by Jono Bacon | Feb 12, 2010 | Random
Today my dad was informed that he will be awarded a masters degree at Cambridge University where he has been studying recently. While I am overflowing with pride over his achievement, what really makes me smile is the incredible journey that led him there. Born and...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 11, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Ubuntu
Earlier this week I announced the plan to put together [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek): a week of IRC tuition sessions aimed at helping opportunistic developers scratch their itches and write fun and...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 10, 2010 | Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Recently I announced [Project Awesome Opportunity](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpportunisticDeveloperWorkflow); an ambitious goal to build awesome collaboration facilities into Ubuntu that makes working together on projects as simple as possible. *Project Awesome...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 10, 2010 | Desktop
Something we have been spending some time working on in this cycle has been fixing the mess that is the system tray. This is based upon an [awesome specification submitted to Freedesktop by KDE](https://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html). The spec has...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 9, 2010 | Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Twitter, identi.ca and Facebook have become an increasingly common medium in which people are communicating. While Google Wave vies to be the next generation of communication (as we waxed lyrical about [on the recent Shot Of...