sessions give some good insight into what’s involved in bringing Ubuntu up on all kinds of devices.
  5. Fixing packages to cross-build — As a member of the Foundations team Dmitrijs Ledkovs has gathered quite some experience cleaning up problems, including build problems in the archive for a while now. Check out the session to find out how to make packages build for other architectures most easily. Get involved in fixing these issues once and for all.
  6. Developers Roundtable — Benjamin Drung and Michael Bienia were kind enough to take on the last session of UDW and answer all the remaining questions regarding Ubuntu development. Be sure to check out the log as your favourite question might well be among the ones answered. :-)

Oh, and before we forget it: join us in the Automated Testing Hackfest today!


Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu