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 Several months back I was asked by some folks if I'd like to talk about the BUG at ØREDEV, in Malmo, Sweden.  I'm pretty excited about it and am in fact throwing together a pretty interesting tutorial.  It's a great opportunity to get my head of the gears for a bit and see the BUG from a more general perspective: as a cohesive set of APIs and hardware.  It will be my first time at...

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Last night we released a new version of the Dragonfly SDK. Here are the details:Download and update site URL can be found here.Release notes and install guide can be found here.Happy Holidays to everyone!

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Some of the evening crew had some champagne to celebrate the US election today.  According to predictions this election will have the largest voter turnout ever in US history!

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As happy consumers of user interface technologies from the Gnome-Mobile project, we are always interested to know what's coming down the pipe next.  Recently an interesting discussion on proposed goals for the project was started by Stormy Peters and it evolved into a discussion on the very nature of the project.  It makes for good reading if your curious about the future of mobile Linux user interfaces and a great example of communities and projects...

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So, over the past few weeks I've been working on porting the linux kernel v 2.6.27.2 over to the bug. The driving force behind this was the addition of some much need instrumentation and debugging tools to the Kernel tree. We'd also prefer not to fall too far behind the current kernel release. Up to now we have been debugging almost exclusively with printk's which, depending on your point of view, might seem either arcane...

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 hrw, the latest to join the bug developer team, has provided us with a precious little gift: buglabsbot.  Mainly, it can dance:   (04:09:26) kgilmer: buglabsbot: dance  (04:09:28) buglabsbot: 0-<  (04:09:30) buglabsbot: 0-/  (04:09:30) buglabsbot: 0-\ But it can also do things like alert us to build failures and such.  So exciting!  Come to #buglabs on freenode to see our wonderfull little friend!

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Just a quick note that we've release a new version of the SDK today. This is a minor release of fixes and an nice upgrade of Concierge/CTE. Download: http://buglabs.net/downloadsUpdate site url: http://buglabs.net/sdk/production/current/updatesite/Release notes: http://bugcommunity.com/wiki/index.php/Dragonfly_SDK_Release_Notes#1.4_Releases

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I'm off to sunny (well today at least) California for the Java Mobile, Media & Embedded Developer Days Conference.  I will have a session about BUG that focuses on our Java and OSGi technologies and APIs.  I should be an interesting time and I get to talk about some new modules we are working on and hopefully get some feedback on BUG as a whole and our APIs specifically.  I will also get to meet...

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