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Python - Sorting Lists inside of Lists 6 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
In some recent python code I was playing with I had the need to sort a bunch of lists based on elements within their elements. Thankfully python's built in sort function is plenty powerful and allows ...
Dated Hardware, Waiting for Hardware and the Nokia N900 in 2013 31 May 2013 | 08:38 pm
The Nokia N900 was released in November of 2009 - three and a half years ago. When I bought my first N900 in January of 2010 it was a huge upgrade for me in terms of both speed and software freedom (c...
Samsung ARM Chromebook Review 14 May 2013 | 02:38 am
The Samsung ARM Chromebook is one of a few ARM devices that I prepare Bodhi Linux images for. As such I've owned the hardware for almost six months now and during this time I've used it a fair amount....
Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 Released 1 Apr 2013 | 12:31 am
After almost exactly three months since our Bodhi 2.2.0 release the Bodhi team and I are happy to announce the next update release for our 2.x.y series - Bodhi Linux 2.3.0. Again because this is a min...
Mir, Wayland and the Future of Bodhi Linux 21 Mar 2013 | 06:49 am
Things have been a little quiet around my blog of the late. At the beginning of last month I started a full time position doing some IT related tasks for a major insurance company where I live in cent...
A Fat Stack of Bodhi Linux 27 Feb 2013 | 06:18 am
When I first started preparing Bodhi ISO images almost two and a half years ago I set out with the goal of providing a clutter free operating system powered by the latest Enlightenment desktop. We cal...
Comparison of Linux Desktops OpenGL Performance 16 Feb 2013 | 01:20 pm
With Steam officially being released for Linux I took some time out this evening to run a few benchmarks on my Ubuntu 12.04 based Bodhi system to see how a few of the different modern Linux desktops c...
Tutorial 2: ELM Images, File Selector and Popups 2 Feb 2013 | 03:22 am
This is the second post in my series on developing GUI applications in Elementary using Python. Today we are going to continue building on the Hello Elementary example I started in the first tutorial....
New E17 Stable Snapshot and the First of E18 31 Jan 2013 | 08:45 pm
You read that title right folks. The first showing of Enlightenment DR18 (or E18 for short) has become a reality. Sure, it is nowhere near what the final product is going to look like - but it is a st...
Tutorial 1: Hello Elementary 30 Jan 2013 | 06:03 am
This post is the first in a series I am going to be publishing about using elementary and python to develop applications. The source code for all of the examples I am providing can be found in a GitHu...
