Worldly Tips: Ubuntu App Building Tools: Quickly & Illumination

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Want to write apps on Ubuntu?  Check out the link [1] below on two great tools for writing apps on it.

Quickly [2]

There are a ton of great tools out there for Linux software developers. But it has been only recently that the level of difficulty has been greatly reduced.

The idea is to attract newbie and advanced developers into building worthwhile applications for the various distributions out there. Most successful in this space has been Ubuntu, with a new development tool called Quickly. The Quickly software builder provides Ubuntu users with access to a development tool that can easily build out software based on Python and GTK.


Illumination [3]

Illumination Software Creator is without question easier to use than Quickly for people who have never created software. Unlike veteran software developers, newbies to the developer space haven’t the slightest idea how to lay things out so they work in a usable manner. Therefore using Illumination to “connect the dots” can do wonders to steer newbie developers away from first-time development frustrations.

I tried Quickly yesterday afternoon on my Ubuntu notebook.  Followed the video in the Ubuntu Get Started site [2] and everything went super smoothly, except for one glitch.

I hit the following error when I tried to package the app.

bzr: ERROR: Unable to determine your name.

but thanks to the askubuntu.com [4], I was able to resolve it quickly (pun intended!) with the following command.

bzr whoami "MY NAME <myemail@gmail.com>"

Replace ‘MY NAME’ with your name and ‘myemail@gmail.com’ with your email and you are good to go.

All in, it’s one of the easiest coding experience, and that includes writing GUI for a simple web browser (!)  and packaging everything into a debian package (.deb) that you can share with your friends or upload to Ubuntu Software Centre for the whole world to download!

Now all we need is for PC makers to start shipping with Ubuntu

Happy coding!

 

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Amazing What A Haircut Can Do For People!

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Amazing what a haircut can do for people!

 

More at this link http://imgur.com/a/fg5AG

While looks can sometimes taint people’s perception or impression of us, it is up to us to live our life wholesomely through kind speech, helpful behaviours and loving thoughts.
In the Buddha’s time, the brahmans would often send their best to challenge the Buddha and try to defeat him.  One of them was a brahman called Assalayana who was sent to try to dispute the Buddha’s statement that “All four castes are capable of purity” and not just the brahmans. [1]
The Buddha in this dialogue with Assalayana, shows clearly how a person is not pure by birth or by caste but by one’s own actions, speech and thoughts that one differs.
How we really live our life makes us a good or bad person, not our hairstyle, status, wealth or beliefs.
Footnote
It is amusing to hear some people assert that Buddha is a manifestation of the Hindu God or that Buddhism branched from Hinduism or from the Brahmans when we see numerous attempts by the brahmans to dispute or defeat the Buddha in his statement, and how the Buddha do not support the brahman’s vedic teachings or its caste system.
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