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- @sil yup! in reply to sil 5 days ago
- Drew won 3rd place for most beautiful car in the district pine wood derby! #proudfather 5 days ago
- Happy Friday night hacking, writing #gwibber unit tests! 6 days ago
- @tedjgould menus are "So January" in reply to tedjgould 1 week ago
- @socialarchive please file a bug on that, thanks! in reply to socialarchive 1 week ago
- I can never let myself go a month with working out again, boot camp killed me tonight! 1 week ago
- @zernicov yeah.... i haven't figured out your bug yet :-( in reply to zernicov 1 week ago
- I have nailed the nasty memory leak in #gwibber Next up fix the #unity lens search speed. 1 week ago
- I finally made #gwibber scrolling not completely suck and significant performance improvements while scrolling as well! 1 week ago
- @ssweeny did you ever get a chance to look at the http://t.co/foub51xC bug in #gwibber you mentioned? Was it a problem posting? 1 week ago
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Category Archives: ubuntu
Gwibber logo concepts, opinions?
I’ve had a number of people suggest Gwibber could use a new logo, but nobody has actually stepped up and designed anything. Recently I had the good fortune to chat with Abi Rasheed on IRC who volunteered to help. He … Continue reading
Social Networking in Ubuntu 11.10
Today I hosted an Ubuntu Open Week session on social networking in Ubuntu 11.10. I decided to convert my notes from the session into a blog post, enjoy! Ubuntu includes a social networking desktop service, Gwibber. Gwibber isn’t new to … Continue reading
Unity meet XChat-GNOME
Everyone already knows there is plenty of nice bling in Unity and we love it. Well now we can get a little more, in the form of information displayed on top of the launcher icons. This is a very simple … Continue reading
Gwibber and Facebook, call for help!
For some time now I have been struggling with getting Gwibber working reliably with facebook. Since Gwibber was included by default in Ubuntu, usage has gone way up and we quickly exceeded our API request allocation with Facebook. Facebook allocations … Continue reading
I love what I do!
When people ask me what I do, I frequently answer with “The same thing I would do if I didn’t need to work for a living”. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to work full time on free … Continue reading
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Introducing libgwibber, lets make the Desktop social!
For a while now I have wanted to make it easier for desktop applications to integrate more with social networks, enabling users to easily interact with their friends in many different contexts. Could be posting a status update based on … Continue reading
XChat-Indicator
I recently released a plugin for XChat-GNOME (and XChat) which adds support for the messaging menu in Ubuntu. This was a fun little side project of mine, I use xchat-gnome very heavily and have really been craving integration with the … Continue reading
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009
I really enjoyed my week in Gran Canaria with all the desktop hackers, it was a great event. Such a great location for a conference. It is great to see such innovative stuff going on for the desktop. This year … Continue reading
NC Jaunty Release party
The NC Loco has planned a Jaunty release party at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh next week. If you live close enough to Raleigh, please join us. Let celebrate, Jaunty is going to be a great release. What: Jaunty Jackalope … Continue reading
Pidgin sucks less for IRC
Now that we have the message indicator applet in Jaunty, I decided to give pidgin another try as an IRC client. A little background for those that have not had the pleasure of hearing my constant complaining about how pidgin … Continue reading