Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators. It provides dialogs to create or modify MySQL databases, tables, and associated indexes. The results of an executed query are displayed in a resultset where the record data can be edited by the user, if the SQL statemant allows for it.

I wanted to run an Ubuntu server cloud instance locally on KVM hypervisor. I also wanted to run cloud-init on the local setup in order to experiment a bit with it

AriOS is the successor of mFatOS, an Ubuntu remaster we mouthed about a while back. AriOS 2.0 was let go of today and it’s established on Ubuntu 10.10 the fresh version tries to replicate Unity but as fought back to Unity, it’s customizable thanks to Avant Window Navigator. In AriOS, everything works out of the [...]

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The last couple of days I made some good solid progress on Photobomb: Refactored items on the goocanvas into PhotobombItems to make changes easier, and code easier to maintain.

Orta is great looking theme with light weight for your desktop. (…) Read the rest of Install Orta GTK Theme using Ubuntu PPA (71 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2010.

The Yorba folks have released a new version of Shotwell . You can snag it here .

Changes: This release disables debug output. It adds a JavaScript run toggle button to the toolbar Tags: browser, minimalistic, WebKit, GTK+ Licenses: ISC freshmeat.net Releases

Well that was a fast inform! Touchscreen is now working! Now hopefully the stability of Android can be bettered! GO TEAM #HTC-LINUX! Review style Screencast on How-to Install and use all the fresh features of Ubuntu Linux Lucid Lynx LTS 10.04 RC 32bit, demo executed inside VirtualBox Virtual Machine in Kubuntu Karmic Koala. The release [...]

I had sent out calls to the Ubuntu cloud community asking what kind of technical content or training materials (tutorials, screencasts ..etc) they were interested in seeing. I got quite some feedback that boils down to the following being the top 10 topics read more

I’m currently working on a “small” pet project (that I want to take advantage of at some point) in which I’m json serializing ( Json.Net ) a Tuple in which the Item type can be of any kind. Of course when deserializing the object, I’d like to have my object type as close as possible to its original type, that is, if I serialized a Tuple<string> I want to get the same object type and not a Tuple<object>.

Changes: The GNOME, KDE4, LXDE, XFCE, and Enlightenment (DR17) output have been merged into the Freedesktop output Release Tags: minor updates Tags: Desktop Environment, Window Manager Licenses: GPL freshmeat.net Releases

karmic 9.10 = is in the synaptic windows / mac / linux calibre.kovidgoyal.net Calibre is intended to be an accomplished e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion as well as e-book reader sync features. Calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It manages your e-book collection for you. It [...]

Earlier this year I was working with Canonical’s design team. We were putting our heads together to develop a fantastic cloud user experience in Landscape. I created a concept map to help clarify the various artefacts involved in the EC2 API.

As you probably know, starting with VirtualBox 4.0 some features are now accessible separately, in an extension pack. Here are the step-by-step instructions on instaling both VirtualBox and the Extensions Pack in Ubuntu More here Ubuntu-News Your one stop for news about Ubuntu

This was the confusing part when I first ran couchapp to create a new app, I couldn’t really see where the “entry point” of the app was. In the hope that it might help someone else I’m going to present a quick overview of the default setup

A couple of months ago, Debian project membership voted , after extensive discussion , to implement a fundamental change in the Debian community: to welcome as members people who make a valuable contribution to the project, even if they are contributing something other than source code. read more

I mentioned a while ago that I really want to see something like a dashboard in Launchpad, some kind of view that shows you everything that you must  do, everything that you are waiting on from others and all of your current work-in-progress. Launchpad could do this really well, since it has rich, inter-linked data about what’s going on and since it can show you this information for all of your projects. read more

Do you desire to instal Ubuntu On PS3, but you don’t know how to do this or where to start? If you really want to install Ubuntu on your PS3, then I will tell you exactly what you have to get, and what you have to do in order to get this done This way, [...]

Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. read more