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Hello Unity
David Planella and I have spent the past couple of weeks gathering, cleaning and verifying Unity integration documentation that has existed on the Ubuntu wiki, individual blogs and inside the source...
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Hello Unity, episode 2
I spent some more time over the weekend working on Hello Unity. If you haven’t already, be sure to read my first post about it. In short, Hello Unity is a showcase application that demonstrates all...
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Bonjour, Hola, and Hallo Unity!
Hello Unity is now open for translations! Please help me make this technology showcase is available to application developers in your native language. Translations are done through Launchpad, and will...
View ArticleQuickly Gtk update
As part of the Ubuntu App Showdown I started on a small project to provide a nice GUI frontend to Quickly. While I was able to get it working and submitted before the contest deadline, I unfortunately...
View ArticleApp Developer Q&A Kickoff
Due to the popularity of the Ubuntu App Showdown Workshops, I plan to start holding a weekly Q&A session for all Ubuntu app developers using the same format: A live Google+ Hangout with IRC chat....
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Build a new documentation portal for Ubuntu App Developers
Back in San Francisco, during UDS-Q, we had a discussion about the need for better online documentation for the various APIs that application developers use to write apps for Ubuntu. The Ubuntu App...
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Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews
When the Unity developers introduced Dash Previews in Unity 6, I knew it was something I wanted to add to Singlet. I didn’t have time to get the feature added in time to get it into Quantal’s Universe...
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Quickly: Rebooted
Shortly after the Ubuntu App Showdown earlier this year, Didier Roche and Michael Terry kicked off a series of discussions about a ground-up re-write of Quickly. Not only would this fix many of the...
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Adding privacy setting support to your Unity Lens
During this latest round of arguing over the inclusion of Amazon search results in the Unity Dash, Alan Bell pointed out the fact that while the default scopes shipped in Ubuntu were made to check the...
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Quickly: Reborn
UPDATE: A command porting walk-through has beed added to the documentation. Back around UDS time, I began work on a reboot of Quickly, Ubuntu’s application development tool. After two months and just...
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Ubuntu API Website gets an API of it’s own
Last week I posted on G+ about the a couple of new sets of QML API docs that were published. Well that was only a part of the actual story of what’s been going on with the Ubuntu API website lately....
View ArticleGetting into Debian
Quick overview post today, because it’s late and I don’t have anything particular to talk about today. First of all, the next vUDS was announced today, we’re a bit late in starting it off but we wanted...
View ArticleRazing the Roof
Today was a distracting day for me. My homeowner’s insurance is requiring that I get my house re-roofed[1], so I’ve had contractors coming and going all day to give me estimates. Beyond just the cost,...
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My first Debian package uploaded
Today I reached another milestone in my open source journey: I got my first package uploaded into Debian’s archives. I’ve managed to get packages uploaded into Ubuntu before, and I’ve attempted to get...
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Ubuntu API Website Teardown
Ubuntu API Website For much of the past year I’ve been working on the Ubuntu API Website, a Django project for hosting all of the API documentation for the Ubuntu SDK, covering a variety of languages,...
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