Quickly reboot: Q&A session wrap up! Last Wednesday, we had our Quickly reboot on air hangout, welcoming the community to ask questions about Quickly and propose enhancement. Here is the recording of the session: As for the previous sessions, we had a lot of valuable feedbacks and participation. Thanks everyone for your help! Your input is tremendous to shape the future of Quickly. We are making a small pause in the Quickly Reboot hangouts, but we will be back soon! 17 August 2012
Quickly reboot: Q&A sessions! The previous Quickly reboot session about templates was really instructive! It started a lot of really interesting and opened discussions, particularly on the Quickly talks mailing list where the activity is getting higher and higher. Do not hesitate to join the fun here. :) As usual, if you missed the on-air session, it's available here: I've also summarized the session note on the Quickly Reboot wiki page. Next session: Q&A! 14 August 2012
Quickly reboot: developer feedback wrap up and templates content Previous sessions The first two hangouts on Quickly reboot about developer feedback were really a blast! I’m really pleased about how much good ideas and questions emerged from those. If you missed them, the hangouts on air are available now on youtube. Go and watch them if you are interested: I’ve also taken some notes during the sessions, here are what I think was important and came from them: hangouts notes. 06 August 2012
Time for a Quickly reboot? Quickly is the recommended tool for opportunistic developers on ubuntu. When we created it 3 years ago, we made some opinionated choices, which is the essence of the project. We had back then a lot of good press coverage and feedbacks (Linux Weekly News, arstechnica, Zdnet, Maximum PC review, Shot of jak and some more I can’t find on top of my head…) Some choices were good, some were wrong and we adapted to the emerging needs that happened along the road. 30 July 2012
Quickly: a path forward? Seeing the amount of interests we saw around Quickly the past last years was really awesome! Now that we have some more detailed view on how people are using the tool, it’s time to collect and think about those data to see how we can improve Quickly. With all the new tools available like hangouts on air, it can be also now time to experiment how we can use them and use this opportunity to have a very open collaboration process as well as trying to attract more people to contribute to it. 26 July 2012
Unity Radios lens for quantal After having worked on the local radio scope for the music lens, I spent some time with pure python3 code, which made me experiencing a bug in Dee with pygi and python3 (now all fixed in both precise and quantal) In addition to that, it was the good timing to experiment more seriously some mocking tool for testing the online part of the lens, and so I played with python3-mock, which is a really awesome library dedicated to that purpose[1]. 24 July 2012
Added rhythmbox radio support to unity music lens Just got it merged (and will be freshly available in Unity 6.0 coming soon in quantal)! I spent few hours last week to add rhythmbox radios (and writing unit tests) for the music lens. It's been a long time I didn't write some serious vala (I guess last time was for unity's Alt+F2). I confirm it's still not my favorite langage ;) Coming back to the radios, they will now show as the last row (after tracks, albums and eventually online purchase ones), and they respect (if the metadata are provided in rhythmbox) to every usual music lens filters. 04 July 2012
Cours python sur Ubuntu, débutant en programmation en ligne Bonjour à tous, je passe le message que Rick Spencer (un américain perdu en France depuis presque un an, responsable d'ubuntu engineering chez Canonical) veut lancer quelques sessions interactives[1] en français pour apprendre les bases de la programmation, en python. Python est un langage très accessible et excellent pour débuter dans ce domaine. Il permet aussi bien de créer de petits scripts que de vraies grandes applications (la plupart des applications spécifiques à ubuntu comme le software-center, update-manager, jockey, ubuntu one sont écrits dans ce language! 12 June 2012