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Karl Williams
13 February 2019

A fresh look for releases.ubuntu.com

Article Desktop

Updating the design of the Ubuntu Releases website using Vanilla Framework

Karl Williams
13 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
7 February 2019

Zero to Hero – Snap me up before you GO!

Desktop Desktop

Two weeks ago, my colleague Alan wrote an article on how one goes about packaging an application as a snap. The focus of that piece was a handful of tips and tricks that should make the transition from raw code to a working snap easier and more fun. Today, I’ll give you a slightly different

Igor Ljubuncic
7 February 2019

Maximilian Ehlers
21 December 2018

Our Kubernetes deployment pipeline

Design Desktop

A few weeks ago I joined the web and design team here at Canonical, in the Base Squad, which is our backend team. One of the things that we are responsible for is deploying the code to our different staging and production environments. With multiple features being developed simultaneously, bugs being fixed, and some parts

Maximilian Ehlers
21 December 2018

Robin Winslow
12 December 2018

How to manage your Git history: Tips for keeping your commits tidy

Design Desktop

One of the things we’re currently working on in the web and design team is a page about writing Git commit messages for our team practices website (I hope to write more about the practices website itself in the coming days). As part of that discussion, we jotted down some quick tips for managing commit

Robin Winslow
12 December 2018

Kit Randel
9 August 2018

Conference Report: Fullstack 2018 London

Notes Cloud and server

I recently attended Fullstack 2018, “The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things” with my colleagues from the Canonical Web Team in London. Fullstack attempts to cover the full spectrum of the JS ecosystem – frontend, backend, IoT, machine learning and a number of other topics. While I attended a broad range...

Kit Randel
9 August 2018

Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Fresh Snaps from April 2018

Article Desktop

In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives, IDEs for developers and games for the weekend. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following @snapcraftio on Twitter where we share three new

Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Canonical
1 February 2018

Externally exposing a LXD-based Kubernetes service

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Rye Terrell’s blog So you’ve conjured up a Kubernetes cluster on top of LXD on your dev box. Cool. You’ve created a deployment, you’ve got a service directing traffic to it, and you can query it from your box. Sweet. Time to demo this to your boss! “Hey boss,”

Canonical
1 February 2018

Barry McGee
2 February 2016

Trimming the fat from the Ubuntu online tour

Featured Ubuntu

Maybe, like me, you seen more of the inside of your gym in January than you had for the six months previous. New year, new diet, new me.. or something like that. A big creeping problem in recent years is that websites have been on an all out binge, and not just over the winter holidays

Barry McGee
2 February 2016

Femma
10 December 2015

Helsinki SDK sprint

User Experience Ubuntu

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part of Ubuntu and provides an array of components and flexibility needed to create applications across staged and windowed form

Femma
10 December 2015

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Keynotes from my first PyCon – friendly and inspiring

Featured Ubuntu

Last weekend I went to my first Pycon, my second conference in a fortnight. The conference runs from Friday to Monday, with 3 days of talks followed by one day of “sprints”, which is basically a hack day. PyCon has a code of conduct to discourage any form of othering: Happily, PyCon UK is a

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Python learnings from PyCon

Featured Ubuntu

The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract. Here I’m going to talk about the other talks I saw, which were generally more technical or at least had more to do with Python. Summary The talks I saw covered a whole range of

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Ubuntu Online Tour

Development Cloud and server

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out Ubuntu for the first time and seeing if they like it. As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Canonical
22 August 2011

History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)

Design Ubuntu

The BBC just put up a five-minute audio slideshow “The story of how we got our alphabets” about the development of western writing, starting in 3,000 BC in Mesopotamia with various attempts at proto-writing systems and then Cuneiform script. It shows the history of the alphabet, stemming from the Phoenician alphabet and...

Canonical
22 August 2011

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