not waving but drowning

Found or rediscovered a bunch of nice software this week

Spreed.com web-based meetings, with shared whiteboarding, application sharing, video, and soon mindmaps.  Why is it noteworthy? They explicitly support linux, even for whiteboarding and app sharing. The whiteboard is geared toward making notes on top of a presentation, and participants can easily generate a PDF of [...]

podcasting

Originally uploaded by Elliot Murphy

my podcast rig

There is some very big news going around that internet thing today: MySQL has switched from Bitkeeper to Bazaar. I wrote up a quick post on the Canonical blog about the same thing, and Giussepe Maxia has a nice technical post about how to get started working with the new system.
Here’s an excerpt from a [...]

As Paul points out, this new erlrc project is very exciting news. One of the most interesting features of Erlang is how you can do hot code updating, and getting integrated into the package manager is absolutely wonderful. Anyone working on getting this into Ubuntu yet? There is a very nice howto written about how [...]

BazaarX

Originally uploaded by Elliot Murphy

This is a native OS X bazaar GUI! Still in the early stages of development, but making rapid progress towards an alpha release. If you’re rocking bzr on a Mac, go give Martin a hand: https://launchpad.net/bazaarx