My migraines

Weird Network Setup

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:14:10 +0000

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

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:38:28 +0100

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

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:15:21 +0100

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

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:12:10 +0100

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

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:33:09 +0100

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…

Txnamedpipes: using Windows namedpipes with twisted

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:52:52 +0100

Txnamedpipes: using Windows namedpipes with twisted:

Your Startup Sucks: How to (Fucking) Hire Developers

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:44:55 +0100

Your Startup Sucks: How to (Fucking) Hire Developers:

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…

moviesinframes: The Big Lebowski, 1998 (dir. Joel and Ethan...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0100

moviesinframes:

The Big Lebowski, 1998 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

By area39

Finding open files on Windows

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:02:55 +0000

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

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:09:16 +0000

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 ;)

Network status changes on Windows with python

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:17:12 +0000

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…

What is wrong/right here?

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:53:00 +0000

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

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:52:17 +0000

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…

thedailywhat: BAMF of the Day: Bill Murray accepts the Scream...

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:29:16 +0100

thedailywhat:

BAMF of the Day: Bill Murray accepts the Scream Award for best horror movie on behalf of Zombieland while decked out in full Ghostbusters gear.

Good thing it was caught on camera or no one would have believed it.

[ap / ls.]

Iron photo-shoot

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:37:36 +0100

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

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:35:03 +0100

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 dynamically

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:38:35 +0100

How to modify your WCF services base address dynamically:

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…

Set up your devel env to work on U1 on Windows

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:28:55 +0100

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?

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:33:01 +0100

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…

Photo

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:34:51 +0100