Going to FOSDEM 2010

Geeko Postcard

Today I had a very nice surprise laying on my office desk. It was a postcard from my dear friends from Brno (so called #fedora-cs mafia :-D) depicting a 3D image of a geeko on sand. Luckily I was able to find two shops (here and here) which offer this jewel. The latter one also had the 3D picture so I can share this viewing pleasure with you:

Make your emails more colorful

I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client and I prefer plain-text messages over HTML format. When you view a threaded conversation it looks like this:

Gemcutter + openSUSE Build Service cooperation (idea)

If you are closely following Ruby development and especially the situation around ruby gems, you might already know of Gemcutter. It is a new service, which provides a very easy way how to publish gems and also a good API to deal with them. It is not trying to replace RubyForge as whole, just its gem hosting (+ now defunct GitHub gem hosting) and will soon become the central and the only place for Ruby gems. The whole site is MIT licensed and the code is available on GitHub.

Merry Christmas!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Rocking New Year 2010!

image_url function in Ruby on Rails

If you need to get the full URL of an image, just put the following code snippet into ApplicationHelper module in your app/helpers/application_helper.rb:

Avatars in openSUSE Build Service

Thanks to Tom we now have avatars in openSUSE Build Service, so e.g. Involved Users list looks like this:

Geeko Bus

I travel to work by bus. While they are usually in Prague Public Transit’s traditional colors - red and white, today this one came to bus stop:

GameStore's got a brand new look

Today I applied the new Robert Lihm’s theme called Bento to GameStore web, so it doesn’t look like a quick hack anymore. This theme, which will be used across all openSUSE.org websites in the future, will also help to integrate GameStore into rest of the openSUSE infrastructure. You can visit the site here: gamestore.gk2.sk.

Fedora and openSUSE Community Engagement

The middle of November was very exciting for both Fedora and openSUSE communities. At first, openSUSE project unleashed its 11.2 release, which was followed by Fedora 12 a few days after. I thought it would be interesting to dig into bug reports which were filed during the development of these two releases in respective bugzillas.