To ease the use of the cake command I wrote a small and simple bash_completion script.
If you are using Linux is probably only an apt command away to have the bash completion. On Ubuntu it is even included in the standard desktop. On a mac you have to install the bash completion via mac ports [...]

Now it’s official. You don’t have to wait for the gibbon to have a full ubuntu studio. You can download ubuntu studio now. It’s a full OS as easy to install as ubuntu. Ubuntu studio includes open source software for graphics, audio and video. This is their first shot so be kind. Ubuntu has very [...]

After the news that Dell offers Ubuntu desktops and notebooks, there is some more great news about my favorite OS. With the next version 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon, there will be a mobile/embedded edition of Ubuntu. The details of this edition will be discussed at UDS in Sevilla starting today. Interesting is that Intel contributes [...]

Due to some legally problems with AOL the Gaim team came up with a new name some weeks ago. So Gaim is Pidgin now and there is already a new look and the 2.0.0 Final Version. Good work guys! There is also a new trac for the development.

Since yesterday the latest version of Ubuntu is released. Ubuntu 7.04 aka the Feisty Fawn comes with the default integration of the network-manager applet, automatic codec download, restricted driver manager, apache 2.2, php 5.2.1 and all the latest in open source software. Ubuntu’s servers and their mirrors had been quite busy yesterday.
With Feisty there [...]

When programming, it’s dangerous to fall in love with your code, as the best solution may often involve throwing half of it away.
Edd Dumbill on agile infrastructure
I’m currently working with CakePHP’s testsuite, which is nice. Generally PHP is behind other languages’ testing implementation (py.test, RoR, jUnit 4.0). But using SimpleTest seemed to be the best [...]

Last week I switched my machines to the latest ubuntu version dapper drake 6.06 which is still beta, but coming out in june. It was pretty easy to upgrade from breezy since the latest installer now upgrades to new releases. Run this command in your terminal:
gksudo “update-manager -d”
So finally after one year beagle and the [...]

I can’t believe, what I’ve just read. This post from Linus Torvalds on the gnome mailing list. What’s going on? It’s such a flame-bait.
My Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is very productive and I don’t miss a thing. Ubuntu’s success is based on the approach to keep things simple and usable which is very similar to what the [...]

Last week I got my desktop/server working again. A few months ago my old Pentium 1GHz said goodbye. Now a Sempron 2800+ with 1 GB RAM is doing its job. I replaced my X-less Gentoo with Ubuntu Breezy. Up and running in 30 Min. Enjoying the fresh gnome installation I thought about how much time [...]

is coming on September 7th. Read Davyd Madeley’s A Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12 and Citizen428’s blog entry.
It’s great to have a nice MP3 Tagger for Gnome. There was only Cantus before, but no integration of Amazon and even better MusicBrainz.
There are two more new mono application I’m using:

Desktop search: Beagle
Desktop wiki: Tomboy [...]