My Twitter Digest for 03/06/2015

Using DejaDup To Back Up Your Ubuntu Desktop

Déjà Dup is a nice graphical wrapper around the command line backup tool duplicity. It hides the complexity of backing up the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the back end. Déjà Dup does not use cron or similar schedulers. Rather, it starts a program deja-dup-monitor when you log into your session. This keeps track of when you last successfully backed up and will wait until the next scheduled backup.

via How to backup your Ubuntu Desktop with DejaDup.

Back ups are very important. Probably something I should do with my desktops more often.

My Twitter Digest for 03/03/2015

My Twitter Digest for 03/02/2015

Maqetta is a drag and drop UI design tool that runs in your browser

Drag-and-drop HTML5 authoring in your browser

Need to prototype an HTML5 app? Forget coding. Hand-eye coordination is just about all you need to prototype with Maqetta, a browser-based WYSIWYG tool for desktop and mobile applications. This first article in a three-part series introduces this free, open source project that runs in a browser and lets designers drag and drop a rich set of widgets to build live UI mockups. In Part 1, get to know Maqetta’s major functions and features while prototyping a realistic mobile application.

Maqetta means mockup, Part 1: Design an HTML5 mobile UI http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/mo-maqetta-1/index.html?ca=drs-

Economist Thomas Piketty to speak at Harvard Law School March 6; discussion will be webcast live from 2-4 pm

Renowned economist Thomas Piketty, professor of Economics, EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, will speak at Harvard Law School Friday, March 6, from 2-4 pm.

Piketty will debate his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Centurywith several Harvard faculty, including: Sven Beckert Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University;Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; and Stephen Marglin, Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

http://today.law.harvard.edu/ces-discussion-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century/

The discussion will be live at http://media.fas.harvard.edu/core/live/hls-live.html on 3/6 at 2 PM ET.