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Update on the Bug Squad
One month on.. It is a month(ish) already since we started the Bug Squad (call to join the team through the Symbian Developer Forums). I am pretty pleased with the participation so far and also with...
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Improving Code Contributions
If you have been dowloanding code from the mercurial repos, you would have notice some spooky coincidences… most package MCLs update all at the same time! Well you can relax, our repos are not posses....
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There be Geckos here… arrggh!
I have previously blogged about the Bug Squad , but today I wanted to focus a bit more on the kudos aspect of the programme. Geckos and Gold! The Kudo unit for the programme is a Gold Coin. We chose...
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My Package Dashboard – A Web Widget for Symbian about Symbian
You might have noticed how much Symbian is pushing the Web Run Time as an environment for application development, as it is thought to be really simple to do. I can confirm that it is! After talking to...
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Symbian^2 Success Story: 24 Contributions and Counting
If you have been following the Symbian world, the latest hot news is the announcement of the first Symbian^3 phone by Nokia (the N8). However, between Symbian^1 and Symbian^3 there is missing number –...
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PDK3.0.i: Qt and Symbian
PDK_3.0.i has now been released and contains pre-build QT4.6.2. QT is a graphical runtime that will become the main UI environment in Symbian^4. It makes writing applications for Symbian much simpler...
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Translating the podcatcher
The Symbian Bugsquad is hosting test and fix days for the S^1 and S^3 podcast app: The podcatcher! One type of contributions that is often overlook is localisation of applications to other languages....
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The value of the first contribution
Since we started the BugSquad, we had many people come and go from the mailing list, some of them show to the IRC sessions… however most of the ones that do contribute at least once (raising or fixing...
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Making Ordinary Laptops Into Ubuntu Laptops
In previous posts , I have mentioned the certification efforts that Canonical is putting into Ubuntu. However, it takes more than running test to make sure that Ubuntu runs well in a system. Systems...
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Ubuntu Commercial – Community Sourced!
I recently got this video forwarded to me and I think it’s incredible that this is done by someone in the community. Shows a lot of passion and talent! Well done InfinetlyGalactic!
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