November 15, 2011
Weird Network Setup

At the moment we are working on providing support for proxy on Ubuntu One. In order to test this correctly I have been setting up a LAN in my office so that I can test as many scenarion as possible….

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October 19, 2011
Python os.path.expanduser on Windows with Japanese users bug

Two really good developers, Alecu and Diego, have discovered a very interestning bug in the os.path.expanduser function in Python. If you have a user in your Windows machine with a name hat uses…

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October 17, 2011
Performing autoupdates with Bitrock

On Ubuntu One we use BtiRock to create the packages for Windows. One of the new features I’m working on is to check if there are updates every so often so that the user gets notified. This code on…

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July 10, 2011
Christopher Denter: Python on iPhone & iPad

I recently had the opportunity to do some research with the goal of being able to run Python on any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). The idea is to only write some Python code (and nothing…

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June 28, 2011
Txnamedpipes: using Windows namedpipes with twisted

At Ubuntu One we required to be able to use named pipes on windows for IPC. This is a ver normal process in multi-process applications like the one we are going to provide, but in our case we had a…

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