November 2011
1 post
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….
October 2011
2 posts
Python os.path.expanduser on Windows with Japanese... →
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…
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…
July 2011
1 post
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…
June 2011
4 posts
Txnamedpipes: using Windows namedpipes with... →
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…
Txnamedpipes: using Windows namedpipes with... →
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…
Your Startup Sucks: How to (Fucking) Hire... →
startupsucks:
This is a fairly coarse article. There’s a gentler version posted here.
This is a topic that has really gotten out of hand. There are all sorts weighing in these days — along with far too much jowl waggling by middle managers and idealist super hackers.
So let’s cut the shit and get…
January 2011
2 posts
Finding open files on Windows →
Yet again Windows has presented me a challenge when trying to work with its file system, this time in the form of lock files. The Ubuntu One client on linux uses pyinotify to be able to listen to…
US Subpoenas Twitter Over Wikileaks Supporters →
Shared by mandel
Ouch, I hope I don’t get in trouble ;)
Ouch, I hope I don’t get in trouble ;)
December 2010
1 post
Network status changes on Windows with python →
At the moment I am sprinting in Argentina trying to make the Ubuntu One port to Windows better by adding support to the sync daemon used on Linux. While the rest of the guys are focused in…
November 2010
2 posts
What is wrong/right here? →
As most of you know, the Windows files system does not support a number of special characters. To be precise does characters are :”/\|?*. As you can imaging this is a problem when syncing between…
IPC between python and c# with no DBus →
Sometimes on Linux we take for granted DBus. On the Ubntu One Windows port we have had to deal with the fact that DBus on Windows is not that great and therefore had to write our own IPC between the…
October 2010
4 posts
Iron photo-shoot →
We got a puppy a few weeks ago and we finally got to take some pictures of hime, he’s been with us 2 weeks so far and he is adapting pretty well.
Who are you?
Please give me chicken!
Iron teatrero
lemongirl:
Ya me lo habían avisado, estos perros son muy teatreros, con esas caritas que ponen es muy difícil negarles algo.
Subir al sofá
Jugar con él
Dejarle jugar solo
Darle premios
Si quereis más fotos, pinchad en una de ellas
How to modify your WCF services base address... →
It is not a secret that I love Spring.Net, it just makes the development of big application a pleasure. During the port of Ubuntu One to Windows I have been using the framework to initialise the WCF…
September 2010
9 posts
Set up your devel env to work on U1 on Windows →
In one of my previous posts about the port of U1 to Windows I mentioned that setting up the enviroment to build the solution and work on it was a PITA. To solve that I have created a hideous batch…
Why is the Ubuntu One port to Windows so heavy? →
On the process on porting Ubuntu One to windows we took a number of decisions that we expect to make peoples live better when installing it.
Python
One of the most important decisions that had to…
How far are we porting Ubuntu One to windows? →
As some of you may know I am the person that is currently working on the port of Ubuntu One to Windows. Recently a colleague asked me how to install Ubuntu One in its current alpha state on Windows,…
CM features shaving animatronic bear suffering... →
A very strange TV commercial by energy company Nisshimbo, about a bear who is suffering from global warming. (Thanks, Kazu Y!)
Interesting bug when porting Ubuntu One on Windows →
I have been working for about 2 moths now and after release our internal alpha release I have found a very interesting bug. In our port to windows we have decided to try and make your live as nice…
August 2010
4 posts
code code code: Upset with Tumblr... →
Well it seems that Tumblr made some changes to their API. When you send an authentication request to Tumblr and it’s successful it will return back with XML that contains the users info. But when it fails it returns back text. This bugged me when I first ran into it about 7 months ago… At that…
No offense but to fix that is to validate the xml response and not just do a bad string...
A milkshake that tastes like pancakes →
Food company Morinaga has a new product on the market: a canned milkshake drink that tastes like their famous pancakes! Yum. Link (Thanks, Alex!)
July 2010
5 posts
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Final Retail)... →
Young Ninja →
I wonder what in the future he will be able to do =^.^=
Start a web-server for unit testing in C# →
I’m currently heavily working on Windows (oh irony) and I was confronted with a situation in which I wanted to be able to write a unit test that will access a web-page perform certain operations and…
June 2010
21 posts
How To Triple Boot MAC OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu... →
lemongirl:
Trying to radically change my life is not as easy as I expected!
Tumblr Memes
plainclothesman:
Instructions:
1. Leave tumblr for a while.
2. Come back and look at the things people photoshop in an attempt at reblogs.
3. Try and figure out the original context and motivation to be funny.
4. Think of what could have been accomplished with the many hours wasted photoshopping Keanu Reeves.
WCF inactivity timeout=infinite →
One of my last projects in Electrabel has involved the creation of a 3-tier application using the .Net framework. During the development of the application we decided to use a number of libs that we…
Guy plays Mario music live on his violin →
I just posted this over on Boing Boing:
In this video, violinist Teppei Okada plays the soundtrack to a real time Mario game live on his instrument. This — as do most creative geeky…
Where the hell am I? →
I have been away from the blog and from python and macaco-contacts for a while and some people migh have started wondering if I have given up on Ubuntu and desktopcouch, but let me tell you it is…
"Wafu" restaurant in Sydney requires... →
Yukako Ichikawa is a chef at Wafu restaurant in Sydney. It has an interesting policy: the guests have to finish all their food, or else the staff won’t clear their plates. A snippet…
Photo gallery of super narrow space-saving... →
WebUrbanist has fun little blog post about really narrow buildings in Japan. Some of them are seriously skinny. I wonder what it’s like to be inside one.