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The online team at The Economist recently set up a Launchpad project, using a commercial subscription. I asked Mark Theunissen, from The Economist Group, about their plans. Mark: We’re migrating the existing Economist.com stack from Coldfusion/Oracle to a LAMP stack running …
Thomas Pietrowski is an 18 year old high school student in Solingen, Germany, whose mopedix project aims to create a control system for mopeds and other vehicles. Matthew: Tell us more about mopedix Thomas: My software system is split into two different parts. First of all there …
The Sikuli project recently switched to using Launchpad. I asked Tsung-Hsiang Chang to tell me more about the project. Matthew: Your website says, “Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).” That …
Chat bots can be controversial. Apart from the fun to be had watching a friend carrying out an inadvertent Turing test, finding the right balance between useful information and annoyance seems to be one of the harder aspects of chatbotology. I spoke to Jonathan Hitchcock, Michael …
Image no longer available Xibo is a free software signage system. I asked its lead developers, Alex Harrington and Dan Garner, about the project. Matthew: So, does Xibo power the sorts of display we see in train stations and airports? Alex and Dan: Yes, and in shops, post …
I spotted this link in my Facebook news feed yesterday: MySQL at Facebook is a Launchpad project to which Facebook publishes its patches for MySQL. There is also a Facebook note announcing the new project. Surely Launchpad’s social networking credentials are in order now, …
Image no longer available: Zim logo Zim is a desktop wiki that use both Launchpad and Bazaar. I asked Jaap Karssenberg, its founder and main developer, about the project. Matthew: How does Zim compare with something like Tomboy? Jaap: I really don’t know as I never used …
Last month we made a small change to the series page as a commitment to making a distinction between the driver for a project and the driver of a series. The drivers of a project have the power to make the decision of what features go into a release. But the driver of a series is …
Open Mind is an open source effort to create a database of common sense concepts. I asked Catherine Havasi, Rob Speer and Ken Arnold about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: Open Mind is almost the stuff of 1950s science fiction. You’re building a database of …
Launchpad has a little known feature that is getting better. The product release finder is a process that runs everyday to locate new releases and import them to Launchpad. The process uses the series’ Release file pattern to locate files and import them to the appropriate …
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