Blog posts tagged "Development"
Canonical is announcing today it will be a featured sponsor of WSLConf, the first conference dedicated to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) platform....
Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we...
Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can...
I often need to implement tests for new ACPI tables before they become available on real hardware. Fortunately, FWTS provides a framework to read ACPI tables’...
Recently, we published several blog posts, aimed at helping developers enjoy a smoother, faster, more streamlined experience creating snaps. We discussed the...
Last week, we published Introduction to snapcraft, a tutorial that provided a detailed overview of the snap build process. We touched on the concepts like...
First steps are always hard, especially in technology. Most of the time, you need a primer, just the right dose of knowledge, to get started with a platform....
I’ve become a huge advocate of using Prettier to format front-end code. Let me explain why. For many years, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time squinting...
“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is....
My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded...
Updating the design of the Ubuntu Releases website using Vanilla Framework
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...
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...
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...
I recently attended Fullstack 2018, “The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things” with my colleagues from the Canonical Web Team in London....
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,...