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Empathy shipping with Gnome 2.24

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/
Empathy is a Telepathy framework based instant messaging client and its inclusion into GNOME 2.24 means that Telepathy and related libraries will be available on most linux distributions by default.  That will make the life of Spicebird easier in the linux world

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Bug Fixing and Calendar make-over

Last week we had exciting time fixing many bugs on Spicebird - some of them crashers, Sunil committing his work on blogging and the new calendar-theme.
Starting with the 14th of September, the nightly builds have been randomly crashing on windows which a lot of users reported.  The fixes were committed on Thursday and made their [...]

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Long pending updates on Spicebird Development

The Spicebird team was working behind-the-doors for quiet some time and its probably time to start involving the community more closely and to start posting updates more frequently - one summary update every week apart from the normal feature/development blogs.
Here is the current status of Spicebird and following it are the expected timelines for the [...]

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Trying to get back to blogging

It’s been more than a year since I blogged here, it’s not becuase I did not have anything to blog about, but it was mostly because I was away biking in the Himalayas, enjoying the beach in Goa, a boat ride in the Papi Kondalu area of Godavari river, attending the Mozilla Summit or very [...]

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orangemedhas: whats in the name?

Orangemedhas is the name of the software company we founded.  So, what is in the name?
The name is derived from two words “orange” and “medhas”.  Medhas means intelligence in Sanskrit and orange is a color that signifies strength and endurance.  There is another reason why “orange” is good - “O Range”, “Oka Range” and “One [...]

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Orangemedhas - How it all began?

Sometime in the beginning of the 5th semester at IIIT, a couple of us met in Sitha’s room (#152, OBH, IIIT Hyderabad) and were casually discussing about our just finished summer internships. All of us had one common opinion - the companies have a very poor way of managing people and ensuring the processes. [...]

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