Monthly Archives: February 2011

This week in L10nhart

Posted by on February 24, 2011 Comments Off

I decided to start posting weekly updates on L10nhart, but I’m not sure how long I’ll actually keep this up.

First up, as you can see above, @gu1dry made a new L10nhart logo. The old one didn’t look so great on a brown background.

Next up, Twitter (and coming soon: Facebook!) login support. The reason I added Twitter logins so early in the project is because another project I am working on (on my $PaidJob) required them, and I took the opportunity to learn about the APIs and implement them on L10nhart.

Besides Twitter and Facebook, I was thinking on adding Google Account support later. Not sure what other popular account systems are worth adding, but even if you don’t have a Twitter, Facebook or Google account, you can still register and login the “old fashioned” way.

What else has been keeping me busy? General bugfixes all over the place, CSS improvements, ah yes, the @l10nhart Twitter account is up and running, as well as a Facebook page.

The reason for these is quite simple: They’re a requirement to get the API keys needed to implement the login system. I’ll post status updates to both, so you can keep up to date with news, if you don’t follow this blog or my Twitter account (@ElNushio).

Finally, ETAs (Estimated Time of Arrival). There’s a reason why CyanogenMod has as its first rule: Don’t ask for ETAs. Software development speed is sometimes unpredictable. Took me about a day to learn and implement the Twitter API (Go ahead, brag about how it only took you 10 minutes). I had estimated an hour or two.

What I’m trying to say here is that there’ll be no more ETAs. It’ll be ready once it’s ready, but it’s coming soon.

Law & Order

Posted by on February 24, 2011 Comments Off

I was poking around fortune, and it spit out the following phrase:

Gates’ Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.

I’d like to propose another one:

Gnome’s Law: Every 6 months, the number of options available halves.

CyanogenMod Emulator Update

Posted by on February 21, 2011 3 comments

Disclaimer: I am not allowed to call this image “CyanogenMod” as I am not part of the team. This is only a kang.

One of the main reasons people visit my site is to check out the CyanogenMod Emulator packages I made about a month ago. I updated the images a few days ago, since CyanogenMod is hitting RC already.

There’s a lot of features now that were missing from my previous build, for instance the Theme Chooser, the DSP Manager, and a whole lot of options under Settings -> CyanogenMod Settings.

To install, simply run the Android AVD Manager you’re already familiar with, and under Available Packages, click Add Add-on Site and type:

http://nushio.fedorapeople.org/cyanogenmod/repository.xml

If you already have the previous version of the emulator, an update for the emulator should show up under ‘third party add-ons’, download it and it should work. If it doesn’t, delete the old version and download the new one.

L10nhart: Status Update

Posted by on February 17, 2011 Comments Off

For the past 36 hours or so, I’ve spent a lot of my time working on L10nhart.

The reason for this is that I made a bet with Gu1dry that I’d have a usable version of L10nhart in around 36 hours, and 36 hours later, how’d I do?

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Fedora: Rally for Sanity

Posted by on February 9, 2011 6 comments

The one sign to rule them all?

If you’ve been living ‘outside’ Planet Fedora, or don’t pay much attention to it, there’s been a huge discussion that has divided Fedorians in two camps:

Those that want Fedora for ‘Power Users’ and Those that want Fedora for All.

A lot of very nasty insults and jabs have been made, mostly from the first side to the second one, and it needs to stop.

If there’s one rule that Fedora actively enforces its:

Be Excellent to each other.

If you can’t say for sure you’ve been ‘excellent’ towards other Fedora contributors, perhaps its time to take a day off and rethink why you’re contributing at all.

During FUDCon Tempe, Jared Smith (The Fedora Project Leader) said during his speech

We’re not building a bigger distro. We’re building a better distro.

A better distro. It doesn’t matter if my dad uses it, or if girl scouts use it, or if Torvalds uses it.
Why do we have to limit ourselves to some small segment of people? Why should we fit inside some ‘Target Audience‘?

It’s time we all rallied under a single banner:

HOTDOGS FOR ALL

The mustard represents progress

FUDCon Tempe: I’d like to continue hacking, but my hands really hurt

Posted by on February 9, 2011 Comments Off

During FUDCon Tempe, I managed to “Live IRC” a couple of the sessions I assisted. Throughout the week, I intend to publish a summary + pictures of the talks I assisted. The following is a paraphrasis of the talk. These pictures (CC-BY-SA) were taken by Tatica using her kick-ass Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS camera.

Mel Chua and Sebastian Dziallas(Pictured) co-presented this talk.

If you’re reading this, odds are you’d like to know how to extend your “typing time” on your computer. Mel and Sebastian did a great job outlining a lot of ways you can get more mileage out of your hands. The talk was extremely lively, which meant I didn’t transcribe a word of what they said, only general notes and topics of interest.

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FUDCon Tempe: Fedora Trademarks

Posted by on February 8, 2011 1 comment

During FUDCon Tempe, I managed to “Live IRC” a couple of the sessions I assisted. Throughout the week, I intend to publish a summary + pictures of the talks I assisted. The following is a paraphrasis of the talk. Quotes may not be 100% accurate.The pictures (CC-By) were taken by myself by a Nexus One cellphone, while attempting to transcribe. Excuse the blurriness. Missed Part 1? Click here.

Pam Chestek talked about Fedora Trademarks: Red Hat, What have you done for me Lately?

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FUDCon Tempe: Red Hat Legal Talks

Posted by on February 7, 2011 10 comments

During FUDCon Tempe, I managed to “Live IRC” a couple of the sessions I assisted. Throughout the week, I intend to publish a summary + pictures of the talks I assisted. The following is a paraphrasis of the talk. Quotes may not be 100% accurate.The pictures (CC-By) were taken by myself by a Nexus One cellphone, while attempting to transcribe. Excuse the blurriness.

Richard Fontana: I am a Fedora User. I have Fedora 14 installed on two laptops and a desktop, and I run F13 on a VPS

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Fedora Packagers Cube

Posted by on February 7, 2011 3 comments

Man's best friend?

A while ago, I created a Fedora Users Cheat Cube, some sort of a Cheat Sheet, in Cube form, which is something that can be handed out in events.

For FUDCon Tempe, I decided to create the Fedora Packagers Cube, and handed out about 10 of these. Mat Booth already built his, and you can have your own. The PNG and SVG have been uploaded to Fedora’s Marketing Collateral page.

I hope Packagers find these useful, and if there’s any bugs on the cube, feel free to let me know so I can upload a v0.2