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Un Blinded by an Eclipse

If looking at the sun can lead to blindness, maybe looking away from the sun can lead to enlightenment...

Taking advantage of the recent solar eclipse, Mark Day published a short video that demonstrates how dappled sunlight results when interwoven leaves act as pinhole cameras.  Its rare and fascinating footage of sunlight, that can only witnessed by avoiding the instinct to look up.



Earlier this month, Punya Mishra was the first person to alert me to this effect, when he shared photos hed taken in 1994.  Just as otherworldly is this shadow photo of the eclipse posted to Twitter by Andrew Rice.



The Big Picture took advantage of the distant alignment of our sun and moon by publishing inspiring photos of the event.  The images are for the most part, of the celestial show overhead, and of people from around the world finding ways to see it.  Being that an annular eclipse is such a rare wonder, it makes perfect sense, but it has me thinking about the wonders we miss, because our attention is focused in the wrong direction.

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Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0 1 Released With Eclipse And Android ADT Support

Update: Ubuntu Developer Tools Center has been renamed to Ubuntu Make.




Changes in Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0.1:

• added Eclipse support as a standalone IDE. Usage: udtc ide eclipse;
• added Android ADT support (through Eclipse). Usage: udtc android eclipse-adt;
• adb and other Android tools are now added to user path while installing an Android framework;
• UDTC now supports framework removal. If you installed a framework and want to remove it, just use: udtc android android-studio --remove;
• enabled loading of local framework. They are controlled by UDTC_FRAMEWORKS env variable which can point to any path containing local frameworks;
• added support for reinstallation in different folder than the origin one, cleaning the original directory;
• DownloadCenter now support redirections;
• added support for decompressing zip files in Decompressor;
• new and refresh translations: de, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, es, eu, fr, hr, it, pl, ru, te, zh_CN, zh_HK;
• improved i18n support;
• protect against mistyping with multiple frameworks;
• framework support refactoring to avoid code duplication;
• tests fixes and refactoring for better scalability;
• fixed logging support during test runs;
• reshape docker files to have fewer layers;
• dont raise any Exception for unexpected CLI args.

Install Ubuntu Developer Tools Center

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:didrocks/ubuntu-developer-tools-center
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-developer-tools-center

udtc android

udtc ide eclipse

For Android ADT support (through Eclipse), use the following command:

udtc android eclipse-adt

udtc ide eclipse --remove

If you want to help with the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center development, report bugs, etc., check out its GitHub page.

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