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In a few days (well, if I find some kind person to take care of Iron) I will be attending the Ubuntu One Developer evening in which we should be able to hear Stuart will be talking about the bunch of crazy ideas he has for developers to use or infrastructure to do cool stuff. [...]

On of the features that I really like from Ubuntu One is the ability to have Read Only shares that will allow me to share files with some of my friends without them having the chance to change my files. In order to support that in a more explicit way on Windows we needed to [...]

A little more than a year ago I started working for Canonical full time on the Windows port of Ubuntu One. One of the great things of working for Canonical is that you work at home, that is, you do not have to move to the USA or the UK to do the job you [...]

Last week was probably one of the best coding sprints I have had since I started working in Canonical, I’m serious!. I had the luck to pair program with alecu on the FilesystemMonitor that we use in Ubuntu One on windows. The implementation has improved so much that I wanted to blog about it and [...]

At Ubuntu One we required to be able to use named pipes on windows for IPC. This is a ver normal process in multi-process applications like the one we are going to provide, but in our case we had a twist, we are using twisted. As some of you may know there is not default [...]

Pywin32 is a very cool project that allows you to access the win api without having to go through ctypes and deal with all the crazy parameters that COM is famous for. Unfortunately sometimes it has som issues which you face only a few times in your life. This case I found a bug where [...]

The last 8 years have been probably the best years of my life. It was not because I went to the University I wanted and finished the degree, nor because I had the chance to meet some great friends in different countries (Spain, Uk, Belgium, Canada…) or because we finally got our beloved pet. All [...]

At the moment some of the tests (and I cannot point out which ones) of ubuntuone-client fail when they are ran on Windows. The reason for this is due to the way in which we get the notifications out of the file system and the way the tests are written. Before I blame the OS [...]

During the past few days I have been trying to track down an issue in the Ubuntu One client tests when ran on Windows that would use all the threads that the python process could have. As you can imaging finding out why there are deadlocks is quite hard, specially when I though that the [...]

So far using py2exe has not been walk in the park with several issues so far and this time it could not be different…. The interesting issue brought to me by py2exe this time was during the runtime of a pyqt application in which the following was being print to stderr: QObject::moveToThread: Current thread (0x21a3410) [...]