Helsinki SDK sprint
Femma,
We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was…
Topic: Development
There are 35 posts filed under the topic 'Development'.
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Vanilla: theme wrapping
Graham Bancroft,
If you’ve been following our Vanilla framework series of blog posts you’ll be aware of why we needed this new…
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Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day
Steph Wilson,
Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu…
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Using Vanilla with Jekyll
Anthony Dillon,
We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to…
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Keynotes from my first PyCon – friendly and inspiring
Robin Winslow,
Last weekend I went to my first Pycon, my second conference in a fortnight. The conference runs from Friday to…
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Python learnings from PyCon
Robin Winslow,
The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract.…
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Prepare for when Ubuntu freezes
Robin Winslow,
I routinely have at least 20 tabs open in Chrome, 10 files open in Atom (my editor of choice) and…
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Publishing Vanilla
Tristram Oaten,
We’ve got a new CSS framework at Canonical, named Vanilla. My colleague Ant has a great write-up introducing Vanilla. Essentially it’s…
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Django behind a proxy: Fixing absolute URLs
Robin Winslow,
I recently tried to setup OpenID for one of our sites to support authentication with login.ubuntu.com, and it took me…
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Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library
Robin Winslow,
We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the…
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Converting old guidelines to vanilla
Richard McCartney,
How the previous guidelines worked Guidelines essentially is a framework built by the Canonical web design team. The whole framework…
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Vanilla: Why we built a framework
Peter Mahnke,
Ubuntu is a big Open Source project and there are a lot of websites in our community. The web team…
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Introducing Vanilla
Anthony Dillon,
Why we needed a new framework Some time ago the web team at Canonical developed a CSS framework the we…
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The Grid System in detail
Pierre Bertet,
Following the article “To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units”, here is a technical description of the…
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To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units
Benjamin Keyser,
In the converged world of Unity-8, applications will work on small mobile screens, tablets and desktop monitors (with a mouse and keyboard attached) as…
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A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)
Robin Winslow,
Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not…
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Ubuntu Music App behind the scenes
Jouni Helminen,
Ubuntu community devs Andrew Hayzen and Victor Thompson chat with lead designer Jouni Helminen. Andrew and Victor have been working…
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Auto-syncing revision history from Github to Launchpad
Robin Winslow,
In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning…
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Converting projects between Git and Bazaar
Robin Winslow,
Here in the design team we use both Bazaar and Git to keep track our projects’ hostory. We quite often…
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Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages
Robin Winslow,
On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the…
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