Android Presentation
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
I suppose it’s time to start thinking about my presentation on Android
development on 24th March.
I’ll bring a couple of my own devices (must remember a USB cable as
well...). If I can have access to the demo machine about an hour before
the presentation, I can install the Android SDK on it—I normally put
that just in my own user directory. However, I’ve found I have trouble
accessing connected devices unless I launch the ADB server as root.
I can pull down various bits of sample code off GitHub and
developer.android.com. I’ve been able to do Java compilations with
OpenJDK as a replacement for Sun JDK.
I assume we can project the desktop machine display for everyone to
see, but I’m not so sure how we do that with an Android device. (My
devices may speak some version of MHL, if that helps.) Or we could run
sample apps on an emulator on the desktop machine?
6 years, 3 months
Saturday Linux workshop
by Bruce Kingsbury
I'll be running another Saturday Linux Workshop tomorrow;
February 22nd, 2014 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
*Te Whare O Te Ata*
60a Sare Cres
Hamilton, 3214
07 8557804
This is a GNU/Linux-focused workshop where people can bring their PCs,
Pi's, Android devices etc for trouble-shooting and to learn or try out new
skills.
All visitors welcome - light lunch provided - gold coin donation appreciated
6 years, 3 months
Ubuntu store apps won't work across mobile and desktop in 14.04
by Peter Reutemann
One of Canonical's main goals in bringing Ubuntu to mobile devices is
to create a converged platform across smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
As such, a developer should be able to write an app that has a single
code base yet runs on all three types of devices, presenting a
different interface to the user on each form factor.
...
Technically, this has already been achieved [with Unity 8].
...
The current goal is to get Unity 8 on the desktop in 14.10, "but we
are always assessing our roadmap and reviewing what is realistic,"
Bacon wrote.'
-- source: http://bit.ly/1jdrISm
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 3 months
Godot Game Engine Released Under MIT License
by Peter Reutemann
"Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It
focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can
deploy to PC, Mobile and Web platforms with no hassle. The editor,
language and APIs are feature rich, yet simple to learn. Godot was
born as an in-house engine, and was used to publish several
work-for-hire commercial titles. With more than half a million lines
of code, Godot is one of the most complex Open Source game engines at
the moment, and one of the largest commitments to open source software
in recent years. It allows developers to make games under Linux (and
other unix variants), Windows and OSX."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/02/10/2332205
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 3 months
Red Hat Hires CentOS Developers
by Peter Reutemann
"Karanbir Singh and a handful of other CentOS developers are now
full-time Red Hat employees, working in-house on the CentOS
distribution with more transparent processes and methods. None of the
CentOS developers will be working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The
CentOS project would become another distribution and community cared
for by Red Hat, like Fedora, and Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens says the
company is planning its future around OpenStack, not just Linux."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/02/11/157217
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 3 months
Growing the Linux Community
by Peter Reutemann
"An unfortunate truth of the Linux community is that sometimes the
most enthusiastic proponents of desktop Linux are the biggest
hindrance to adoption on a wider scale. Nothing illustrates this point
clearer than reading through the comments of posts that are either
suggesting change or are simply disparaging the concept. Two such
articles were recently published, David Gewirtz, writing for ZDNet
lists five reasons he would rather run Windows 8 than Linux at the end
of January, and Jack Wallen suggests talking about Linux in a language
we can all understand on TechRepublic, also a ZDNet site. Neither
article is that interesting in itself, but the comment stream of each
reveals much about the state of the community."
-- source: http://ostatic.com/blog/growing-the-linux-community
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 3 months
Kingsoft Office For GNU/Linux Looks As Good As MS Office, Performs Even Better!
by Danial Jose
Hi All,
I installed Kingsoft Office on my Ubuntu powered laptop and found it pretty
good. There are three applications in the suite as below -
- Kingsoft Writer – MS Word alternative
- Kingsoft Spreadsheet – MS Excel alternative
- Kingsoft Presentation – MS PowerPoint alternative
Kingsoft Office is very much compatible with new versions of MS Office. I
tried to open many .docx and .xlsx files in Kingsoft Office, and I can say
that compatibility is around 95% even for the complex documents. Best part
is that the user interface of Kingsoft Office is very similar to MS Office
including the Ribbon interface. In fact, you can think of Kingsoft Office
almost a clone of MS Office. This will reduce the learning curve for the
new users who have recently migrated from Windows to GNU/Linux. One more
useful feature is that multiple documents can be opened in Tabs so there is
no need of switching between multiple windows.
Don't believe me? Try out the Kingsoft Office yourself!
http://wps-community.org/download.html
"If you like our product, tell your friends, if you don't, please tell us!
> (^_^)"
http://wps-community.org/forum/
http://goo.gl/LwaMwe
http://goo.gl/dyisOc
http://goo.gl/hfMGHG
Cheers,
Danial José
6 years, 3 months
