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Some WebAssembly Required | CR 248

chris — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:49:04 +0000

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3 Docker Tips for the Enterprise + BONUS!

How’s Mike’s Video adventure going so far?

Starting my day off in #Gimp. I feel my #Linux conversion is now complete lol. Also working on a new video for @BuccaneerTech 's YouTube

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) March 12, 2017

Canonical Launches New Ubuntu Tutorials Website

Canonical plan to make it easy for developers to contribute their own tutorials to the site (hopefully with some sort of vetting involved to maintain quality) and has made adding ‘functionality to write tutorials using markdown’ a near-term goal.

Ubuntu App Developer Portal Released, Wants To Help You Develop Apps For Ubuntu – OMG! Ubuntu!

Canonical’s David Planella has announced the release of the Ubuntu Developer Portal, which can be found over at developer.ubuntu.com.

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iPad Shrinkage | CR 243

chris — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 05:40:52 +0000

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Tricks of the Trade | CR 241

chris — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:22:57 +0000

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Imposter’s Handbook

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Coder Profiling | CR 226

chris — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:43:41 +0000

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Debate Night Live with Mike and Chris:

#Debate Night Round 2 Full Unfilter Live Commentary

Hoopla

Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky

If you want to attract and keep developers, don’t emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them private offices or let them work from home, because uninterrupted time to concentrate is the most important and scarcest commodity.

Coder Radio Hoodie and Tee

Why I hate iOS as a developer m

Dealing with iOS (and really Apple in general) is like trying to have a conversation with a paranoid robot working as a soviet border officer in a Kafka novel.

Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

Earlier today, Apple cancelled my developer account and has removed Dash from the App Store.

KDevelop for Windows: Official 5.0.1 beta installer available now | KDevelop

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of the first official KDevelop installer for Microsoft Windows. The installer is for the stable KDevelop 5.0.1 release, but we still release it as a beta, since there might be Windows-specific issues.

We primarily support C/C++ development, but also have great plugins for Python and PHP development (shipped in the Windows installer by default).

KDevelop itself is based on a plugin-based architecture where language support as such is just yet another plugin. There are other plugins (cppcheck, clang-tidy, etc.) not distributed on Windows (yet).

Congressional App Challenge 2016 – Connecting today’s Congress with tomorrow’s coders.

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Fat Bottom APIs | CR 206

chris — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:23:45 +0000

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We dig through the relevant bits of Google I/O, the possible anti-web move Instant Apps represent, no Kotlin & big improvements we’re excited about.

Plus Mike’s take on Android Studio 2.2 & Chris’ take on what we’re all calling “services”.

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Google IO

No Kotlin
Machine Learning is Upon Us!
Google’s Antiweb move: Instant Apps
xkcd: Installing
Android Studio 2.2 Improvements
- APK Analyser gives a better understanding of app size down to individual assets
- Layout Inspector allows easier visualization of UI layers during debug time
- Espresso Test Recorder
- Improved Jack Tools allows some Java 8 features
Android Apps on Chromebooks
JIT & Vulkan – performances advances or catch up with iOS

Book Recommendation

Zero Bugs and Program Faster by Kate Thompson

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Brave New Code | CR 198

chris — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:05:24 +0000

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Is Google dumping to compete with Nuance as they prepare to unleash their voice API to developers for free? Mike updates us on his Linux switch adventure, his new toy & a couple of important PSAs.

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Google opens access to its speech recognition API, going head to head with Nuance | TechCrunch

Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date.

Mike’s New Toy — Nexus 5X

PSA

XCode 7.3 breaks debugging on AppCode until the update
Code for America | Brigade

Linux Adventure Pt 2

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Android Instability | CR 183

chris — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:30:03 +0000

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The Pixel C is the perfect example of a compromised device, caused in large part, by Google’s Strategy Tax. This week we debate if this is the underlying reason tablet apps are so far behind on Android, what Mike’s plans are as an Android developer & why the long-term picture might look rosy.

Plus the Jar Jar true Sith Master mega theory comes to light, some iPad Pro follow up, the missed Mameo opportunity, the hard reality of the “pro tablet” market & more!

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Jar Jar: The True Sith Master

This subreddit is dedicated to the speculation – and ultimate revelation of – the true Sith Master, Supreme Leader Jar Jar Binks.

Theory Support Mega-Thread : DarthJarJar

In your face strategy tax, should it be a warning to developers?

A strategy tax is anything that makes a product less likely to succeed, yet is included to further larger corporate goals.

Mike tweets:

Any other #android devs concerned that Google will use #chromeOS for tablets rather than droid — seems like an uncertain time to dev 4 tabs?

Any other #android devs concerned that Google will use #chromeOS for tablets rather than droid — seems like an uncertain time to dev 4 tabs

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) December 13, 2015

The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android | Ars Technica

The Pixel C is ill-suited to Android, but it wasn’t supposed to be this way…

What about the lang? Will Java stay or could we Dart in a different direction?
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Ted Cruz to the rescue?

Super happy to see our Backpoints app at use at Rutgers! Go Knights! #apps pic.twitter.com/vYSbJ2VVaT

— Buccaneer Tech, INC (@BuccaneerTech) December 14, 2015

Andrew’s iPad Pro Follow up

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The Price Isn’t Right | CR 167

chris — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:10:16 +0000

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Developers are excited by Google’s announcement that Android will support Vulkan. We explain what Vulkan is, the issues developers face around openGL, & why Mike is a bit skeptical.

Plus market data suggest we’ve reached peak iPad & tablets are not selling. Is it worth creating anything but consumption based apps for tablets? We’ll debate.

Plus some audience submitted topics, Apple’s 30% cut, feedback & more!

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Google's adoption of #Vulkan for Android graphics should ensure that all Linux-based platforms standardize on Vulkan. Yay Google!

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 10, 2015

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Conditional Swift Justice | CR 164

chris — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:21:33 +0000

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Mike argues why the web is the default platform of the future, we debate if third party mobile platforms should be written off, first impressions of the Ionic Framework & Chris has a few surprises to announce.

Plus our advice on leaving .Net, our response to ignoring the Pebble & why a slightly functional world isn’t a bad thing.

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Arlington, WA to Grand Forks, ND

Android Security Vulnerability
Visual Studio 2015 Released

Ubuntu Phone review: years in the making, but still not consumer-ready

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Humanitarian Tech | WTR 31

chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:29:04 +0000

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Lisha is the Executive director of Geeks without bounds, an accelerator for humanitarian projects. She has found a great way to mix her desire to do humanitarian work along with technology!

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ANGELA: This is Women’s Tech Radio.
PAIGE: A show on the Jupiter Broadcasting Network interviewing interesting women in technology. Exploring their roles and how they are successful in technology careers. I’m Paige.
ANGELA: And I’m Angela.
PAIGE: So, Angela, today we interviewed Lisha Sterling. She is the executive director for Geeks Without Bounds. She has a pretty awesome story where she started out actually doing humanitarian aid work, ended up in programing, and then wound back up in humanitarian aid work with programing. It’s a fascinating story. Geeks Without Bounds is a great program, and I’m super excited to have her on the show.
ANGELA: Me too. But before we get into the show, I want to tell you about DigitalOcean. If you go to digitalocean.com and you use the promo code heywtr, you can save $10.00, which turns out is a two month rental of a server. Right? Because it’s only $5.00 a month. They have datacenter locations in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, AMsterdam, and London. And basically, they’re a cloud hosting provider. You can spin up a cloud server in 55 seconds. That include 512 megabytes of RAM, 20 gigabytes SSDS, i CPU, and i terabyte transfer. And they also pay authors $100 to $200.00 to technical tutorials. So, if you happen to already use DIgitalOcean or want to try it, and then like it so much that you want to write about it, you can get paid for that. After, of course, you save on two months of service.
PAIGE: Yeah, and their tutorials are bar none some of the best on the internet. I even end up there for things not for my DIgitalOcean VPS, which by the way, with those SSDs is disgustingly fast.
ANGELA: So, if you use heywtr, you support Women’s Tech Radio. ANd turns out, if you did not remember to enter a promo code when you started DigitalOcean, just go try to put in in there.
PAIGE: Yeah. I actually did that and it totally worked for mine.
ANGELA: After the fact.
PAIGE: Like a couple years ago when Coder Radio had it. That was sweet.
ANGELA: Yep, so you can still use it. So heywtr. Go to digitalocena.com
PAIGE: Yeah. And we got started with our interview with Lisha by asking her to explain her current position and what she’s up to in technology.
LISHA: I’m the Executive Director at Geeks Without Bounds and we support humanitarian open source projects through a combination of hackathons and an accelerator program. So, my work these days sort of entangles both my early career in international aid work and charity work and my academic side. I studied Latin American studies in college. And the rest of my professional life, which has been software development and systems engineering. And now I get to use technology to do disaster response and humanitarian aid and international development work.
PAIGE: Wow. That’s a pretty awesome way to use technology.
ANGELA: Yeah it is.
PAIGE: So that sounds like a pretty big jump from, you know, international aid work into software development. Can you tell me the story of like how that came to be for you?
LISHA: Yeah. So, first off, being, you know, a privileged white kid, i had my first computer when I was eight years old. Actually, my dad got me two Timex Sinclair 1000s. One for his house and one for my moms’ house. And connected it up to the black and white TV and put rubber bands around it so that the extra 16K of memory wouldn’t disconnect while we programmed. And thus I began my journey as a new programer learning basic and then going there’s a thing called Assembly Language. And I got involved with a computer club and was your basic tomboy geek girl. Then I had my first kid when I was 17 and went off to El Salvador. Did aid work during the war and during the first year of the peace. Came back to the US, did a bunch of work with refugees. Had another kid. Decided that I should probably go to college. And since I’d been working with Central American and in Central America, it was obvious what I was going to study. I was going to study Latin American studies and go do more of the same sort of stuff. But being a mom with two small kids, I, and no real skills or degree, I was able to make $4.25 an hour and my childcare cost like $7.50 an hour. The math doesn’t add up.
ANGELA: No. Now that I have three, daycare just isn’t even an option.
LISHA: Yeah. So one of my friends from my young computing days, a young man that I dated when I was like 11 and 12, and our first date was actually to a tech conference at the Moscone Center.
ANGELA: That’s adorable.
LISHA: So, you know, we’re still friends as adults. And he said to me, why don’t you get a job as a programer? And I was like, you’re crazy. I don’t have a degree in CS. I can’t program. He’s like, don’t be stupid. Nobody cares about your CS degree. Just tell them you can program. Show them some code and they’ll let you do it. But his caveat came. You must charge $25 an hour. I was like, I can’t charge $25 an hour. He’s like, no if you do not charge $25 an hour I will never speak to you again.
ANGELA: Oh my goodness.
PAIGE: So I’m going to pause you there, because this is a really interesting question that I always dig around. Why could you not charge $25 an hour?
LISHA: Well, because I was getting $4.25 an hour. The idea-
ANGELA: Perceived value. Perceived value.
LISHA: Right. The idea that I was going to go to somebody and have balls enough to say, yeah I’m a programer. I don’t have any degrees or any proof that i can actually do this, but you should totally pay me $25 an hour for it.
ANGELA: Inferiority complex. Yep. I’m familiar with all of that.
LISHA: Yeah. Yeah. So, but, you know my friendship was on the line and my need to take care of my children was on the line. So I did it and just about keeled over the first time somebody said, yes we will hire you.
ANGELA: Wow.
PAIGE: What did it take to get your foot in the door? Was it really just like you friend said? You just showed up and were like, look I can program. Let’s go.
LISHA: Actually, yeah. It literally was that easy. So I went for low hanging fruit right at the start, since I was at community college at the time. And so at the time I was working as an administrative assistant for Sybase. This probably puts the timing into, into perspective.
PAIGE: Your choice of computerm, your choice of computer at the top made that pretty clear.
LISHA: Right. Right. Right. Yeah, so I was working for Sybase as an administrative assistant and had gotten the opportunity to play with web stuff there on the side. The first browsers were out, but nobody was really using them. So even at Sybase they were like, this is stupid. Why are you wasting your time with this? But of course I was going to college so I went to all of my professors and I said have you seen this thing called the web? You should check this out. You can put your research up and you can put your classwork stuff up.
PAIGE: Which is exactly what the web was originally built for, was to share research.
LISHA: Right. Exactly. And they said, oh wow that’s neat. And yeah could you do that for me. So that was how i got my foot in the door. ANd then, you know, I got a little bit braver and I went to the administrators of the Parelta College District. So I went to the administrators at the Parelta COllege District and said, you know, you guys should really have a better website. And they said, you know what, you’re right. And so I got to do some contracting for them. And then I found out about dice.com and atually the saem friend that told me that I had to charge $25 or neer speak to me again told me about Dice. And at the time, almost nobody knew about it and you had to get your Dice listings off of Gopher. And he told me, don’t tell anyone about this, because when everyone knows about it then it’s going to start getting harder to get jobs. So you’re not allowed to tell anybody about it. So, you know, there I was in the early ‘90s using Dice by Gopher. But I found some jobs and then recruiters started contacting me and I found that I could actually work from home, which by that time was actually the UC Berkeley family housing. I was able to basically pay for my own schooling with scholarships, pay for my kids’ daycare and private school with programming. And everybody kept saying why aren’t you studying computer science, and I would say I’m already working in computer science, why would I get a degree in it? But then eventually I finished my bachelor’s degree and I intended to on with grad school, but I had that moment where it’s like I need some time without poverty and working just enough hours to keep us afloat is, we’ve done that for a while. I need to spend some time working full time. And then work ended up eating my life for oh, 20 years.
PAIGE: So at that point you got a full time job in computer science somewhere?
LISHA: Yeah. At that time I ended up getting full time work. I worked, while in the mid-90s I worked at Wells Fargo Bank doing problem and change tracking during the Y2K reprograming stuff. Anybody who says that the Y2K thing was nothing, was not there to program all the fixes.
PAIGE: Yeah. It only wasn’t a thing because you guys were doing it.
ANGELA: Yeah.
LISHA: Right. Exactly. It wasn’t a thing because there were a lot of people working really hard to make sure it was not a thing. So I was there. I worked, i did random contracts for media companies and whatnot in the San Francisco Bay area. Amazon, I worked at Amazon in the UK. That kind of thing.
PAIGE: And then eventually stumbled back into Geeks Without Bounds?
LISHA: Yeah. So my first sort of hit between the eyes was 2001 and after 911 I said I’m not working on any more Microsoft or any more closed sourced from here on out. I’m only going to do open source, because I’ve already sold my soul and I’m not doing humanitarian work, at least I’m going to do code work that I care about. So from 2001 onward I was working almost exclusively on open source software. And then even that kind of hit me at some point. I’m like, I went to college so that I could do humanitarian work. Why am I still writing code? And so I decided to just quit everything and figure out what I was going to do with my life, when I grow up. And I declared myself an un-graduate student. If you’re familiar with the idea of unschooling, which is like homeschooling without a curriculum.
ANGELA: Yep.
LISHA: There’s also such a thing as un-college. And I don’t know, there might be somebody else in the world who came up the with idea at about the same time I did, or even before I did, but I came up with this sort of independently. Where I had been thinking about going back to grad school and then said why would I get myself into more debt? I’m going to un-grad school. So that’s what I did. And that ended up getting me into an organization called The School Factory, which is the fiscal sponsor for Geeks Without Bounds. And then that, of course, led me into Geeks Without Bounds. I started out as a volunteer. Then i was the developer coordinator. And then last year I became the executive director.
PAIGE: Congratulations.
ANGELA: Yeah.
LISHA: Thank you.
PAIGE: That’s a really awesome journey. It’s all over the map, but it’s very personal . And I love that about tech. It’s not a straight and narrow path.
LISHA: Yeah. Yeah. And there’s lots of ways you can come to tech and there’s lots of things you can do with the tech once you’re in it or playing with it. It’s not just one tool. It’s like all these different tools. It’s kind of like saying, what can you do with wood? Well, you can do all sorts of things with wood.
PAIGE: Right. What do you want to do with wood?
LISHA: RIght.
PAIGE: Yeah. So, I think a lot of people would hear you story and stay, well you kind of had perfect timing. You’re like in the Bill Gates timing era, where if you just caught on to the right thing at the right time you were good to go. How would you respond to somebody saying that in today’s climate? Oh, I couldn’t just show up and say I know how to code, pay me $25 an hour, let’s go, kind of a thing. Because I would argue that in some ways we’re kind of seeing that again, but what’s your thoughts?
LISHA: I think we’re absolutely seeing that again. I think that right now is a really good time to ride the wave of open source into your dream job. ANd so, a little shameless promotion here. At Geeks Without Bounds, one of the programs that we have is an internship program and we take novice developers who have, who have learned some programming skills but have either never gotten any job experience or they don’t know how to use GitHub and work in a team, or go through issue tracking and figure out how to pick a project out of the issues, you know, that kind of thing. We give them mentorship. We have them work on some of the humanitarian projects in our ecosystem and we try to shove them at as many other opportunities to get a real job as possible. Sometimes we also manage to get a grant here or there to get them a stipend, but most of them are sort of slave labor in exchange for lots of mentorship. And they’re code up on GitHub so that they can show it to other people. And we have had some really great success with people coming into that program. Doing some amazing work on one project or another over the course of three months, five months, six months, and then going on to get a real job in programming. We had one guy who had studied aeronautical engineering. Got all the way through his degree and realized that that was not what he wanted to do with his life and what he really wanted to do was be a programer.
PAIGE: That’s a big investment to make that shift.
LISHA: Exactly. And I snagged him and I was like, let me put you to work. And it was fantastic. He got projects that he really enjoyed working on. He learned a whole bunch of stuff very fast. He managed to get a stipend and then he got a paid internship and then, you know, he’s working full time as a developer in Chicago and, you know, you can totally do that. And you don’t have to have to have a bachelor’s degree to begin with either. Anybody really can do that.
PAIGE: So do you take a lot of people who have maybe done either a lot of self-taught stuff on the internet now or boot camp graduates? How do you people kind of end up ready to go into Geeks Without Bounds internships?
LISHA: All of the above. I’ve had people who were in their junior or senior year of college decide to spend the summer working on projects with us. I’ve had people that were totally and completely self-taught. And there’ve been people who’ve done some sort of boot camp like experience. So they knew a bit more about how to work in teams and things like that, but they just wanted to get some more work experience while they were looking for a job. They already knew how to look for a job, they just wanted to keep their, the code lines on GitHub up while they were looking for that job. So, yes.
PAIGE: And that’s, I mean that’s one of the biggest recommendations I give to anybody who’s going through boot camp is keep committing. Just keep getting it up there.
LISHA: Absolutely.
PAIGE: So that’s kind of the intern side of it. How about in the nonprofit side. How does a nonprofit get involved with you? Are they just finding you online? Are you doing events or something to kind of bring them in? What does that look like?
LISHA: We end up meeting people in all sorts of situations. Sometimes as conferences or at say disaster response drills. Sometime we’ll meet people there. Sometimes it’s literally look for who’s in the area that needs support right now. And sometimes people come to us. And then, basically we just kind of have lots of conversations and develop relationship over time and let people know that if they have challenges that they think that technology could help them with, that we are happy to help them craft that into a challenge that somebody can actually address. And when we’re crafting or curating challenges for hackathons, we try to create a challenge that can actually be addressed in a weekend. So there might be back story and a problem that clearly this is not going to be solved in a weekend, but here’s the backstory and here’s the piece we want to accomplish this weekend.
PAIGE: So you guys kind of handle the project managy end of that prepping it to go into the hackathon?
LISHA: Right. Exactly. And then, so once you get a starting point basically, if you’ve got, say an app that sort of is attempting to deal with the big pictures, um, then you can break that down into lots of different challenges and you can take that from one humanitarian hackathon to next to the next. And the great thing about that is that you start with a couple of people who got interested in the project at the first hackathon and maybe on those, maybe two people will stay on board and keep working on the project over time.
PAIGE: Which is one of the biggest challenges with hackathons is actually getting people to commit, almost.
LISHA: Exactly. So you take the project to the next hackathon. And let’s say four or five people work on it and one of those people decides they want to keep working on the project long term. So now you’ve just snowballed your team. You’ve got two people or three people instead of just the people from the original hackathon. And then you take it to the next one and it gets stickier. And the more work has been done and the larger the core team is, the stickier the ball gets as it goes from one hackathon to the next.
PAIGE: It builds momentum.
LISHA: Yeah. It builds momentum and you get to a certain point where you can actually have a whole hackathon where all the challenges that are being presented are all based around that one piece of software. So, for instance, one of the projects that started at a hackathon, Taarifa, that project has had multiple hackathons that are just about Taarifa. Where all of the challenges are all, either bug fixes or feature request for Taarifa that have ranged from improved the documentation to create a Swahili translation for all of the text, to fix the security bugs, to create new features. And that team is one of, one of the most amazing teams that we’re working with right now, actually. I’m pretty impressed with where that project has ended up. It’s being used by the World’s Bank in many countries in Africa. We at Geeks Without Bounds are part of a consortium that is being supported by HDAF, UK aid to put Taarifa into the water system in Tanzania in order to allow citizens to report to the government when water pumps and spigots and other water points are broken. And allows the government to keep track of what is working and what is broken in the water infrastructure everywhere in the country.
PAIGE: Crowdsourcing water maintenance. That’s awesome.
ANGELA: That is awesome.
LISHA: Exactly. Exactly. And Taarifa was originally developed for water management, actually. But now it’s being used for tracking education systems, healthcare systems, and this summer I’m going down to Ecuador to work with people from the Kofan community in Northern Ecuador in order to use Taarifa to track pollution and encroachment in the Amazon Jungle. So pretty awesome little piece of software there.
PAIGE: Yeah. So you have a formal commitment in your life to only work on open source software. Is that something that’s carried forward that Geeks Without Bounds is also doing when they’re doing these projects with nonprofits?
LISHA: Yes.
PAIGE: Are you largely open source, mostly? What’s the deal?
LISHA: It’s all open source. We specifically work on open source humanitarian projects. So open source projects that for whatever reason we can’t find a way to call it humanitarian, we don’t work on those. We’ve managed to find ways to call lots of ways humanitarian though. Today we were working in PGP email app for Firefox OS phones.
PAIGE: Wow.
LISHA: And I consider that to be a humanitarian issue because Firefox OS phones are marketed to low income people in developed countries. And to people in the least developed countries on the planet. So, in other words, Firefox OS phones are being marketed to vulnerable people. And as a system it doesn’t have the security and privacy pulls that an iPhone or an Android phone has. And at the moment there’s no guardian project for Firefox OS. So we’re trying to kick one off, basically.
PAIGE: Yeah. So I’m going to jump in just for anybody listening who doesn’t know, PGP is an email encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy. It’s kind of the de facto standard right now for email encryption. Usable by anybody. If you’re interested in having encrypted email, there’s tons of stuff online. And one of our former guests, uh Snubs, has some awesome tutorials on Hak5 about how to do that if you want to check it out. But yeah, so privacy and security.
LISHA: And for newbies to PGP who use hotmail or yahoo mail or Gmail, I would recommend looking up a program called Mailvelope. It’s a Firefox and Chrome plugin. So you just plug it into your browser and then it recognizes that you’re on a webmail site and it will allow you to encrypt your email in webmail. Which is pretty cool.
PAIGE: Yeah. That’s pretty awesome. I mean this project you’re involved with, I’m not going to lie, it touches my heart in a very special way. I think that technology can change the world if we let it. And I think getting more people involved at that level is just phenomenal. The way that you’re doing it is great. If people want to find you how do they do that? To find Geeks WIthout Bounds, to get involved either as a nonprofit or as a coder, whatever?
LISHA: Whatever, yeah. So we’re online at gwob.org.
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Google’s Tech Tease | Tech Talk Today 176

chris — Wed, 27 May 2015 10:37:35 +0000

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There is some major smoke around the Google I/O fire, we dig into an in depth discussion about the big Google Picture. Plus Vox buys up Re/Code in a move that consolidates tech news & OnePlus teases us with a new device!

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Vox Media Adds ReCode to Its Stable of Websites – NYTimes.com

Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both – Quartz

One reason for the renewed discussions may be Comcast’s role in encouraging Vox Media’s acquisition of Recode, the technology news site with a small audience but growing events business. Sources say Comcast, which owns minority stakes in both companies, gave its blessing to the deal several months ago. David Zilberman, a managing director of Comcast Ventures, its venture capital arm, sits on Vox Media’s board. He didn’t reply to a message seeking comment.

APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000

The thieves accessed a system called “Get Transcript,” where taxpayers can get tax returns and other filings from previous years. In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address, the IRS said.

Microsoft partners with LG, Sony, other OEMs to sell Android tablets featuring Office, OneDrive, Skype

In total, Microsoft has now partnered with 31 global and local OEMs (11 in March and 20 today) to preinstall its apps onto Android devices throughout this year. Only time will tell if Microsoft’s apps end up actually being used more because of these deals.

OnePlus teases next smartphone announcement on Twitter

OnePlus says it is “Time to change” in its latest tweet, teasing a possible smartphone announcement for June 1. Chinese smartphone maker, OnePlus, relies heavily on Twitter for making announcements and promoting products and now the company would like to shake things up according to its latest tweet.

Update on Extension Signing and New Developer Agreement

Next week, we will activate two new features on AMO: signing of new add-on versions after they are reviewed, and add-on submission for developers who wish to have their add-ons signed but don’t want them listed on AMO. We will post another update once this happens. When this is done, all extension developers will be able to have their extensions signed, with enough time to update their users before signing becomes a requirement in release versions of Firefox.

Google I/O 2015 Preview: We’re doubling down on Android M, Chrome, Wear and more

Obviously Android M(arshmallow?), Wear updates including the next Moto 360 are at the top of the list. I’ve been hearing whispers that the new 360 is smaller, uses more modern/efficient SoC and a better OLED display. I’m praying to the robot dog overlords at Google that they have these as developer demo units (read: presents) at I/O. Use on iOS as has been found in code would also be nice for us who use both platforms. I’ve heard Samsung might have something round for us to feast on soon, and who knows, maybe we’ll see a $1,400 Tag Heuer Watch somehow with Intel Inside.

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Straight Outta FOSDEM | LINUX Unplugged 78

chris — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:37:45 +0000

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FOSDEM just wrapped up, where thousands of developers & enthusiasts of free & open source software gather to talk all things Linux.

Plus we drool over the new Raspberry Pi 2 & ask if B+ buyers got a little screwed.

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FOSDEM 2015

Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

What’s New in systemd, 2015 Edition

systemd is now a core component of most major distributions. In this talk I want to give an overview over everything new in the systemd project over the last year, and what to expect over the next year.

How does systemd relate to Plasma? | David Edmundson’s Web Log

Hopefully it clears up what we mean when we talk about systemd and desktop environments, and where we could use different parts of systemd.

It should be apparent that as developers there are parts we want to embrace as it. In many cases it allows us to throw away large amounts of code whilst at the same time providing a better user experience. Adding it as an optional extra defeats the main benefit.

Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35 | Raspberry Pi

Let’s get the good stuff out of the way above the fold. Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Model B+), featuring:

A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1

Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.

Turbocharged quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed, global geekgasm likely • The Register

Speaking to The Register last week, foundation head honcho Eben Upton said: “I think it’s a usable PC now. It was always the case that you could use a Raspberry Pi 1 as a PC but you had to say ‘this is a great PC in so far as it cost me 35 bucks’. We’ve removed the caveat that you had to be a bit forgiving with it. Now it’s just good.”

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Priyanka Sharma | WTR 11

chris — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:21:00 +0000

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Priyanka is a cofounder of Wakatime, a fully automatic time tracking service for programmers!

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Trisquel Founder Interview | LAS 349

chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:43:14 +0000

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The main developer and founder of Trisquel GNU/Linux Ruben Rodriguez joins us to discuss the projects mission, the major headwinds it faces, what the future holds, and their new focus on privacy.

Plus: Mark Shuttleworth sees a future where Ubuntu powers Robots and Drones, a mini-review of KDE Plasma 5.2 desktop, what’s coming up in Gnome…

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Main Developer and Founder Ruben Rodriguez aka quidam

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GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is
the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an
ethical one: it is entirely free software.
While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free
software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as
plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license restricts distribution
in several ways incompatible with freedom 0.

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The Mouse Box, Runs Linux

At the beginning moving computers was a real challenge. The problem was not just their quite big weight, but also their size which made it difficult to put them in a right place even though it was possible to lift them. Computer portability has been improving along with developing a PC. However, it still isn’t ideal as it is necessary to transport a lot of its parts – a monitor, a keyboard, a CPU and a mouse. The approach to computer design and appearance has been the same until today. We are introducing Mouse-Box, a computer different than ever before. An incredible combination of the two most important elements in a computer set – a computer and a mouse.

Desktop App Pick

swatd · GitHub

SWATd is a daemon for running scripts when your house gets raided by the police
(or broken into by criminals). For example, if you use any kind of encryption,
you can use SWATd to destroy the keys, instead of hoping the police (or
criminals) are stupid enough to unplug your computer. SWATd can also be used
for more mundane things like sending an email notification when a server goes
down.

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Dex UI | NNKD

DEX UI is a combination of my love for futuristic interfaces and desktop customization. It’s a handcrafted interface programmed in openFrameworks, running fullscreen underneath a functioning terminal, as essentially an animated desktop.

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Shuttleworth: Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86 [LWN.net]

Mark Shuttleworth takes a look at
Ubuntu and the Internet of Things. “Ubuntu is right at the heart of
the “internet thing” revolution, and so we are in a good position to raise
the bar for security and consistency across the whole ecosystem. Ubuntu is
already pervasive on devices — you’ve probably seen lots of “Ubuntu in the
wild” stories, from self-driving cars to space programs and robots and the
occasional airport display. I’m excited that we can help underpin the next
wave of innovation while also thoughtful about the responsibility that
entails. So today we’re launching snappy Ubuntu Core on a wide range of
boards, chips and chipsets, because the snappy system and Ubuntu Core are perfect for distributed, connected devices that need security updates for the OS and applications but also need to be completely reliable and self-healing. Snappy is much better than package dependencies for robust, distributed devices.”

pfSense 2.2-RELEASE Now Available!

I’m happy to announce the release of pfSense(r) software version 2.2! This release brings improvements in performance and hardware support from the FreeBSD 10.1 base, as well as enhancements we’ve added such as AES-GCM with AES-NI acceleration, among a number of other new features and bug fixes. Jim Thompson

Plasma 5.2 Beta out for Testing

Today KDE releases a beta for Plasma 5.2. This release adds a number of new components and improves the existing desktop. We welcome all testers to find and help fix the bugs before our stable release in two weeks’ time.

Kubuntu 15.04 Alpha 2 Is the Most Exciting Release in a Long Time – Screenshot Tour – Softpedia

The second batch of testing images for Kubuntu 15.04 is out and it looks like the developers are definitely on the right track. This is the first Kubuntu edition that integrates the new Plasma 5 desktop and the rest of the components from the former KDE SC. This latest edition of Kubuntu is quite exciting and none of the flavors for the Vivid launch has such a big change in the desktop paradigm.

GNOME Shell Adds VP9 Screencasting, Mutter Improves Wayland

Mutter 3.15.4 was checked in this morning by Florian Müllner and it has Wayland improvements and other exciting changes with GTK+ now drawing all window decorations, a change to replicate the monitor EDID parsing for Mutter on Wayland so it acts the same way as under X11, Mutter now handles input device configuration, and there’s support for pointer barriers with Mutter on Wayland. The pointer barriers on Wayland will ensure that the pointer never enters “dead areas” of the screen due to different monitor sizes, etc.

Librem 15, the first free software GNU/Linux laptop, makes funding goal

Crowd Supply, a curated crowd-funding and e-commerce company has been working on funding the first pure free-software laptop, the Purism Librem 15. The Kickstarter-like project had been seeking $250,000 to create the “first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications.” On January 21st, the company achieved its goal. As of January 22nd, the project has raised just over $260,000.

Purism, the company behind the Librem 15, promises that it will ship an Intel CPU fused to run unsigned BIOS code. The hope is that this will allow a future where free software can replace the proprietary, digitally signed, BIOS binaries.

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Macs Exodus | CR 135

chris — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:04:42 +0000

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Is the quality of Apple’s desktop and mobile software causing a slow bleeding of developers? Chris & Mike debate what developers will do over 2015.

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Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS riddled with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can’t talk anymore.

CNBC video is up: https://t.co/BG03O6LfWk (thanks @_DavidSmith) Not as bad as I feared. The web rewrites are mostly worse.

— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) January 5, 2015

Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push

Spartan is still going to use Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft’s Trident rendering engine (not WebKit), sources say. As Neowin’s Brad Sams reported back in September, the coming browser will look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox and will support extensions.

Sams also reported on December 29 that Microsoft has two different versions of Trident in the works, which also seemingly supports the claim that the company has two different Trident-based browsers.

However, if my sources are right, Spartan is not IE 12. Instead, Spartan is a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building.

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Fedora Developer Roundtable | LAS 343

chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:35:21 +0000

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We talk with five developers from the Fedora project behind some of the recent amazing work that has seen a major milestone release in Fedora 21, treating Fedora more as a product & laying the groundwork for amazing future technologies.

Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical joins us to explain what Ubuntu Snappy Core is & some of it’s killer new features, our picks, news…

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DevAssistant can help you set up your development environment, publish your
code, and do many of the chores that somehow keep you from the important
stuff – writing your software. It does not matter if you only recently
discovered the world of software development, or if you have been coding for
two decades, there’s always something DevAssistant can do to make your life
easier.

This is Free Software. Free as in speech. It is released under the
terms of the GPL version 2 or later. That means that you can
do great many things with it freely, but you have to follow some rules too.

libinput

libinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland compositors and to provide a generic X.Org input driver. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code compositors need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.

PowerTOP | 01.org

PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management.

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Running Debian on a Graphing Calculator

Thx to: Mikerr89 and sorry to bluphenix316!

The newer TI-Nspire series of graphing calculators uses modern ARM devices. [Codinghobbit] managed to get Debian Linux running on a TI-Nspire calculator, and has written a guide explaining how it’s done.

The process uses Ndless, a jailbreak which allows code to run at a low level on the device. Ndless also includes a full SDK, emulator, and debugger for developing apps. In this case, Ndless is used to load the Linux kernel.

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Desktop App Pick

dcfldd

dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security.
Based on the dd program found in the GNU Coreutils
package, dcfldd has the following additional features:

Hashing on-the-fly – dcfldd can hash the input data as it is being transferred,
helping to ensure data integrity.
Status output – dcfldd can update the user of its progress in terms of the
amount of data transferred and how much longer operation will take.
Flexible disk wipes – dcfldd can be used to wipe disks quickly and with a known
pattern if desired.
Image/wipe Verify – dcfldd can verify that a target drive is a bit-for-bit match of the specified input file or pattern.
Multiple outputs – dcfldd can output to multiple files or disks at the same time.
Split output – dcfldd can split output to multiple files with more configurability than the split command.
Piped output and logs – dcfldd can send all its log data and output to commands as well as files natively.

openSUSE/imagewriter · GitHub

Utility for writing raw disk images & hybrid isos to USB keys

Create a Live USB stick using Window

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Weekly Spotlight

Free OpenSource Dyslexia Font – OpenDyslexic

OpenDyslexic is a new open source font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The typeface includes regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users. There are no restrictions on using OpenDyslexic outside of attribution.

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Announcing Snappy Ubuntu

Guest: Dustin Kirkland (@dustinkirkland)

A new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for the cloud.

Ubuntu Core is a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security guarantees for apps and users — that’s why we call them “snappy” applications.

Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core itself can be upgraded atomically and rolled back if needed — a bulletproof approach to systems management that is perfect for container deployments. It’s called “transactional” or “image-based” systems management, and we’re delighted to make it available on every Ubuntu certified cloud.

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

What if your cloud instances could be updated with the same certainty and precision as your mobile phone — with carrier grade assurance that an update applies perfectly or is not applied at all? What if your apps could be isolated from one another completely, so there’s no possibility that installing one app could break another, and stronger assurance that a compromise of one app won’t compromise the data from another? When we set out to build the Ubuntu Phone we took on the challenge of raising the bar for reliability and security in the mobile market. And today that same technology is coming to the cloud, in the form of a new “snappy” image called Ubuntu Core, which is in beta today on Azure and as a KVM image you can run on any Linux machine.

Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefox

If you’re visiting any Yahoo property today, chances are you’ll see an “Upgrade to the new Firefox” link in the top-right corner of your browser window. The prompt also appears if you’re using Internet Explorer, Opera and even the new Yandex browser. However, the prompt is missing from Safari, which will surely prompt a new round of speculation about Apple’s rumored switch to Yahoo as its default search engine.

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Debian Community Divided | LINUX Unplugged 67

chris — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:29:48 +0000

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We recap the recent mini-exodus in the Debian project & discuss how the tone of discussion around systemd has had some terrible consequences. We follow that with some concrete ideas of what we can do to change that tone.

Plus we take a stroll down fantasy lane and wave our magic wands and solve our top three Linux pain points, some great follow up & much more.

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Debian sees a mini-exodus around systemd discussions

This morning, I resigned as a member of the systemd maintainer team.
I then proceeded to leave the relevant IRC channels and announced this
on twitter. The responses I’ve gotten have been almost all been
heartwarming. People have generally been offering hugs, saying thanks
for the work put into systemd in Debian and so on. I’ve greatly
appreciated those (and I’ve been getting those before I resigned too,
so this isn’t just a response to that). I feel bad about leaving the
rest of the team, they’re a great bunch: competent, caring, funny,
wonderful people. On the other hand, at some point I had to draw a
line and say “no further”.

Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team

I hereby resign from the systemd maintainer team in Debian. Please
remove me from Uploaders on the next upload. You’ve been an awesome
team to work with, but the load of the continued attacks is just
becoming too much.

Bruce Perens (former Debian project leader) comments on systemd
Chris’ comments on live stream of LAS about .net
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What are the draw backs of Linux?

Hey there,

I’ve been considering more and more moving over to linux. Now, I use my computer a lot to work and unfortunately the business world is ridden with Windows. I’m currently on a Mac and the good thing with that has been that there’s Office for OS X. I don’t like office but it just makes life so much easier to run it as everyone else does and I’ve had my fare share of issues trying to send documents not created natively in office where layouts differ etc.
But more importantly besides the small thing that is MS office, what other drawbacks should I take into consideration.
I’m fully aware that Linux is awesome software, but I’m asking the question from the perspective of someone using ones computer mainly to work and casual surfing. Casual stuff I know won’t be a problem, just worried about the draw backs in a work environment.

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Behind the Schemes | CR 125

chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:21:32 +0000

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Mike and Chris go meta & discuss their thoughts about the state of Coder Radio, some ideas to mix it up & request your input.

Then we dig into a revealing support chat between an Android developer & the manager for Google Play Developer Support that finally gives us some real insight into the public address debacle.

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More lawsuits over “no poach” deals get filed against Oracle, Microsoft

Mono for Unreal Engine – Miguel de Icaza

Earlier this year, both Epic Games and CryTech made their Unreal Engine
and CryEngine available under an affordable subscription model. These are
both very sophisticated game engines that power some high end and popular games.

We had previously helped Unity bring Mono as the scripting language used in their engine and we now had a chance to do this over again.

Today I am happy to introduce Mono for Unreal Engine.

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The Daemon’s Apprentice | BSD Now 57

chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:54:25 +0000

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We’re back from EuroBSDCon! This week we’ll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you’ve ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it’s actually really easy to get involved. We’ve also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference

NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find
At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display
As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference

FreeBSD’s Linux emulation ports rehaul

For a long time, FreeBSD’s emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system
If you’ve ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you’ll be stuck with all this extra junk
With some recent work, that’s been replaced with a recent CentOS release
This opens up the door for newer versions of Skype to run on FreeBSD, and maybe even Steam someday

pfSense 2.2-BETA

Big changes are coming in pfSense land, with their upcoming 2.2 release
We talked to the developer a while back about future plans, and now they’re finally out there
The 2.2 branch will be based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE (instead of 8.3) and include lots of performance fixes
It also includes some security updates, lots of package changes and updates and much more
You can check the full list of changes on their wiki

NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi

This article shows how you can install NetBSD on the ever-so-popular Raspberry Pi
As of right now, you’ll need to use a -CURRENT snapshot to do it
It also shows how to grow the filesystem to fill up an SD card, some pkgsrc basics and how to get some initial things set up
Can anyone find something that you can’t install NetBSD on?

Interview – Steve Wills – swills@freebsd.org / @swills

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News Roundup

MidnightBSD 0.5 released

We don’t hear a whole lot about MidnightBSD, but they’ve just released version 0.5
It’s got a round of the latest FreeBSD security patches, driver updates and various small things
Maybe one of their developers could come on the show sometime and tell us more about the project

BSD Router Project 1.52 released

The newest update for the BSD Router Project is out
This version is based on a snapshot of 10-STABLE that’s very close to 10.1-RELEASE
It’s mostly a bugfix release, but includes some small changes and package updates

Configuring a DragonFly BSD desktop

We’ve done tutorials on how to set up a FreeBSD or OpenBSD desktop, but maybe you’re more interested in DragonFly
In this post from Justin Sherrill, you’ll learn some of the steps to do just that
He pulled out an old desktop machine, gave it a try and seems to be pleased with the results
It includes a few Xorg tips, and there are some comments about the possibility of making a GUI DragonFly installer

Building a mini-ITX pfSense box

Another week, another pfSense firewall build post
This time, the author is installing to a Jetway J7F2, a mini-ITX device with four LAN ports
He used to be a m0n0wall guy, but wanted to give the more modern pfSense a try
Lots of great pictures of the hardware, which we always love

Feedback/Questions

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Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
Slides from most of the EuroBSDCon talks are up, hopefully we’ll have the links to all the videos soon
We got lots of great interviews, so look forward to those in the coming months
The Book of PF’s third edition is now available to buy digitally, and physical copies will be available later this month
OpenBSD 5.6 preorders are up on their new store, openbsdstore.com – there’s also some other cool things there
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Xamarin Sham | CR 120

chris — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:33:35 +0000

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Developers all over the web are chiming in on the short comings (or lack there of) of Xamarin’s tools. Have developers been sold a hope and a lie?

Plus why Android continues to come in second for developers, your feedback & more!

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Dev Hoopla: Massive Issues with Xamarin?

Anonymous Open Letter to Xamarin – Please Stop Abusing Your Monopoly

Anonymous Open Letter to Xamarin – Please Stop Abusing Your Monopoly

I’ve been using Xamarin for the past half a year almost fulltime, developing an application for both iOS and Android. Everything in this letter is based on my personal experience with the technology.

I’d really like to know what the priority list is at Xamarin, because it seems that Cool Thing To Demo is way up high, and Working software is hiding down in the corner where nobody sees it. I just hope that someone at Xamarin is actually reading the error reports that Xamarin Studio generates.

Does anyone there actually use Xamarin Studio, or is it just something you guys sell and never try yourself? Throwing exceptions on Undo/Save is something no editor should ever do, period. Please stop adding new features and go fix some bugs. There are hundreds of them just in the UI of the editor.

Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them

TL;DR: I love C# more than any other language, but Xamarin is HORRIBLE. I wish it and mono were never invented. It’s a disgrace, completely broken and buggy and just the most broken thing in the entire universe, but I still use it.

Why? Because I can write for 2 platforms as if it was one. haha, not really … but because I work on small apps, I don’t have to write all the business crap twice. That is good about Xamarin, that is the only thing. They can actually compile plain C# … hooray. If only the rest of the crap expensive broken Xamarin crap library actually worked as advertised.

If you don’t believe me, go to https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/ and look at the bugs, or look at mono release notes. Just look at the list of shiny features of Mono (https://www.mono-project.com/docs/). Well half of that crap is either broken, or was never implemented, or just doesn’t work as documented. Everything is just a lie that should make it look good. Xamarin does thousand things, they release new iOS SDK the same day Apple releases it … wow … if only they waited a year and then released a working version instead. They make thousand cool features, but they’re all broken.

Bug 21995 – Memory leak when navigating a page off of a navigation stack

Dev Hoopla: Why Android WIll Never be First

Apple announces record 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales in opening weekend

Apple has today announced that it sold 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in the first three days of sales. This includes the 4 million units sold in the first 24 hours of preorder sales.

For comparison, Apple reported 9 million iPhone 5s and 5c sales in the first three days. This means the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus set a new record by over a million units. Apple is unlikely to give any more color regarding iPhone sales performance until its quarterly earnings call in October.

Sprint says iPhone 6 debut was its most successful iPhone launch yet

Thanks to all the @sprint employees today who contributed to the most Succesful iPhone launch in our history It's a privilege to lead Sprint

— MarceloClaure (@marceloclaure) September 20, 2014

Sprint’s newly appointed CEO Marcelo Claure shared on Twitter over the weekend that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus debut marked the most successful iPhone launch in Sprint’s history.

List of best-selling mobile phones – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iOS 8 adoption hits 30% after first weekend of iPhone 6 sales, iPhone 6 usage outpaces 6 Plus

While iOS 8 adoption was lagging behind last year’s release at just 15% before the official launch of the new iPhones on Friday, it’s now hovering at approximately 30% after record first weekend sales for the new iPhones. That stat, which comes from research and analytics firms Fiksu, Mixpanel, Appsee, & Chitika is below the almost 50% of users iOS 7 had this many days into launch last year.

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