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On the process on porting Ubuntu One to windows we took a number of decisions that we expect to make peoples live better when installing it. Python One of the most important decisions that had to be taken was what to do with python. Most of the code (probably all) of the sync daemon has been written [...]

As some of you may know I am the person that is currently working on the port of Ubuntu One to Windows. Recently a colleague asked me how to install Ubuntu One in its current alpha state on Windows, and I though that posting the instructions for the adventurous would be a nice thing to [...]

I have been working for about 2 moths now and after release our internal alpha release I have found a very interesting bug. In our port to windows we have decided to try and make your live as nice as possible in an environment as rough as Windows and to do so we allow our [...]

I’m currently heavily working on Windows (oh irony) and I was confronted with a situation in which I wanted to be able to write a unit test that will access a web-page perform certain operations and check that everything went ok. This is not the first time I have been confronted with this situation (yes, [...]

One of my last projects in Electrabel has involved the creation of a 3-tier application using the .Net framework. During the development of the application we decided to use a number of libs that we though would ease the development of the ... [More] application, this frameworks were: Spring.Net NHibernate NVelocity WCF As many of you may know already, adding high level [...] [Less]

I have been away from the blog and from python and macaco-contacts for a while and some people migh have started wondering if I have given up on Ubuntu and desktopcouch, but let me tell you it is completely the opposite! My personal life has been crazy latelly after landing my dreamed job and sorting [...]

Computer scientist should really start paying more attention to their algorithm professors at university. After reading this post in the gnome rss I found it ridiculous/amazing that a developer had to write code to actually prove a well know proven behavior in searching algorithms. That post first proves that a lot of developers always [...]

As I have mentioned several times, during my everyday job I deal with C# and although I every now and then I complain about it, I consider the language to be quite good overall. One of the things that has been bothering me is the lack of a lib to used Desktopcouch from C#! This [...]

One of the things I have had to do when I changed from using goocanvas to use clutter was the implementation of a layout that will mimic the behavior of nautilus when it uses the icon view. I though I’d share the implementation, which is very very nice compared with the code I had to [...]

For those who do not program targeting Window and Microsoft products such as SharePoint, Office, etc.. might not know what as MVP. According to wikipedia Microsoft’s MVP definition is: The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is an award ... [More] presented by Microsoft for the employees or individuals or consultants working outside Microsoft. Microsoft MVPs are exceptional technical [...] [Less]