Blog posts tagged
"developers"

135 posts

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

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  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

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CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the...

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

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London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work...

Canonical
19 March 2018

Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

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We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications...

Canonical
7 March 2018

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

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If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into...

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

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Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and

Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1

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The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People from Microsoft, Skype, Slack, Electron and CircleCI joined the snap advocacy and Snapcraft teams to crank through their tasks. Snapcraft community superstar Dan...

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

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Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200 global media partners. It’s the only solution that seamlessly combines your personal collection of TV shows, movies, music, photos, and videos alongside live and...

Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

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The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes...

Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical
20 December 2017

Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users

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Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December 20th, 2017 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is happy to announce that Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service, is now available as a snap, the...

Canonical
20 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

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Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around...

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

Canonical
14 December 2017

UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain

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The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo Instituto was built in 1797 as a centre for scientific and technical education. Currently, it is a public space maintained and managed by the City Council and it has

Canonical
14 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

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Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation.

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

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In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped...

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

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