Another lesson learned in open source cloud
During the height of the OMG Ubuntu! transition, it dawned on my that Juju was missing one key feature: an interactive front end. Eight months ago, while at POSSCON 2012 I started working on what I...
View ArticleYumani's Online Marketplace Makes Sellers Compete for Your Business
Yumani reverses the traditional model for an online marketplace by asking sellers to compete to offer the best price to consumers.
View ArticleTutorial Schedule Released, Registration Now Open at PyCon
The long awaited tutorial schedule has been released! This year's accepted tutorials include several returning veterans and a great group of newcomers, so take a look - there's a lot to learn. Now that...
View ArticleWeb Sites Offer Free Credit Monitoring
Two Web sites offer consumers free monitoring of credit report information, including alerts on new account openings and inquiries that may alert them to fraud.
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: I did not finished with Chromebook
Some time passed since my earlier post. I had to think about few things and made some decisions. I will write an installation instruction for Samsung Chromebook users about installing other operating...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Zavers Digital Coupon Service
Google have launched a new digital coupon called Zavers. The coupon enables retailers and manufacturers to reward customers with coupons relevant to their purchases. The aim is to help retailers...
View ArticleEmail Auto-Filtering: What's a Marketer to Do?
There has been a lot of conversation recently around the increasing presence of auto-filtering for managing inbox clutter. With companies like OtherInbox, SaneBox and AOL Alto, the reality of your...
View ArticleEmbracing the Online Video Ad - the Time Is Now
As the mobile space continues to transition to shorter, more interactive experiences that offer rewards and incentives for engagement, marketers need to find new ways to offer greater value.
View ArticleLubuntu Blog Box 0.41
The default icon theme, Box, has reached another completion hit, version 0.41 is one of the most all-covered and complete icon themes over there. More than 2800 objects (icons and symlinks, apps,...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Serves Both the Customer and the Business
Augmented reality is a great method to help consumers truly experience what your product has to offer. It delivers a "fun" factor no other method can, demonstrating your brand's understanding that...
View ArticleHybrid Graphics with AMD and NVIDIA in Ubuntu 13.10 and 12.04.3
In this Ubuntu release cycle I worked, among other things, on improving user experience with hybrid systems and proprietary graphics drivers. The aim was to make it easier to enable the discrete card...
View ArticleAndriy Kornatskyy: How to build Python deb package from source
You need a newer python version that is not available with the Debian package management system. You can compile it from source and install but that usually takes a lot of time. It would be better to...
View ArticleThe Washington Times lets readers test-drive new Web design
The Washington Times on Sunday unveiled a temporary test site for its new Web design that will allow it readers to test-drive many of The Times&39; new digital features and offer feedback before...
View ArticleThe Gravity of Python 2 vs Python 3
Recently there have been some discussions about Python 3 adoption. Adoption rates aren't great. There are a number of theories on why Python 3 is not adopted more and what should be done about it. I'll...
View ArticleWhich Open vSwitch?
Since Ubuntu 12.04, we've shipped a number of different Open vSwitch versions supporting various different kernels in various different ways; I thought it was about time that the options were...
View ArticleJulien Danjou: The Hacker's Guide to Python released!
And done! It took me just 8 months to do this entire book project around Python. From the first day I started writing to today, where I finally publish and sell – almost entirely – myself this book....
View ArticleSylvain Hellegouarch: The joy of distributing Python packages for Python 2 and 3
I released ws4py 0.3.4 this weekend and although I had integrated support for Python 2 and 3 for a long time now, I ran into a challenge I had quite missed. Indeed, until now my Python 3 support had...
View ArticleJeff Knupp: Don't Write Python Scripts, Write Python Libraries
When someone asks why the if __name__ == '__main__' idiom should be used, I say it's because it makes turning your "script" into a "library" a seamless thing. Novices often write a series of one-off...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Best real-time communication (RTC / VoIP) softphone on the...
The Debian community has recently started discussing the way to choose the real-time communications (RTC/VoIP) desktop client for Debian 8 (jessie) users. Debian 7 (wheezy), like Fedora, ships GNOME as...
View ArticleHowAboutWe Campaign Shows Twitter Maturity
Online dating site HowAboutWe's geo- and interest-targeting on Twitter has been shown to improve results, while a great offer doesn't hurt, either.
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