Of course, you have to announce your new blog posts over Twitter. A cool twitter client is not the worst idea – I personally decided to run Twhirl for this purpose because Twhirl is able to run multiple accounts.
As Twhirl is based on the platform Adobe Air, you first have to install this one.
- Go to http://get.adobe.com/air/, download it to your /home/ folder.
- Open the command line and type
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- Type
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
- The Adobe Air installer will open up now in a new window. You will have to confirm the terms and conditions.
Time to install Twhirl:
- Go to http://www.twhirl.org/ and click to the install button on the right hand side.
- Again, an install routine opens up (inside Adobe Air). Choose your options for the Twhirl installation here.
- A twhirl instance now should pop up. Enter your Twitter name(s) and your password here and you are done.
If you are in business, your companies’ IT policy is perhaps to run Microsoft products like Windows OS only. Although you might have a bit of freedom in this manner (let’s say because you are presenting on Open Source software fairs and need to run a Linux for this case) the switch might be not that easy thinking about Microsoft Exchange, Skype, VPN, Microsoft Office and so on. For me, it is really fun working on Linux and I would like to switch over completely as soon as possible. That’s why I ran Kubuntu as a parallel operating system.
Somehow, I got rid of running KDE on my Ubuntu installation and so I decided to install the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) on a Gnome basis and I was really surprised about it’s simple handling. By the way: Gnome was suspect to me all the times I tried it before. Today I believe it was only about a simple and stupid marketing effect: I didn’t like the combination of brown, purple and orange on the desktop…
So now, let’s beginn with the Skype installation.
As you might know, Skype is proprietary software but obviously everybody in IT uses it. Nevertheless, the installation on Ubuntu is possible even including the update services. First of all you have to implement the Medibuntu sources to your sources.list file running this command on the terminal:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list \
--output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list &&
sudo apt-get -q update &&
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring &&
sudo apt-get -q update
As a next step, install the Skype application:
sudo aptitude install skype
Despite Skype is only provided with version 2.1 on Linux, you are done mate! Somehow you will be connected to your colleagues, friends, etc. in this first step. More to follow.
After my one-week-trip to Barcelona (maybe another blogpost will follow about it) I will go to Freiburg next week, gladly taking part in OXID’s Partner Day 2009 on October, 27th. As usual, a lot of OXID partners will come presenting themselves, discussing about OXID eSales news and attending the so called “Best Solution Award”, an award for the best shopping cart software implementation split up into different categories like design or technical implementation.
Actually, the most valuable events will happen between the talks: Getting in touch with the guys implementing OXID shops day by day and face to face with the clients, will bring more insights during the coffee breaks and in the smoking corners. As I feel that some of our (esp. old-established) partners did not get the Open Source strategy yet I, as the community dude, hope to can bring over this spirit mostly in personal conversations.
Looking forward to see all that mates I know mostly from telephone or Skype conversations, especially our foreign partners to come from Czech Republic, Lithuania, Saudi-Arabia and India.
Alright, you’re not registered yet? Here we go [German]:
http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/partner/partnerworld/anmeldung-oxid-partnertag
