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jorge's stompbox: Let's make it personal.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:18:35 -0500

jorge's stompbox: Let's make it personal.:

One thing Jono’s talked about in the past is how to make Ubuntu more personal. One of the things that suck about the internet is that we’re all behind monitors and keyboards, and it’s hard to remember that there’s a human being on the other end of the line.

Things like Google Hangouts are…

jorge's stompbox: OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:18:14 -0500

jorge's stompbox: OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday:

castrojo:

NOTE! We are starting a bit early today at 1300UTC, and also ~~today~~ tomorrow we have Rick Spencer’s Q+A. Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he’s got good working knowledge of Ubuntu as a whole, so bring your hard questions!

Here’s the logs from yesterday’s sessions:

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Make Games: The Technopriests

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:13:35 -0500

Make Games: The Technopriests:

My first encounter with the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky was when I read The Metabarons, a comic book series that describes a lineage of superhuman warriors, the titular Metabarons. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Argentinian artist Juan Giminez, who, to his credit, manages to…

The Full Spelunky on Spelunky

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:13:16 -0500

makegames:

At this year’s Game Developers Conference, I gave a 30-minute talk with my friend Andy Hull about Spelunky and how it went from being a freeware PC game to the XBLA project that we’re both working on right now. Overall, I think the talk went quite well (whew)! You can find footage of the talk somewhere on GDC Vault, but unfortunately, you have to be a registered member of something or another to view it, so I provided the slides here, with some extra commentary.

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taitems: This is Lauren’s new bike that we picked up Monday...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:06:29 -0500

taitems:

This is Lauren’s new bike that we picked up Monday night!

We really enjoyed riding the Barclay’s bikes in London and wish we could have ridden the bike share scheme in Paris. The bike lanes were so well separated from the road in Paris it just felt so right. Melbourne has a long way to go before our bike share scheme becomes as good as those available in Europe (ditch the helmet laws, build independent bike lanes throughout the CBD).

In the mean time we wanted to pick up some reconditioned vintage bikes so we rely less on our cars for short and medium journeys. Buying old bikes is a great way of keeping them off the scrap heap, and it means we can support local businesses that do the repairs and resales. Mark was a great help when we picked up the bike, and has offered to help me get a vintage men’s road bike going. There’s plenty of businesses out there restoring ladie’s bikes but virtually none restoring men’s.

taitems: Luke Beard wrote an insightful post on the front end...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:05:47 -0500

taitems:

Luke Beard wrote an insightful post on the front end development of Zerply. One of the little things that stuck out to me was the method of using native iPad and iPhone controls disguised as normal HTML elements. He uses a native