Articles by Jono Bacon

• Issue 180 - Feature: Equality and open source - Are some more equal than others? We investigate.
  
• Issue 178 - Feature: Inside Qt - We open up the dusty history books and highlight a pivotal component in the open source machine: the Qt project.
  
• Issue 177 - Tutorial: IRC - Take a tour of Internet Relay Chat
  
• Issue 177 - Coding Academy: Create your first Ubuntu SDK app - Get started with the powerful Ubuntu SDK and build mobile, desktop and tablet apps
  
• Issue 176 - Feature:  Ubuntu Phone - Witness the birth of a new phone OS
  
• Issue 172 - Feature: Gramps - Take a trip down memory lane and build a family tree.
  
• Issue 171 - What on Earth: Ubuntu Acomplishments - We check out this new development from Canonical.
  
• Issue 171 - Tutorial: Testing - Use automatic testing to make sure your apps work flawlessly.
  
• Issue 170 - Tutorial: Kazam: record your screen - We demonstrate a fun method of creating interesting and informative screencasts for helping others to learn.
  
• Issue 169 - Coding Academy: Introduction to Django part 4 - We wrap up the series with some tips for common problems.
  
• Issue 169 - Feature: Ubuntu on a Nexus 7 - We show you how to get Ubuntu running on a Nexus 7 tablet.
  
• Issue 168 - Coding Academy: Django - Make Django pretty using Twitter's Bootstrap.
  
• Issue 167 - Tutorial: Django - In part two, we look at how to pre-load data and let users contribute.
  
• Issue 166 - Tutorial: Geany - Get to grips with this IDE
  
• Issue 165 - Tutorial: Django - Learn how to build a web app using this python framework
  
• Issue 159 - Feature: Reporting Bugs - Get started with this fantastic way to contribute to the open source community.
  
• Issue 156 - Tutorial: Creating MIDI and notation - Get started on using some of Linux’s many MIDI tools, including Rosegarden, to make beautiful music.
  
• Issue 154 - Feature: Handling online conflict - Help deal with those sticky situations when tempers get flared in your communities.
  
• Issue 153 - Tutorial: Pencil: Produce life-like moving works with this simple tool - Jono Bacon shows us how to get animated on Linux
  
• Issue 152 - Tutorial: Video editing made simple - Jono unfolds his director's chair and explains how, with a little skill and creativity, you can create stunning videos using OpenShot or PiTiVi.
  
• Issue 149 - Feature: Inside Ubuntu - The distro's community manager takes us behind the scenes.
  
• Issue 148 - Tutorial: Recording your own podcast - The LugRadio creator hooks up some mics and dusts off his headphones to explain how to create and mix your very own podcast.
  
• Issue 147 - Interview: Wim Taymans - We sit down with a core developer of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
  
• Issue 146 - Feature: Canonical - We talk to some of the key players at Canonical who helped to bring Unity to Ubuntu 11.04.
  
• Issue 145 - Feature: Organise your life with Tomboy - We round up stray notes, jottings and ideas using Tomboy and explain how you can, too.
  
• Issue 144 - Interview: Orv Beach and Ilan Rabinovitch - Two volunteer's behind Los Angeles's SCALE conference tell us all about their popular Linux expo.
  
• Issue 144 - Feature: Project management - The Ubuntu Community Manager shares some tips and tricks on running an open source or community project successfully.
  
• Issue 143 - Interview: Mary Colvig - Mozilla's community marketeer tells us about innovation, culture and much more.
  
• Issue 143 - Feature: Land your dream job - The Ubuntu community manager shares some expert advice on how to get your foot on the open source career ladder.
  
• Issue 142 - Interview: David Recordon - Facebook's head of open source talks us through the company's approach to free software, and how HipHop is at the heart of what they do.
  
• Issue 142 - Feature: Unity is almost here - The Ubuntu community manager discusses the plan to move to Unity in 11.04 from the internal perspective.
  
• Issue 141 - Interview: Jon Phillips - Jon from StatusNet tells us about open microblogging and Identica, and how they're challenging the mighty Twitter.
  
• Issue 141 - Feature: The story of design and Ayatana in Ubuntu - The community manager for Ubuntu explores the history of the distro's desktop design.
  
• Issue 140 - Interview: Ruben Vermeersch - The maintainer of popular photo management tool F-Spot provides a snapshot of its status.
  
• Issue 140 - Feature: Get developing! - We show how the community is making it easier for developers to contribute code - and that means you too!
  
• Issue 139 - Interview: Tristan Nitot - The president of Mozilla Europe explains how his projects rose from the ashes of Netscape, and what he thinks of Chrome (and Chromium).
  
• Issue 139 - Feature: Desktop evolution - We track how we got to the desktops we enjoy using today.
  
• Issue 138 - Interview: Roy Schestowitz - As the public face of Boycott Novell, which later changed its name to TechRights, Roy's work has often been controversial, but always underlined by stunning levels of research and cross-referencing.
  
• Issue 138 - Feature: Getting Things Gnome - Get your to-do list in shape with this fantastically helpful Gnome application.
  
• Issue 137 - Interview: Seif Lotfy - Zeitgeist is an event logger that tracks a user's activities and events - we talk to one of its founding fathers.
  
• Issue 137 - Feature:  The burnout cycle - With so many of us plugged into our computers each day, Jono explores how too much can cause us to burn out.
  
• Issue 136 - Interview: Michael Sheldon - We talk to the man rocking the open source audio world with Jokosher and libre.fm
  
• Issue 136 - Feature: How we build Ubuntu - The Ubuntu Community Manager steps back from the coalface to explain how the popular distribution is put together.
  
• Issue 136 - Tutorial: Jokosher: Make a podcast - LugRadio co-founder reveals how to use the app to create your own professional-sounding podcast to air to the masses.
  
• Issue 135 - Feature: Get started with Launchpad - We test drive Launchpad, a powerful place to produce software.
  
• Issue 135 - Interview: Kurt von Finck - We talk to Kurt about MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and vodka.
  
• Issue 134 - Interview: David Siegel - He created the fantastic Gnome Do, he's part of the Ubuntu design team and he's working on some very cool stuff...
  
• Issue 134 - Feature: Get your site off the ground - WordPress is a popular and powerful web publishing system. We take it for a spin and show that it can do more than just blogging about kittens.
  
• Issue 133 - Interview: Paul Davis - We chat to the founder of the Ardour audio multi-tracker project.
  
• Issue 133 - Feature: Building your own community - Ubuntu's community manager looks at how to create your very own community group, or re-energise an existing one.
  
• Issue 132 - Feature: Ubuntu: Meritocracy not democracy - Think that having a say means that you can say what you want? Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon explains why you can't...
  
• Issue 82 - What on Earth: Tenor - How come you can find whatever you want on the internet, but don't know what's on your own hard drive? Will Tenor be able to help?
  
• Issue 79 - What on Earth: Solid - Hit-and-miss hardware management has been the weakness of many a Linux system, but those crafty KDE hackers have a cunning plan.
  
• Issue 66 - What on Earth: Plone - Updating a website with fresh content is a pain - but if you give the job to inexpert users, they might ruin your carefully designed pages. Here's a free system that does the work for you.
  
• Issue 56 - Review:  Blender 2.33a -