Author Archives: Christopher Neugebauer

LCA2012: “Android is Not vi – User Experience for Geeks”

Paris Buttfield-Addison and I co-presented a talk at Linux.conf.au in Ballarat recently. The topic was on designing mobile apps that don’t suck on Android. The talk was pretty well received, the audience attentive and engaged (as evidenced by the fact … Continue reading

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PyCon Australia 2012 – Call for Topics now open

In case you missed the news, PyCon Australia is being held on August 18th and 19th in Hobart, Tasmania. Like the first two PyCon Australia conferences, 2012 hopes to be full of presentations, tutorials and panel sessions from experts and … Continue reading

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PyCon Australia 2012 starts here

So one thing I forgot to mention on this blog is that I’ve taken over the reins of PyCon Australia for the 2012 and 2013 conferences. After spending two formative years in Sydney, under the direction of Tim Ansell, Richard … Continue reading

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Linux.conf.au 2012

Miniconf: organised Talk: accepted Attendance: confirmed Accommodation: booked Ferry crossing: reserved See you in January, Ballarat!

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Google Reader obit.

Google Reader’s just announced that they’re turning off reader sharing progressively from today. I wrote the following in my share stream a few moments ago, and realised that this was massively counterproductive — it will probably disappear in a few … Continue reading

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RIP Dennis Ritchie

Although I did not know the man, the contributions of Dennis Ritchie have have a profound effect upon my life and the community with which I associate. I interact with systems inspired by the first versions of UNIX, and write … Continue reading

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Linux.conf.au 2012 Open Programming Miniconf — Call for proposals now open

TL;DR — submit a proposal at http://tinyurl.com/opm2012-proposal before the first round closes on Friday 7 October. I’m pleased to announce that The Open Programming Miniconf, a fixture for application developers attending Linux.conf.au since 2010 is returning as part of Linux.conf.au … Continue reading

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San Francisco Streets

I really like this shot — looking up Pine Street in San Francisco, with a B&W conversion done by punching a bunch of buttons in *cough*iphoto*cough. I’ve been told it makes a good background screen for a certain 2:3-ratio mobile … Continue reading

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Time Flies! (Adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, part 1)

… When you’re completely distracted by all manner of things! So, as promised, here are a bunch of pretty photos of the things that I’ve done whilst here:   Wandered around San Francisco, looking at the awesome architecture… Had fantastic … Continue reading

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Movements

And once again in the flurry of action that occurs during and after LCA, I have completely neglected to update my blog. So since then, I’ve been doing various bits of development work for my benevolent mad scientist overlords at … Continue reading

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