Wednesday 10 June 2015

Magic eBay or UbuSell application development

Hello!


Let's start with my very first project which was a desktop application initially called Magic eBay. Then the name got changed to UbuSell. This is a simple app which generates html code for eBay auction in very fast way with unlimited number of pictures. The UI was initially done by me then Georgi Karavasilev got involved. He came up with new UI and he also created awesome looking templates! Photos where uploaded to either Ubuntu One (which is now discontinued) or DropBox. Unfortunately this app never got released, but I use it from time to time :)



I would like to share few pictures of this application with you


Very first release :)

Adding flat icons...
(this is where Georgi got involved)


More flat icons.

More tweaks from Georgi :)

And another portion of design love from Goergi :D


Theming works!
Creating auction dialog.

This is how generated auction looks like + there
is another 8 extra themes (different colours)






OK!
And this is the moment where Georgi and I had we had great
idea that I'll rewrite the app using QML and C++ and
Georgi will do new design :)
First look of the app in QML

Look how beautiful this could look!
Thumbs up to Georgi for this gorgeous designs!


And here short video:





Did I mention that I'm horrible designer?


My icon
(I hope you get a point now)

Icon created by Georgi :)
You probably see what I mean...




This is it, sadly QML version of the app never even got to alpha version...
GTK version is still on my desktop and it seams to work with every new Ubuntu release :) At this point Ubuntu Touch was unveiled and since then I was 100% focused on QML and JavaScript...


Thanks for your time and till the next one ;)

Cześć!

Thursday 4 June 2015

Introduction - Time to start blogging \o/

Hi!



For those who don't know me, let me introduce myself ;)
My name is Szymon Waliczek and I tend to describe myself as a "freelance open source developer". I've started my journey with coding back in 2011 inspired by Jono Bacon and his tutorial on how to start developing applications for Ubuntu :)

At this point my knowledge about coding was equal to null or undefined ;) so Jono's tutorial was great start for me. Thanks to Jono for this great tutorial! Back then there was all about Python and GTK and this is where I started, on one workspace Chrome with YouTube "python for beginners" and on another terminal with bpython opened (because everyone know that you need to explore and made hundreds of mistakes before you learn something).
In my next blog post I'll share with you my very first desktop app.

In the mean time I was exploring with C++ and bash. After my adventure with Python, C++ and others, Canonical did great entry at MWC 2013 - Ubuntu Phone. Since then I changed the way I spend my free time :D - I started to learn how to develop mobile apps in QML. This is what I mainly do this days.

I'm very open minded person, apart from coding I love repairing cars - from changing a light bulb to rebuilding whole engine :). I also like to do any electrical related repairs and home renovations like tailing, plastering, painting, plumbing. As you can see coding is not all my life but it's huge part of it, however I have to admit that biggest part of my life is my family ;)


Back in February 2015 I was invited to London by Canonical to the launch of the very first Ubuntu Touch phone made by BQ \o/ very well waited moment!
At the same moment me and few other people from community become Ubuntu Insiders.

This is it for now.
In my next blog posts I'll go through my apps development. First Magic Ebay :)

Thanks for reading!
Cześć!

Szymon