My pet project BillReminder was featured in the third episode of ProgBox, kicking off the brand new section “Pimp My Project”! It was also featured as an exemple on packaging software for Arch Linux (sorry, Brazilian Portuguese only) written by Hugo Dória. So, watch the show, read the guide if you can, and use BillReminder! :)

I finally have my pet project BillReminder packaged for Ubuntu Hardy and Debian, thanks to Diogo Autílio and Gabriel Falcão! The packages (*.deb) can be downloaded from the project’s downloads page, or for the lazy: Ubuntu Hardy Debian As always, constructive feedback, patchs, and sugestions can be provided via our support system.

Laundry basket: US$15 Shower curtain: US$10 15 gallons of water: a few bucks A makeshift swimming pool in a hot Spring day: priceless!

Today I subscribed to ShowMeDo, a web site dedicated to providing tutorials in the format of screencasts. The tutorials cover many programming topics with Python being the one that got me to get a paid subscription. I managed to watch a few episodes during my lunch break… and was blown away at how easy it is to follow the sessions! Before anyone ask, I’m not getting paid for this plug… I know quite a few people who have shown interest in learning Python but didn’t know how to get started.

I’ve finally found time to upload some of my pictures and movies to Flickr and Youtube. Videos: Yv singing something she learned at school from her friends (with a butterfly painted to her face). Kate babling away! Pictures: More pictures here!

Openbox just keeps getting better and better! The new support for XDG files is just what the doctor recommended. See the full changelog here.

Yesterday I sent out an email to the members of the Ubuntu Brazilian Council (of which I’ve been a member for quite some time now) informing of my decision to step down. For the last few months I have been extremely busy at work as well as keeping up with the translations for GNOME, XFCE, Ubuntu and my pet project BillReminder. As if this wasn’t enough, Kate, my youngest child is now 14 months old and walking all over the apartment… and Yv is almost 7 already!