Ubuntu Tweak is a tool for Ubuntu that makes it easy to configure your system and desktop settings.

Ubuntu Tweak allows a wide variety of customization and one is able to easily remove unneeded applications which just seem to fill up memory. It provides configuration for the following system sections: Applications, Startup, Desktop, System.

It’s maintained by a single developer who has a passion for open source software and he regularly releases updates for the application.

It’s really easy to install and one can install it using the following 3 methods:

1. Download the actual source and then manually install with a batch script

   ubuntu-tweak_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz

2. Download the Debian installation file and just run it

   ubuntu-tweak_0.4.3-1~intrepid1_all.deb

3. Or, use apt-get in the command line. This is what I used and it installed quickly and without any problems

   sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

For more information on Ubuntu Tweak checkout the site at ubuntu-tweak.com and for detailed installations go to the downloads page

It is really easy to set the test suite up and to get going, all you really need are the following two downloads:

1. Selenium core test suite
2. To record tests the Selenium IDE in Firefox

Once you have installed the Selenium core web application and the plug-in for Firefox (Firefox rocks!!) you good to go:

1. Plan the various tests which you would like to run
2. Set the Firefox IDE to record your actions
3. Once you’ve completed a certain test save the test in an .html file
4. Include a link to your test file in your main index.html (TestSuite) file, which acts as a table of contents for the various tests
5. Then you can either run the tests individually or as a batch

If you would like a more detailed tutorial, I found the one on the thinkPHP blog to be quite useful.

As Demian says, you start getting “addicted” to creating tests and eventually try to become a perfectionist – which is a good place to be in if you want to produce error free sites for clients.

The guys at cowboysengines wrote a pretty cool article about the conference idea and they are giving us some solid support!

Please visit the site, at www.technologyforafrica.org and give us some feedback, so that we can give feedback to the speakers, justify sponsorship and organise a really worthwhile event.

Cheers

Instead we will be hard at work in a cold and gloomy London, which is really not as bad as it seems. One of the things we have been working on is a project which is really close to the heart and will hopefully benefit the whole of Southern Africa.

The aim of this project is to hold a “web and emerging technologies conference” in South Africa. We want to get international speakers, who are industry leaders and who would like to give some advice to Africans involved in the Web and IT industry.

I have been doing quite a lot of research over the past few months and I really believe that a conference of this nature will be beneficial to the “African technology community”

We have a site up at and running (www.technologyforafrica.org), which is still undergoing some final testing before we start to contact Southern African companies involved in the IT industry. However, if you have any comments or suggestions please contact one of us, or just post a comment to this article.

I am hoping that we will get positive feedback from the majority of people who we contact because I think the concept of “Technology for Africa” is a fantastic opportunity.