The Raving Rick

The diary of a dedicated Ubuntu user that lucked into his dream job working on the Ubuntu team.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Big Rocks of August

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Have you ever heard the phrase "If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all"? It's f...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Passing and Being Passed

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Buckley. A dog I get to pet, but do not have to walk! Co-Working Change My Life I got some feedback from my wife and kids last week...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Social Phone

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Yesterday I blogged about how psyched I was to have cellular data on my phone. Then I listed some things that the Ubuntu Touch needed to ...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Dog Fooding Success

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Last week I was in Washington DC house hunting (successfully, I might add ;) ). Since I abandoned my Android phone for full time Ubuntu To...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

all dogfood diet

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Yesterday I walked to my local t-mobile store and had them cut my SIM down to "micro" size. I did this so I could fit it into ...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Dogfood Update

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At the end of April, we set the goal to have Ubuntu Touch be dogfoodable on the Nexus and Nexus 4 phones. By that we mean, the goal is t...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Feel Like Friday (post-vUDS)

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It feels like Friday! Why? I think it's because I am tired. I am tired because Virtual UDS turns out to be surprisingly intense. P...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

A little bit of reusable code Sound Button

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Want a button for Ubuntu Components that plays a sound when pressed, and stops when released? Here's SoundButton . Perfect for your typi...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Woof woof!

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Last week I fell into a discussion with Mark, Pat, and others about the importance of being able to really use a piece of software to ...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan, or How an App Developer Benefits from Designer/Developer Collaboration

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Last week I snatched an hour here and there to work on my Feedzilla app. I like Feedzilla because it has an api that is free for me to use...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

FingerPaint, my 20 minute app

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Here's a quick demo of using InkCanvas. First I create a rectangle to fill the window to make everything white. Then I made an InkCa...
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Introducing InkCanvas

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So, I drew a beard on Tard today!  Furthermore, I did it with just a few lines of QML. Here's the whole program for drawing on Tard .....
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Easy Task Navigation With PageStack (Fixed)

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Thanks to an update to the documentation for Ubuntu Components , I discovered that I was using PageStack all wrong. I've gone ahead and...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

ListView with JSON model (and the world's ugliest application)

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First, I want to extend my deepest apologies for how ugly this app is at the moment. It's embarrassing. Sorry. I will put lipstick on i...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

User Interaction with Ubuntu Components

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I am so very able to amuse myself with all these funny pictures, but there are other amusing subreddits other than funny. So today I add...
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Time Waster Turbo Charge

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After my post yesterday about browsing 9gag.com, I decided I should make an even more efficient time waster. Way back in the day, I made ...
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I am currently the VP of Ubuntu Engineering (but strangely, I am no engineer ... )
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