Rotating Wallpaper in Gnome 3 With Python

And now for one of those things that will interest only me - a little python script to rotate wallpaper images from a directory in Gnome 3 (for Gnome Shell or Unity in Ubuntu 11.10). Note: Updated with suggestion from Pa

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Pencil for GUI Prototyping

No, not that kind of pencil. This kind of Pencil. I had to make a quick mockup for a project proposal recently. Quick as in I heard about the project at 10:00am and had the project proposal out the door by 3:00pm (and I

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Podcast

GeoKettle 2.0 RC-1

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DevOps and the Misalignment of Incentives

Every time I hear a new buzz word used to describe crap that’s been going on for decades1 it makes me want to hit someone in the face with a skillet. I’d toss DevOps in that category. DevOps according to wikipedia: devop

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Make Smarter: Game Mechanics for User Engagement, Media Queries, Pure CSS 3D City, 20th Century Fox in Blender, DOD FOSS Lessons Learned

First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a fascinating talk by Nadya Direkova titled Game On: 16 Design Patterns for User Engagement. We GISers do a lot of things well; user experience design (UX) isn’t one of them. If y

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GeoPortal v2.2 is Out

GeoPortal v2.2 is out - get it while it’s hawt. What’s new in GeoPortal v2.2? Glad you asked. Rearranged, prettied, a gutter on the right for scrolling the page, and controls made for fingers. Updated with the late

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Control Group

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Karen Sandler: Freedom From My Heart to the Desktop

I just caught this OSCon 2011 talk by Karen Sandler, formerly of SFLC and now Executive Directory of the Gnome Foundation. Any words I type wouldn’t do it justice, so I’ll just shut up and embed the video.

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Adobe Releases Flash-less Animation Tool

In the didn’t-see-that-coming category, Adobe has released a preview (pre-beta) of Edge, an animation tool for web designers that uses HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. That’s right, it’s Flash Professional. Only without the F

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Study Shows IE6 Users Have Low IQ's

Whoops. Looks like I’ve been had. The story appears to be an elaborate hoax. Dang it Internets! I’ll leave this post here as a kind of self-flagellation. They also snookered the BBC, CNN, Forbes, MSNBC, CBS, and a bunch

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