Saturday, October 17, 2009

Quickly Demo Parts 2 and 3

Thanks to Jorge Castro, I now have hi def embeds for the Quickly intro videos.

As promised, here is part 2, which covers adding a toolbar in Glade and responding to the signal, as well as changing the columns in the CouchGrid:


And here is part 3, which shows how to make a debian package with Quickly:


Join us in #quickly on freenode if you have any questions whatsoever! Thanks.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Quickly Demo Part 1

Quickly is a new feature in the Karmic Koala that is designed to make it easy and fun to write, package, and share programs.

Today I made a quick video to give developers or people interested in development on Ubuntu a sense of what programming with Quickly is like. It's an 18 minute video total, so I'm splitting it into three parts. Since the video has a lot of typing, you'll probably want to run it in full screen so you can see all the good stuff.

Here's is Part 1, which covers getting an application started with Quickly:


Part 2 will show tweaking the application a bit, and part 3 shows packaging the application.

Parts 2 and 3 are now available here


The video is just supposed to be kind of a teaser, to get you interested in installing and trying Quickly? To really get started with Quickly, first, you should be running Karmic (Ubuntu version 9.10 which will be released in it's final form soon.

Then, open a terminal, and install quickly and fire up the tutorial:
$sudo apt-get install quickly
$quickly tutorial ubuntu-project

[edit]Added embed for full def video[/edit]

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Karmic as the Collaborators' Desktop


Here's a screen shot to pimp a few things:
1. This is Jono Bacon and I working together. We are video conferencing with Empathty.
2. I am sharing my screen so Jono can look at what I am working on.
3. What I am working on is bughugger, a tool that I am starting up that is a desktop-based front end to Launchpad for managing large sets of bugs.
4. And I am writing it with Quickly, a developer tool set is new for Karmic.

Karmic is rock solid for me right now. I think this is going to be the single best desktop I have ever run.

[edit] Jono has a mirror image to this post.