Blog posts tagged
"Development"

55 posts

Igor Ljubuncic
26 November 2021

Craft Parts – Reusable code, Snapcraft style

Article Ubuntu

Throughout the ages, humans have always used simpler tools and materials to create more complex ones. Wood and stone for smelting bronze and iron; iron to create steel; vacuum tubes to create logical gates; logical gates to create advanced arithmetic engines, and so on. Modern software is no different. With Snapcraft in...

Igor Ljubuncic
26 November 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
6 September 2021

How to develop Linux applications for FIPS on Ubuntu

Article Apps

This is the second article in our series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu while this part is focused on the development of FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why should a developer care? Developing applications for...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
6 September 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
3 September 2021

Snapcraft 6.0 is around the corner

Article Ubuntu

A good sign of maturity and confidence in software is when said software utilizes its own components for future development and enablement. Snapcraft is a command-line utility that allows developers to package and distribute their applications as snaps. But Snapcraft itself is also distributed as a snap, and built in...

Igor Ljubuncic
3 September 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
13 August 2021

Snapcraft for Windows – Preview

Article Ubuntu

Two weeks ago, Snapcraft reached its fifth milestone release, 5.0. This version brings in a number of significant changes, including the removal of the base (core) snap, which has been relegated to the 4.X channel track. For snap developers, especially those working in mixed environments, the availability of the first...

Igor Ljubuncic
13 August 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
18 June 2021

How’s my snap faring on different distributions?

Article Ubuntu

The life of an application can roughly be divided into two: everything that happens before it goes live – building, packaging, publication – and then, everything that happens after that milestone. Traditionally, on Linux, developers didn’t always have an easy way of deriving useful numbers on how their software was...

Igor Ljubuncic
18 June 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
11 June 2021

What has snapd ever done for other distros?

Article Ubuntu

Snaps are self-contained applications designed with ease of use, security and portability in mind. They bundle their necessary dependencies, so they can work and run without modifications across numerous Linux distributions. How many? More than 40. Yet, often when technology is strongly associated with a particular...

Igor Ljubuncic
11 June 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
28 January 2021

Want to publish a snap? Here’s a list of dos and don’ts

Article Desktop

Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages and application frameworks are the tools of the trade. But you need the right tool for the right job. If you’re thinking about writing or porting your code to snaps,

Igor Ljubuncic
28 January 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
18 September 2020

The Expandables – snapcraft extensions and the secret code

Article Desktop

If you’re a snap developer, you know that snap development is terribly easy. Or rather complex and difficult. Depending on your application code and requirements, it can take a lot of effort putting together the snapcraft.yaml file from which you will build your snap. One of our goals is to make snap development...

Igor Ljubuncic
18 September 2020

Alan Pope
10 September 2020

Snap! Collaborate and listen!

Article Desktop

You’d think we would be running out of terrible/great (delete as applicable) 80s songs to try and shoehorn into the titles of these blog posts. Turns out, not quite yet! “How can I help?” is a phrase often used in Open Source projects by enthusiastic users and developers. There are a lot of moving parts

Alan Pope
10 September 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
27 August 2020

Snapcraft corner: Staying on track

Article Desktop

Snapcraft channels and, consequently, tracks are an important, highly useful element of the snap ecosystem. Tracks enable snap developers to publish multiple supported releases of their application under the same snap name. All snaps must have a default track – called latest, but there can be many others, giving both...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 August 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
20 August 2020

Tour of the snap developer account in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

Sometimes, you may wonder, what’s on the other side of the curtain? If you’re a developer contemplating snaps, you surely want to know the range of tools and options available in the developer account dashboard in the Snap Store. But some of the features may not necessarily be immediately visible or relevant until...

Igor Ljubuncic
20 August 2020

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Making the MAAS machine list fast with React

Article Design

We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory

Article Cloud and server

There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a developer account in the Snap Store, you can use the integrated build functionality to create snaps. You can also use Launchpad, Electron Builder or a

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
29 May 2020

Snapcraft development tips: how to troubleshoot snaps with services

Article Cloud and server

In the past, we have discussed various ways on how to debug and troubleshoot potential issues during snap development. The ability to quickly iterate, resolve build process hurdles and publish the application in a timely manner is essential to a robust, positive development experience. Today, we would like to outline a...

Igor Ljubuncic
29 May 2020

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