Category: ubuntu

Amazon RDS Timezone Hack
‘Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.’ – Amazon RDS Website Amazon RDS uses…
2011-08-17
RTFD and Summit
Writing documentation isn’t easy. And maintaining up-to-date documentation isn’t easy either. readthedocs.org is a Django project which was written as part of Django Dash It is backed by RevSys, Python Software Foundation, and Mozilla Webdev. We can write our docs in Sphinx and import it into Read the Docs. I’ve just got it setup for…
2011-07-30
Summit improvements and bug fixes
‘If I do that, I might break Summit!’ That’s something often heard at UDSes by organizers. Indeed, Summit has historically had stability issues, especially during the high-usage week of a UDS. But Summit is starting to outgrow it’s troubled youth, gaining better code, better testing, and most importantly, more stability. The Summit team, consisting of…
2011-07-27
Lighting Talks at UDW
Since the last Ubuntu Developer Week, we’ve been having a session dedicated to project lighting talks, if you have an interesting project that you’re working on, talk about it for 5 minutes. Show case your project and maybe ask for new contributors in this quick 5 minutes per project session! If you’re interested, please add…
2011-07-08
Fix FTBFS Jam
As of me writing this post, there are about 428 packages that have failed to build from source (FTBFS)]. We’re doing a FTBFS jam this Wednesday (29 June, 2011). If you’re interested in helping out, drop by in #ubuntu-motu) and just generally say that you want to help fix FTBFS and someone will be able…
2011-06-27