Here are two nice videos explaining how to do a simple deb package.

This is a great way of getting people to become a MOTU:

KDE or, for us GNOME lovers, “the other one” (just kidding) was just released with an aim in testers and lovers in order to identify issues.

Give it a chance if you want to check a great graphical environment.

BluePad v0.5 has just been released.

This new version features a complete redesign of the main menu to support more variate phone screens.
Also, the Title Screen of death that makes you press 5 every time you use BluePad is now gone forever!!

Apart from that, some part of the code was also refactored.

Currently the new version is only available on SVN but we plan on releasing it to SourceForge ASAP.

Here’s how to get the new jar:

$ svn co https://bluepad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluepad/trunk/bluepad_mobile

This will create a bluepad_mobile folder in your current directory containing BluePad and BluePad_alternative folders.
The jar is inside the bin folder of both of the BluePad mobile versions.

Use the regular BluePad version unless you have a Nokia S60 or another phone that doesn’t like the normal version.
Hope you like the new main menu. The next scheduled changes will make BluePad even better but that’s a secret kept in a scroll deep in a mysterious Portuguese city’s catacombs where everybody can go in but only me and Valério come out alive.

So, after a few work, BitNami has just released the DjangoStack.
For a brief introdction of BitNami Stacks in case you don’t know them.

Stacks are packages that make it easy to install and deploy open source applications. They join the main application and all its dependencies in a cross-platform installer. This way you can install Django, SQLite, MySQL, Apache and all of their dependencies, and choose whether to create a new project at installation time, use MySQL or SQLite… etc. with just a few clicks and answers!!
Now ain’t this cool!?

This first release is available for Linux and Mac OS X users.

Also check out the other great apps available from BitNami.

It’s been a while since I uploaded BluePad to GNOME Files and right now (I don’t know about the next 15 minutes though…) we’re on second place of the best rated chart. Oh yeah! We’re ahead of Brasero, Xfce or Geany (which we used to write BluePad actually). We’re not competing, of course, but we’re proud to see our “little app” to stay on that list among such great software as well.

If you use a GNU/Linux distro, a JAVA capable cellphone and haven’t tried BluePad yet, what are you waiting for??

By the way, if you want me, or Valério (or both) to be speakers at a conference, drop us an email, we love to give presentations!