Checkbox challenges for 2015
Having a less packed day for the first time in a few weeks I was thinking about the next steps for the Checkbox project. There are a few separate big tasks that I think should happen over the next 6-18...
View Articlepyotherside = QML + Python3
If you wanted to write a QML / Ubuntu SDK application but had a considerable amount of python3 code that you didn't want to throw out the window you can find pyotherside utterly fantastic.In short, you...
View ArticleMoving to my own email address
So I've been using Gmail for a good while. I have three accounts, one personal, one for Canonical personality and one dead for my Linaro personality.Using Google products with more than one account is...
View ArticlePyotherside + QML + Python3 in practice, checkbox-touch code walkthrough
If you're interested in python3, QML and pyotherside you then you might be interested in this video I've recorded about checkbox-touch. Checkbox touch is a prototype application built with QML and...
View ArticleLive coding videos
Today I was experimenting with coding live, on air with google hangouts. It is an interesting idea IMHO as it adds visibility to a process that is done in the open but rarely transparently in a way...
View ArticleLive Coding Experiment
Hey.Last week I've started doing recording videos of me, coding, live with screen sharing and background context on everything I do. I did this to increase transparency of FOSS development as well as...
View ArticleCheckbox Project Insights
Another day behind us. Another day hacking on the Checkbox Project.Today we got a few issues on the 3.2 SRU kernel for precise. I've recorded a short explanation of how the SRU process looks like from...
View ArticlePersonal annoyance personified: we need a Serial Manager
This is a personal annoyance of mine. Everything involving a serial line is preceded by "sudo stop modemmanager". Given that we're talking about a free desktop things should not have to require...
View ArticlePEX, distribute your standalone python executables
I just discovered PEX. It's pretty simple conceptually. Bundle all your python 2/3 modules in a ZIP file. Add a __main__.py inside with bootstrap magic and set the interpreter to #!/usr/bin/env python*...
View ArticleAnnouncing Morris 1.0
Earlier today I've released the first standalone version of Morris (source, documentation). Morris is named after Gabriel Morris, the inventor of Colonne Morris aka the advertisement column. Morris is...
View ArticleLaunching a process to monitor stdout, stderr and exit code reliably
Recently I'm fixing a rather difficult bug that deals with doing one simple task reliably. Run a program and watch (i.e. intercept and process) stdout and stderr until the process terminates.Doing this...
View ArticleUpdate on python-glibc
My pure-python bindings to glibc are progressing at a nice rate. I've made some interesting changes today that I'd like to share.First, there is a clear difference between the raw glibc functions (all...
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Checkbox [Touch] 1.0.2 now available in the Ubuntu click store.
This is a re-post from my G+ post but I think it's such an important milestone that we should let everyone know about it :-)Hello everyone. After a bit of silence I'm super pleased to announce that...
View ArticleThe story of a certain one liner that failed in doctests
This is a pretty long story. Unusually enough, I'll let the code speak: """This module is the result of an evening of frustration caused by the need tosupport Python 3.2 and a failing doctest that...
View ArticleCheckbox Enchancement Proposal 8: Certification Status update
I've sent an update to checkbox-dev mailing list on th progress of implementation of CEP-8. Here's the summary if you want to quickly follow that:spec doneneed to finish xparsers to handle new override...
View ArticleAnnouncing Padme v1.0
HiI've just released Padme (named after the Star Wars character).Padme is an implementation of mostly transparent proxy class for Python. What is unique about it is the ability to proxy objects of any...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing help needed! Share your /sys/class/backlight please!
I'm working on a little mini-project that deals with back-light.I've read the kernel documentation I could find [1], [2], [3], [4] and I poked all my systems to see what values are produced. I only...
View ArticleLantern
So you've probably seen my earlier post asking for data contributions.This quick post is a follow-up to that, to say Thank You to everyone that contributed data, shared my post or replied with useful...
View ArticleIs max_brigthness coming from a random number generator?
First off, thank you for sending contributions to Lantern. Please keep them coming, we really need more data for meaningful statistics.Now for the main dish: I wonder what's the cause of the seemingly...
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