A response to Oxford Archaeology
NB This post should never have showed up in the blog feed; I never published it because my comment actually did make it onto the OA blog. A bug made it appear in the feed. Sorry for the confusion.
Slight digression from the usual photography-related content of this blog. Anyone not interested in Launchpad or my work as a developer should look away nowish. We’ll resume our usual programming shortly.
For those interested, please take a look below the fold.
Mumblemumblegrumblemumble
Bloody Northern weather. We’d planned the woodland shoot for today; I’ve found a model with whom I want to work, we’ve agreed TFCD terms and outfits and I know what I want to shoot. And then it tips it down. The forecast for this morning was for lots of rain throughout the day, so we called [...]
Inline awesome
Originally posted over at the Launchpad blog. For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they enter a long bug [...]
Random thinkings
In bullet-point form, because I’m not capable of anything else right now. Banshee is being an arse on Karmic on my desktop machine. Can’t figure out why. It freezes up when playing big files (podcasts are particularly affected by this), plays too fast sometimes (so it sounds like I’m fast-forwarding through songs) and other times [...]
Cool things I did today
Reviewed the first community contribution to Launchpad, from the omnipresent William Grant. And it was awesome, and it was fun. I think I’m going to like this open source malarkey.
Annoyances and things like them
It seems to have been a week of minor annoyances. Particularly with regard to this website. For some bizarre and as yet unknown reason the VM upon which this site resides keeps losing track of time, by up to ten hours. The upshot of this – and I haven’t been able to track down exactly [...]
A cycle full of awesome
I don’t often blog here about work, mainly because It’s not (at the moment) open source (it will be come July, never you fear). The people who aren’t reading this blog for open source-related stuff (which to be fair is probably a reasonably high proportion; after all I’ve done a lot of photography and rant-blogging [...]
That was the year that was
It’s interesting how the number of people subscribing to this blog dropped by almost half after I published this mosiac of my photos from the anti Prop8 protest in Boston and this rant about the Bishop of Lancaster. In actual fact it looks like FeedBurner can no longer see the number of Livejournal-based subscribers to [...]
Look ma, I’m on t’interweb
Talking to Tony Whitmore about Launchpad, Open Source and UDS:
Meet the meatpuppet
Matt Revell has started posting a series of interviews with the Launchpad Development Team. His interview of yours truly, Meet Graham Binns, is the first up: Matthew: What can we go and look at that you’ve done on Launchpad? Graham: The bugs pages ! Actually, a great deal of my work is work you don’t [...]
The thinking man
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 302 Danilo Segan of the Launchpad team prepares to give a lightning talk. This was one of those accidental images that just worked.
Very quickly
Very quick post because I’m supposed to be going out to photograph most of London (this may be an exaggeration; we’ll see) before too long. Of course, it would have helped if I’d actually done some organising of said photo walk; that may cause problems. It’s been a good, if very tiring week. We – [...]
Leaving on a jet plane
A cliché of a title, I know, but it’s late and I’m past being able to think about it. Yes, dear readers, I’m off on my travels again. Tomorrow I’m off to London (rather stupidly I’ve got to fly from Manchester to Gatwick because there’s no train journey that would get me to London from [...]
Bauble
The great range of apps that we see hosted in Launchpad never ceases to amaze me. Take Bauble for example: Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection information. It is a open, free, cross-platform alternative to BG-Base and similiar software. [...]
Launchpad to be open sourced
Mark Shuttleworth, spaceman, ideas man, Ubuntu founder and fearless leader at Canonical Towers announced yesterday that Launchpad will be open sourced within the next 12 months. This is pretty cool news. With Launchpad, we make a big deal of supporting free and open-source software. Our aim is to provide a central platform through which people [...]
In the loop, honest
Wow. Once again, I'm late in getting on a particular train of thought. That's not unusual, true, but I should have been slightly quicker about it this time round because a) it's something in which I'm really, really interested and b) one of my friends, whose blog I read, posted about it and I didn't [...]
Juiced
I'm waiting for Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced Juice, by the way) to download at the moment so that I can do some virtualised stuff. Well, more accurately, so that I can do some virtualised stuff without having to wait for ever and ever and ever for X to start when I don't need it. Since JeOS [...]
One of those catch-up posts
There are far too many of these these days. I don't know whether it's the fact that I'm working that's done it – as I think I've said before working from home and tracking your own time tends to make you that little bit more honest, which means I don't really want to waste my [...]
Dell and Ubuntu, sitting in a tree, etc.
The news just came through that Dell have officially unveiled two systems available in Europe (including the UK) with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on them. This is very cool, and represents another step along the road to fixing bug #1. From the press release (ubuntu.com): Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the [...]
