This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to program. I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London, the course was just great and the instructor …

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The Bongo-Project needs to be renamed Now before you fall of your chair or swallow your phone while reading this let me explain why. I have been wanting to create this post for sometime now and have been holding off as we are almost ready for our 1.0 release. The problem I have is that even if we released a new version …

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I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out the door but have no markers to …

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I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post …

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I have great news about the images on the rPath system. I have been able to get Bongo 0.6.1 to build on the rPath system with a json patch from Alex. I have promoted it to the QA and RELEASE repo's so it should be available for you guys. Please test and let me know if you have any issues. You can find the images here

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I have been trying to get the latest 0.6.1 release of Bongo onto the rPath images. This unfortunately has not been possible due to our reliance on a newer version of Python than what is available on the rPath system. This is a sad moment as I have been doing that for quite some time now and will not be able to …

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I have been working on the images in the Suse Studio environment as I mentioned in my blog post here. I started the investigations to find that our RPM repository was in need of a bit of work. I wanted to create a new repository in my own name that would allow me to build these RPMs for the project. Thinking about the …

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Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero. This has made me quite happy as I have been forced to run windows mobile on my old phone for far to long and it is refreshing that I have an android phone. The first thing I noticed was that the box was really …

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You will be able to see from the poll archive that the following OS versions seem to be more popular Ubutnu 9.04 (53.0%, 19 Votes) Debian 5 (39.0%, 14 Votes) CENTOS 5 (28.0%, 10 Votes) openSuse 11.1 (22.0%, 8 Votes) Fedora 11 (19.0%, 7 Votes) I will now start to work on the packages for these OS's. From the outset I …

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I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things. In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old. This leaves me with a choice as …

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