Android : Developing a Metro-Style RSS reader

Posted on by David Vassallo

Nowadays the playstore / appstore is awash in magazine style RSS readers. With good reason, since they leverage an existing and widely deployed technology (RSS) to promote and present site content in a very attractive way. The proliferation and ubiquity of mobile devices means that everyone has access to a form factor which lends itself … Continue reading Android : Developing a Metro-Style RSS reader

Lessons Learned : Linux System Tray Icons in python

Posted on by David Vassallo

While programming in python, for an Ubuntu/Linux Mint target, you may want to include a system tray icon for batter interaction with users. In Ubuntu, these are called "application indicators". A basic appindicator icon is quite simple to do in python via PyGTK. There's a very good example here: http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/application-indicators/ Scroll down to the PyGTK … Continue reading Lessons Learned : Linux System Tray Icons in python