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"Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store [yesterday] after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new license payment offer. However, Germany-based users may still face the loss of their push email iCloud service after a separate ruling. 'A suspension like this is available only against a bond, but Apple is almost drowning in cash and obviously won't have had a problem with obtaining and posting a bond.' ... A statement from Apple said: 'All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple's online store in Germany shortly.'"
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<p>Today, I’ve chosen to map all Ubuntu Members with a public lat/lon, sized by Karma.</p>
<p>The sizes relate to if the Karma is greater then:</p>
<p>1: 10</p>
<p>2: 50</p>
<p>3: 100</p>
<p>4: 500</p>
<p>5: 1000</p>
<p>6: 2000</p>
<p>7: 7000</p>
<p>8: 15000</p>
<p>9: 25000</p>
<p>10: 50000</p>
<p>So, without further adieu, here’re some maps!</p>
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<p>A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Microsoft">Microsoft</a> úgy gondolja, hogy a legjobb módja annak, hogy az Office 365-öt, Hotmail-t <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/02/02/gmail-and-google-apps-got-you-down-try-hotmail-amp-office-365.aspx">reklámozza</a> az, hogy cinkeli a konkurenciát. Nem ez az első eset. Volt, amikor az Apple volt a kifigurázás tárgya. Persze volt, hogy a célba vett cég visszalőtt...</p>
<p><!--break--></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HUP/~4/cgSLMO69LdE" height="1" width="1" />HUPhttp://hup.huHungarian Unix Portal"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis M. Ritchiehttp://hup.hu/rss.xml2012-02-04T23:35:33+00:00Ubuntu: Tony Whitmore: Ubuntu Podcast, Season 5http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/?p=13212012-02-04T16:01:42+00:00<p>We’re going out for the Planning Curry for season five of the <a href="http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org">Ubuntu Podcast</a> this week. Over the years, it has become a tradition for all the presenters to go out for a curry before the start of the season. It’s a time to catch up in person, as we haven’t seen much of each other since the end of the last season. But it’s also a chance to discuss any changes we want to make to the show and throw ideas for new segments around. So, if there’s anything you’d like to see in the new season, whether it’s an idea for a segment or a change to something we already do, please let us know. You can leave a comment on this blog post or get in touch using any of the methods on the <a href="http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/get-involved/">show website</a>. Thanks! <img src="http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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Along the way I’ve always come accross two problems:</p>
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<li>“I can’t do X (usually programming), how could I ever be useful to a project”</li>
<li>“This is so overwhelming, I don’t even know where to start.”</li>
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<p>I’ve done a lot of things to overcome this but it wasn’t ever enough somehow. Today I am at FOSDEM presenting a book, that will be another step towards fixing these problems. <strong>Today I am releasing Open Advice.</strong><br />
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Open Advice is the result of the <strong>collaboration of more than 50 people from all across Free Software</strong>. It is a collection of short essays about key things the authors wished they had known when they started contributing to Free Software. It’ll give a headstart to everyone who wants to contribute. It’ll also be useful for existing contributors who want to know a bit more about other projects and areas of contribution.</p>
<p>The book is available as a paperback and free PDF and is licensed under CC-BY-SA.</p>
<p>What are you waiting for? <a href="http://open-advice.org">Download the PDF version today or order a printed version.</a></p>
<p>Additional goodies: The <a href="https://github.com/lydiapintscher/Open-Advice">LaTeX source</a> is available and a <a href="https://github.com/lydiapintscher/Open-Advice/issues">bug tracker</a> exists as well.</p>
<p>A year ago I started working on this project and today it is reality. If you’re at FOSDEM I’m sure you can see me bouncing around with joy <img src="http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>Ubuntuhttp://planet.ubuntu.com/Planet UbuntuPlanet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml2012-02-05T07:01:57+00:00SlashDot: The Destruction of Iraq's Once-Great Universitieshttp://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0414251/the-destruction-of-iraqs-once-great-universities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed2012-02-04T10:12:00+00:00<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br />
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<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1919854">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1919854</a></p>
<p>There have also been several threads on kernel panics with the 3.2 version:</p>
<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1913073">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1913073</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1896087">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1896087</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1910857">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1910857</a></p>
<p>My own problem was solved by removing an SD card from the card reader, but that really is only a work around. The problem looks to be solved with the next kernel release.</p>
<p>The classroom session effenberg0x0 and I put on at UDW went well, but we found we had to much information for the length of the session. We are in discussion about doing some sessions using the Community Learning Project.</p>Ubuntuhttp://planet.ubuntu.com/Planet UbuntuPlanet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml2012-02-05T07:01:57+00:00SlashDot: Yes We Can (Profile You): a Brief Primer On Campaigns and Political Datahttp://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2259208/yes-we-can-profile-you-a-brief-primer-on-campaigns-and-political-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed2012-02-04T00:20:00+00:00<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br />
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From the ice inside your soul<br />
<em>Christina Perri — Jar of Hearts</em></blockquote>
<p>I bet at four o'clock this morning you weren't in a police station.</p>
<p>Or, at least, if you were I bet you were drunk and I bet it wasn't voluntary.</p>
<p>After the usual Friday night poor showing from my local pub (people who
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/sil">follow me on twitter</a> will be aware that
the torture of watching a hundred people think they're affirming their lives
by singing Mr Brightside at the top of their voices is a regular part of my
balanced weekly diet), I walked home, on a cold and cloudless night. I live
about ten minutes walk from town, so the walk's no hardship, except that I was
dressed in shirt and no coat and it was, as mentioned, cold.</p>
<p>I need to be clear about this. Ten degrees below zero, Celsius, is seriously
chilly when you're standing in it in shirt-sleeves. I'm sure people in actually
cold places like Canada or Minneapolis or Refrigeration, North Dakota will be
laughing mockingly at this point, but firstly, bugger off, secondly I bet you
lot bother to put a coat on when you go out, thirdly it's not two in the morning
for you, and fourthly bugger off.</p>
<p>Anyway, I get home and... no door key in my pocket.</p>
<p>You know that feeling when the Fist of Fear grabs your balls when you realise
something disastrous has happened? (I don't know what the Fist grabs for women.
Feel free to fill me in, or actually maybe not.) Anyway: yeah, that. I went
through the usual search-all-pockets-and-then-search-them-all-again routine,
just in case a mischievous cold-tolerant leprechaun hid my key from the first
search and then put it back, and... no door key. Oh dear.</p>
<p>I'll tell you this; the walk back to the pub again seems a much longer trek.
Nowhere near as long as the second return to the house without my key, though,
after it turned out no-one had handed it in. And now, what the hell to do, eh?
I'm not prescient enough to hide a key in the garden, especially since that's
a damned good way to come home one night and find no television where a
television used to be, so... locksmith? Do they have 24-hour locksmiths? I can't
be the first moron to have done this.</p>
<p>If you're bored today, I have a suggestion for you. Go and find a dude who
claims to be a 24-hour locksmith and punch him in his stupid lying face.</p>
<p>Incidentally, how in Jah's name did anyone manage in this situation five years
ago without a smartphone, huh?</p>
<p>Not that the internet helps when no-one frigging answers their
supposedly-24-hour phone. Also, it turns out that about four of the local
24-hour locksmith companies are actually the same company, who did answer their
phone, agreed to send someone, and then after an hour of me standing in the
freezing bloody freezing cold confessed that they didn't actually have anyone
to send.</p>
<p>It's now half three in the morning, and the shivering is starting to get on
my nerves, and I can't get into my house without destroying something like
a double-glazed plate glass window which will cost me hundreds of pounds to fix
and my hands are shaking enough that I can barely light a cigarette, let alone
throw a brick through a door that probably wouldn't break anyway, and I'd like
to avoid the police showing up since I have no way of proving that I actually
live here except for being able to describe where all the broken bits of
skirting-board are, and everywhere is closed and the doors are all locked
and it's really spectacularly bone-shudderingly mightily arse-clenchingly
ridiculously psychopathically cold, and what to do? I tried sleeping in the
shed. Now, cold is not like wind. Being inside a thin empty
wooden building does not protect you from it. I was shivering like a jackhammer
on a bouncy castle and it was becoming clear, even in my not-very-operational
brain state, that lying on the floor at minus ten with only a shirt on could
quite possibly lead to me actually freezing to death for real.</p>
<p>Well, if the police came, either I'd get into the house or they'd arrest me,
and being arrested would at least make me warm, and right now I'd cut my right
hand off if Pol Pot showed up as long as he brought a pair of gloves and some
soup.</p>
<p>And then, through the frozen and frosty neurons came the sparkling thought
that the police <em>station</em> would be open, wouldn't it?</p>
<p>I actually felt warmer just at the thought. Not much warmer, though.</p>
<p>Anyway, that's how I came to be sitting in the cop shop voluntarily at
four am. One lovely copper even made me a cup of tea after I poured out my
tale of woe in one long sentence, breaking only for my teeth to chatter together
like I was trying to bite through the world.</p>
<p>Police stations: while I appreciate that you're generally there to deal with
miscreants and so on, it wouldn't kill you to get rid of two
screwed-to-the-ground plastic chairs and put in, say, a chaise longue. After
switching my phone to airplane mode I managed to eke out enough battery life
that I could sit and read while huddled up against the radiator for five hours
until nine o'clock this morning, whereupon I went and fetched the spare key from
my estate agent after the longest and coldest and most sleepless night I have
ever experienced.</p>
<p>So, tips, for surviving a similar situation.</p>
<ol>
<li>Have a spare key. Note: I do not have a spare key hidden in my garden,
burglars, so don't go looking for it. I do not know how to have a spare key
somewhere where you can get at it but thieves cannot; suggestions
welcomed.</li>
<li>Have a girlfriend so that there's someone to let you back in.</li>
<li>Next time you see a policeman, be nice to him.
</li></ol>
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<p> * Rebase to upstream stable v3.2.3 and essentially v3.2.4</p>
<p>The full changelog can be seen at:</p>
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<p><a href="http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/">0 A.D.</a> is an awesome cross-platform game that is fun, has stunning graphics and is completely open source.<br />
There's even a <a href="https://launchpad.net/~wfg/+archive/0ad">PPA for Ubuntu</a>.<br />
It works wonderfully on both my laptops.</p>
<p>They are looking for a round of donations to pay for some more development work, and as of this moment they're $634 USD short. I've just sent $50 their way.<br />
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<ul>
<li>sudo apt-get install lxc qemu-user-static</li>
<li>sudo lxc-create -n armhf01 -t ubuntu — -a armhf -r precise</li>
<li>sudo lxc-start -n armhf01</li>
<li>Then login with root as both login and password</li>
</ul>
<p>And enjoy an armhf system running on your good old x86 machine.</p>
<p>Now, obviously it’s pretty far from what you’d get on real ARM hardware.<br />
It’s using qemu’s user space CPU emulation (qemu-user-static), so won’t be particularly fast, will likely use a lot of CPU and may give results pretty different from what you’d expect on real hardware.</p>
<p>Also, because of limitations in qemu-user-static, a few packages from the “host” architecture are installed in the container. These are mostly anything that requires the use of ptrace (upstart) or the use of netlink (mountall, iproute and isc-dhcp-client).<br />
This is the bare minimum I needed to install to get the rest of the container to work using armhf binaries. I obviously didn’t test everything and I’m sure quite a few other packages will fail in such environment.</p>
<p>This feature should be used as an improvement on top of a regular armhf chroot using qemu-user-static and not as a replacement for actual ARM hardware (obviously), but it’s cool to have around and nice to show what LXC can do.</p>
<p>I confirmed it to work for armhf and armel, powerpc should also work, though it didn’t succeed to debootstrap when I tried it earlier today.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>Ubuntuhttp://planet.ubuntu.com/Planet UbuntuPlanet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml2012-02-05T07:01:57+00:00SlashDot: RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Acthttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1716210/riaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed2012-02-03T18:00:00+00:00<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br />
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<p>Last month i get a call and email from FOMCA representative asking community to support their national program <strong>Access to Knowledge- National Campaign on A2K Policies , Campaign to promote Open Source Software to consumers</strong> . We (Ubuntu-my) are more than happy to corporate and collaborate with FOMCA to do our best to make the policy & campaign success. I will bring this topic to our <a title="Ubuntu-my 1st Meetup 2012" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/244221392320974/">1st Ubuntu-my Meetup for 2012 </a></p>
<p><strong>Overall objective:</strong> Increase the uptake of free, legal software for Malaysian consumers<br />
<strong>Specific objective:</strong> Create awareness among Malaysian suppliers and consumers to encourage the use of open source software which is the Ubuntu Linux instead of FreeDOS to provide a better computing experience and also reduce piracy</p>
<p><strong>Activities:</strong><br />
1. Conduct an awareness seminar/workshop on piracy issue and access to knowledge. In this session, we can introduce the Ubuntu Linux operating system and how vendors and consumers can play a role in fostering the uptake of open source software and thereby reducing piracy.<br />
2. Collaborating with the local community to promote the use of Ubuntu Linux among consumers<br />
3. Promoting this campaign in our existing consumer websites under FOMCA.</p>
<p><strong>Impact expected:</strong><br />
Consumer to have at least an awareness of the existence of free open source software and that they do have an alternative choice and at the same time can help in reducing piracy without having any disadvantage. We aim for this campaign to get the attention of the<br />
industries as well as the government to come up with policies to encourage more open source software and move towards having more awareness session to make consumers understand and aware of their choices.</p>
<p>Here i share the full post by FOMCA and draft brochure for the awareness program.</p>
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<p>In <a href="http://agateau.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/swimming-against-the-stream-or-preparing-for-next-stream-change-pyqtwebkit-experiments/">Part 1</a> I described how to embed WebKit in a PyQt application and how to expose PyQt objects in WebKit and manipulate them with JavaScript.</p>
<p>Even if you are a great JavaScript master, you can’t avoid the occasional typo while writing JavaScript code in your application. This can be quite frustrating with QtWebKit because it likes to stay quiet: it won’t tell you about any error.</p>
<p>Let’s have a look at an example.</p>
<p>First here is loader.py, a simple Python script which loads a block of HTML:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: python;">
import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *
class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
self.view = QWebView(self)
layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.setMargin(0)
layout.addWidget(self.view)
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
html = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
window.show()
window.view.setHtml(html)
app.exec_()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
</pre></p>
<p>And here is “broken.html”, our broken HTML code:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: xml;">
<html>
<head>
<script>
function brokenFunction(arg1, arg2) {
var result;
result = arg1 * 2;
result += arg2;
resul /= 4;
return result;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Complex computation:
<script>
document.write(brokenFunction(2, 3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
</pre></p>
<p>Notice the missing ‘t’ in “resul /= 4″?</p>
<p>The last-resort, grandpa-debugged-js-this-way, debugging tool is still there: the mighty alert() function. Just stuff your code with calls to alert() and be happy… Anyone ever wrote code like that?</p>
<p><pre class="brush: xml;">
<html>
<head>
<script>
function brokenFunction(arg1, arg2) {
var result;
result = arg1 * 2;
alert("1");
result += arg2;
alert("2");
resul /= 4;
alert("3");
return result;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Complex computation:
<script>
document.write(brokenFunction(2, 3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
</pre></p>
<p>Easy enough, no? With the great alert() function we can quickly pinpoint the bug in our brokenFunction() is between alert(“2″) and alert(“3″).</p>
<h2>Can we do better?</h2>
<p>alert()-style debugging gets old very fast. Clicking that “OK” button is a pain. Fortunately, there is a way to get more useful feedback from our PyQt application.</p>
<p>The job of the QWebView class is to show the content of a QWebPage instance. By default QWebView creates its own instance of QWebPage, but it is possible to replace this instance with our own QWebPage. The QWebPage class has a few virtual methods. Among them, the javaScriptConsoleMessage() method is the one we are looking for: it is called every time console.log() is called from JavaScript.</p>
<p>Here is an implementation of WebPage which uses Python logging module to get JavaScript console messages out:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: python;">
import logging
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *
class WebPage(QWebPage):
"""
Makes it possible to use a Python logger to print javascript console messages
"""
def __init__(self, logger=None, parent=None):
super(WebPage, self).__init__(parent)
if not logger:
logger = logging
self.logger = logger
def javaScriptConsoleMessage(self, msg, lineNumber, sourceID):
self.logger.warning("JsConsole(%s:%d): %s" % (sourceID, lineNumber, msg))
</pre></p>
<p>And here is “loader-log.py”, a loader which uses this class:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: python;">
import os
import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *
from webpage import WebPage
class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
self.view = QWebView(self)
self.view.setPage(WebPage())
layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.setMargin(0)
layout.addWidget(self.view)
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
html = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
window.show()
window.view.setHtml(html)
app.exec_()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
</pre></p>
<p>If we load “broken.html” with “loader-log.py” we get the following on stderr:</p>
<pre><code>$ python loader-log.py broken.html
WARNING:root:JsConsole(undefined:0): ReferenceError: Can't find variable: resul
</code></pre>
<p>That should make it easier to find and fix our bug, even if we don’t get very useful file names or line numbers.</p>
<p>javaScriptConsoleMessage() receives all console messages. This means our logger will also print out calls to console.log(). Here is “console-log.html”:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: xml;">
<html>
<head>
<script>
function chattyFunction(arg1, arg2) {
var result;
result = arg1 * 2;
console.log("result" + result);
result += arg2;
console.log("result" + result);
result /= 4;
console.log("result" + result);
return result;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Complex computation:
<script>
document.write(chattyFunction(2, 3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
</pre></p>
<p>When loaded with “loader-log.py”, we get this output:</p>
<pre><code>$ python loader-log.py console-log.html
WARNING:root:JsConsole(about:blank:5): result: 4
WARNING:root:JsConsole(about:blank:5): result: 7
WARNING:root:JsConsole(about:blank:5): result: 1.75
</code></pre>
<h2>Not good enough?</h2>
<p>Getting the output of console.log() is nice, but modern browsers have much more efficient tools: if you open “broken.html” with Rekonq and look at the output in the Web Inspector Console, you can not only see console output, but you can also easily inspect your HTML tree and many other things.</p>
<p><a href="http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rekonq-webinspector.png"><img src="http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rekonq-webinspector.png?w=300&h=148" alt="" title="Rekonq Web Inspector" width="300" height="148" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1083" /></a></p>
<p>Like us, Rekonq uses QtWebKit, so is there a way to get a similar tool?</p>
<p>It is actually possible. Rekonq uses a class named QWebInspector. All that is necessary to get a nice inspector tool for our application is to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Get the QWebView page</li>
<li>set the QWebSettings.DeveloperExtrasEnabled attribute on this page</li>
<li>Instantiate a QWebInspector</li>
<li>Pass the view page to the inspector</li>
</ol>
<p>Here is “loader-webinspector.py”, a new HTML loader which can show a web inspector when one presses F12:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: python;">
import os
import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *
from webpage import WebPage
class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
self.view = QWebView(self)
self.setupInspector()
self.splitter = QSplitter(self)
self.splitter.setOrientation(Qt.Vertical)
layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.setMargin(0)
layout.addWidget(self.splitter)
self.splitter.addWidget(self.view)
self.splitter.addWidget(self.webInspector)
def setupInspector(self):
page = self.view.page()
page.settings().setAttribute(QWebSettings.DeveloperExtrasEnabled, True)
self.webInspector = QWebInspector(self)
self.webInspector.setPage(page)
shortcut = QShortcut(self)
shortcut.setKey(Qt.Key_F12)
shortcut.activated.connect(self.toggleInspector)
self.webInspector.setVisible(False)
def toggleInspector(self):
self.webInspector.setVisible(not self.webInspector.isVisible())
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
html = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
window.show()
window.view.setHtml(html)
app.exec_()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
</pre></p>
<p>The four steps I described are done in the “setupInspector()” method.</p>
<p>And here is “console-webinspector.html”:</p>
<p><pre class="brush: xml;">
<html>
<head>
<script>
function chattyFunction(arg1, arg2) {
var result;
result = arg1 * 2;
console.log("result: %d", result);
result += arg2;
console.warn("result: %d", result);
result /= 4;
console.error("result: %d", result);
return result;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Complex computation:
<script>
document.write(chattyFunction(2, 3));
</script>
</body>
</html>
</pre></p>
<p>It is similar to “console-log.html” but takes advantage of two new features which do not work with the previous approach:</p>
<ul>
<li>printf-style formatting: that is, printing the value of <code>result</code> with <code>"result: %d", result</code>, not <code>"result: " + result</code></li>
<li>log categorization: you can use console.warn() and console.error() to get different type of output. These methods worked with the previous approach, but the categorization was lost.</li>
</ul>
<p>Loading “console-webinspector.html” with “loader-webinspector.py” and pressing F12 we get this:</p>
<p><a href="http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/loader-webinspector.png"><img src="http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/loader-webinspector.png?w=300&h=146" alt="" title="Loader with Web Inspector" width="300" height="146" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1082" /></a></p>
<h2>Closing words</h2>
<p>These two approaches should help you track down the nastiest bugs in your embedded JavaScript code. The Web Inspector approach is probably the most powerful one, but the Python logging approach can also be useful when tracking down bugs where it is more practical to have one single log output for both the PyQt and the JavaScript sides.</p>
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<p>For a non-insider (that is, someone who is not an official Debian Developer), getting a package into the Debian distribution and, by proxy, into the Ubuntu distribution requires getting the attention of someone with sufficient interest and privilege to do the actual upload. It’s called <em>finding a sponsor</em> in Debian parlance, and it’s sometimes a bit of a challenge.</p>
<p>The traditional approach for the last while is to build a source package for your software, make it available somewhere over the internet, and then post a message to the debian-mentors@lists.debian.org mailing list and hope that someone takes the bait. This is usually followed by pleads in IRC and follow-up messages to the mainling list.</p>
<p>Recently, a new workflow was set up in which you file a bug against the sponsorship-requests pseudopackage and hope that someone is interested. Among the advantages of this new workflow is that (a) it’s similar to other Debian workflows you need to learn when packaging software for Debian (for example, the <a title="WNPP" href="http://WNPP.debian.net">WNPP</a> pseudo-package) and (2) there is <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=sponsorship-requests">a place where sponsorship requests are aggregated</a>.</p>
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<li>Package your software.</li>
<li>Upload the source package to <a href="http://mentors.debian.net">mentors.debian.net</a>.</li>
<li>Use reportbug or send an email to submit@bugs.debian.org with a carefully formatted message — see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657649">this</a> for an example. There is no reportbug template available for the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package, so using your usual mail program will probably be easier for now.</li>
<li>When your new bug is confirmed, link to to your WNPP bug if necessary (and it should be necessary). The command “<tt><strong>bts affects</strong> <em>SRbug</em> + <strong>src:</strong><em>srcpkg</em> <strong>. block</strong> <em>WNPPbug</em> <strong>by</strong> <em>SRbug</em></tt>” will do.</li>
<li>Sit back and wait.</li>
</ol>
<p>This new workflow is remarkably similar to <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess">filing an upload request through Launchpad</a>. I assure you it’s a complete coincidence and convergent evolution at work.</p>
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