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….
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…
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…
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…
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…