RETRO: The Linux Action Show! s9e02 | Jupiter Broadcasting
Great show, and don't miss the other shows they have :). The show about Beer is cool :D
Jul 5, 2010
Jul 4, 2010
OMG! Ubuntu is great!
I really like reading OMG! Ubuntu. The information there is great and I wouldn't know about a lot of fancy new things without them. I read a lot of interesting sites about gandgets, geekdom and other nerdy topic related sites/planet feeds. But it has been a long time since I found a site that I like as much as OMG Ubuntu. Its new Ubuntu stuff for the enduser. Far better then what I've found on the Ubuntu/Gnome planet feeds. And by far better I mean easier to use for an enduser. Most of the time its very simple to get the stuff running on your own Ubuntu machine.
I still doubt that a novice user would get everything on that site to work (or that he even should). Sometimes the terminal is still needed. But for a technically interested user its doable. A lot of bloggers/sites just do this wrong. They require their users to have knowledge that they usually don't. Cmdline should be avoided at any cost if you want normal users to try what you post on your blog. E.g: some write a terminal apt-get install line. That can be done over a single click link as well. Of course you need to click on that link from your Ubuntu install but thats what people usually do if they try something new.
I think there's a lot of cmdline out there that could easily be avoided. This makes it look fare more complex to install a simple software on Ubuntu than it actually is. And yes, I know cmdline isn't hard, its just that most normal users aren't used to it. This makes it look hard for them (if it really is or not doesn't matter, most of the time they aren't going to even try). Hope that this changes soon ...
I still doubt that a novice user would get everything on that site to work (or that he even should). Sometimes the terminal is still needed. But for a technically interested user its doable. A lot of bloggers/sites just do this wrong. They require their users to have knowledge that they usually don't. Cmdline should be avoided at any cost if you want normal users to try what you post on your blog. E.g: some write a terminal apt-get install line. That can be done over a single click link as well. Of course you need to click on that link from your Ubuntu install but thats what people usually do if they try something new.
I think there's a lot of cmdline out there that could easily be avoided. This makes it look fare more complex to install a simple software on Ubuntu than it actually is. And yes, I know cmdline isn't hard, its just that most normal users aren't used to it. This makes it look hard for them (if it really is or not doesn't matter, most of the time they aren't going to even try). Hope that this changes soon ...
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Jun 26, 2010
Jun 23, 2010
Jun 22, 2010
Nautilus Mockups
The perfect File Manager? | OMG! Ubuntu!
very nice design, would love to see that implemented in gnome :). Very Chrome like ^^
very nice design, would love to see that implemented in gnome :). Very Chrome like ^^
Jun 10, 2010
User Experience Advocates
Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project < The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty: "User Experience Advocates"
Sounds like a very good thing to me ..
Sounds like a very good thing to me ..
Jun 9, 2010
Jun 7, 2010
ASP.NET Control Development
just needed a good source that explains a little more complex custom ASP.Net controls. I found this link to be a great source of information on that topic:
A Crash Course on ASP.NET Control Development: Template Properties
A Crash Course on ASP.NET Control Development: Template Properties
Jun 4, 2010
Currently annoying things
Things that I'm annoyed at:
* Software Patents. As log as they exist innovation and the evolution of all our software is slowed down and in some cases even destroyed. Of course the ones with the biggest problems are small companies closely followed by open source projects. They have no chance against a patent giant. The video-codec mess comes to mind, or exFAT on SDXC cards.
* Browser wars. They are sooo 1990. People need to inform themselves more, no one would use IE 7- anymore. I have still hopes but people tend to be soo lazy. HTML5 at least seems to move fast everywhere except IE of course. If you use Opera/Firefox/Chrome or Safari just makes no big difference as it should be the case. Who cares what you use as long as it works fast and looks the same everywhere.
* State of music/movies. I wanna buy music, but I'm not gonna do that with the current system. It just sucks, its too complicated. Not to start with how expensive it is to buy something. I have hopes that they manage to at least get into the evolving cloud stuff. My music everywhere, that's great. If they would start to make it really cheap to buy a song people would get crazy for that. They need to make it so cheap that the gain of illegally downloading a song is just too small. I mean why should I use my time to search for a illegal copy if I can just pay 10 cent and have the song without any work involved besides searching for it on a internet platform.
* Hardware vendors which try to be software companies. Means they make closed source drivers and do a horrible job at that. Creative comes to mind ..
* Ruby. Great language, but why is everyone using python these days? Python makes so ugly code compared the the freedom you have in Ruby. I would any day choose ruby over python if the language is the only deciding point. Also, I couldn't use python in any big project. Its just too hard to maintain. Too much work on keeping the code clean. Don't get me wrong, python is great but ruby is just better so why not choose the better language?
* Android fragmentation. Fragmentation is a natural thing in Software and only a very small problem. There is only one platform which keeps fragmentation small that's Apple and its iPhone/iPad. But that's all explained very simple: Apple tells you what you can use and have, not you. You buy an Apple product and Apple decides what you do with it no one else. With Android (and other systems like WinMo) you (and the companies using it on their devices) have the freedom. I have Android 2.1 on ma HTC Hero, no problem just a bit of following instructions. HTC will soon release a official 2.1 for Hero. You just can't do that with an Apple product without a lot of work.
* Software Patents. As log as they exist innovation and the evolution of all our software is slowed down and in some cases even destroyed. Of course the ones with the biggest problems are small companies closely followed by open source projects. They have no chance against a patent giant. The video-codec mess comes to mind, or exFAT on SDXC cards.
* Browser wars. They are sooo 1990. People need to inform themselves more, no one would use IE 7- anymore. I have still hopes but people tend to be soo lazy. HTML5 at least seems to move fast everywhere except IE of course. If you use Opera/Firefox/Chrome or Safari just makes no big difference as it should be the case. Who cares what you use as long as it works fast and looks the same everywhere.
* State of music/movies. I wanna buy music, but I'm not gonna do that with the current system. It just sucks, its too complicated. Not to start with how expensive it is to buy something. I have hopes that they manage to at least get into the evolving cloud stuff. My music everywhere, that's great. If they would start to make it really cheap to buy a song people would get crazy for that. They need to make it so cheap that the gain of illegally downloading a song is just too small. I mean why should I use my time to search for a illegal copy if I can just pay 10 cent and have the song without any work involved besides searching for it on a internet platform.
* Hardware vendors which try to be software companies. Means they make closed source drivers and do a horrible job at that. Creative comes to mind ..
* Ruby. Great language, but why is everyone using python these days? Python makes so ugly code compared the the freedom you have in Ruby. I would any day choose ruby over python if the language is the only deciding point. Also, I couldn't use python in any big project. Its just too hard to maintain. Too much work on keeping the code clean. Don't get me wrong, python is great but ruby is just better so why not choose the better language?
* Android fragmentation. Fragmentation is a natural thing in Software and only a very small problem. There is only one platform which keeps fragmentation small that's Apple and its iPhone/iPad. But that's all explained very simple: Apple tells you what you can use and have, not you. You buy an Apple product and Apple decides what you do with it no one else. With Android (and other systems like WinMo) you (and the companies using it on their devices) have the freedom. I have Android 2.1 on ma HTC Hero, no problem just a bit of following instructions. HTC will soon release a official 2.1 for Hero. You just can't do that with an Apple product without a lot of work.
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