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Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 4

Yeah! It's already the 4th zoom of your Quickly trip and it's about shell completion. Complete everything quickly Quickly has an advanced shell completion tool. Currently, it's only binded to bash but plans are up to catch other shells (it's very easy, just call quickly shell-completion $0 from a script and perform little black magic to know the context). You can reread part 2 if you want to understand every cases described below.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 3

Here we go for another topic on Quickly tour! This chapter will be really fast to read compared to last one. Getting some help with Quickly Quickly has an builtin help command that can help you to retreive help from whenever command. Inside a project You can search directly help for builtin command and the ones from the associated template of your project. template commands In a ubuntu-project "templated" project, simply do:

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 2

This session is giving some fundamentals on Quickly, let's dive into them! Two components: core and template There is mainly two parts in Quickly: Quickly Core is a command line parser and context checker. It has builtin commands and can handle and launch template commands. Quickly templates are group of commands and files that are used on a certain purpose: you can create templates to manage your documents, a LaTeX skeleton, or to easily create projects gathering a certain number of technologies.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 1

Here is a suit of little blog posts regarding the Quickly application. Even if an awesome presentation by Rick Spencer has been done during last Ubuntu Developers Week, we will get there a little deeper on Quickly’s technical side and possibilities. We won’t enforce the tutorial side as well as there is already a rocking one in Quickly itself. First, what is Quickly? Taken from Launchpad: Quickly helps you create software programs (and other things) quickly.

Design experience and demos in GTK and Clutter

Well, coming back from vacation, I had a couple of hours to "kill" in the train. I saw a few days ago the awesome work of Davyd Madeley on animating GTK+ and Clutter-Gtk from client-side-windows based on the first step from Alexander's Larson. Reading the comments some people say "this is sooooo cool, but totally unuseful". That's the reason why I tried to figure out some pratical examples where some animations can teach about the component/widget the user is currently interacting with.

Changement de licence : just in time!

Comme annoncé précédemment, la documentation d'ubuntu-fr vient de passer en CC:BY-SA 3. Ce grand pas dans la simplification des licences nous permettra d'avoir une politique de licence plus claire à l'avenir. Or[1], une nouvelle fois, sur un tel type de wiki ouvert à tous en écriture, nous tenons sur votre participation et votre plus grande vigilance dès que vous copiez un texte afin de respecter des licences et copyright des auteurs initiaux, concept au cœur même du logiciel libre.

Changement de licence de la documentation d'ubuntu-fr

Vu que le site http://suivi.ubuntu-fr.org est tombé et n'est pas prêt de revenir à la vie, L'association ubuntu-fr vous fait passer les informations dorénavant par ce canal. Comme certains le savent sûrement, le wiki d'ubuntu-fr est actuellement sous double licence GFDL et CC:BY-SA. Or ces deux licences sont incompatibles (et notamment la GFDL oblige de lister le texte complet de la licence du wiki sur chaque page, ce qui n'est pas des plus commodes, vous en conviendrez).

In the heart of the French Ubuntu Party

This is the transcript of kinouchou, a recent member of ubuntu party core team organizer, experiencing her first ubuntu party on the organizer side last May, for Jaunty Jackalope. (Credit to tshirtman for the translation) I started using Ubuntu 3 years ago, without ever being active in the community. After I went to the Ubuntu Party of November in Paris, I decided to take my share of community work. Even if I was well aware a Ubuntu Party (UP) was not improvised, I had not the slightest idea of all the connections under the hoods about the whole management.