David Greaves announced a milestone in the Mer project: The Mer platform SDK can now assemble itself with mic. Build with osc is also working as are ancillary things like spectacle and kickstarter. Updated instructions are in the Mer wiki.
We've previously covered the effort, being coordinated in a Talk thread, to reverse engineer the phone-number based, cross-platform messaging hit app "WhatsApp". Now "tgalal" has hit a major milestone: A quick status update, I'm now able to send messages successfully. Unfortunately, amongst all the progress and technical discussion is a seeming over-abundance of politics, and newbies asking asinine questions.
Via: @Jaffa2
Talk user "itsnotabigtruck" highlights bug 978 which will affect users using third-party repositories in Harmattan PR1.2: In the upcoming PR1.2 release, the installer contains an issue that will block packages from custom APT repositories from being installed unless they contain Secure APT signatures.
Via: @Jaffa2
Robin Burchell has got the N9's QML Qt Components working on the BlackBerry Playbook: I spent ~2 hours learning how the basics worked, getting a hello world on there, then got QML samegame on there, and then I decided to do something a bit more interesting. I wanted QML components on there to easily write apps for myself (as well as port some N9 apps I've written for myself), so I had a crack at it. Robin's uploaded a YouTube video showing the, very impressive, results.