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Canonical
22 April 2010

Future of eBooks?

Design Ubuntu

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.

Canonical
22 April 2010

Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft

Server Ubuntu

Earlier this year, MuleSoft approached us with the desire to partner and offer to work with Canonical to improve our default java container, Tomcat, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server. The idea was to make Tomcat on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS easier to download, install, and configure on Ubuntu than JBOSS is on RHEL. The Ubuntu Server

Canonical
22 April 2010

It’s good to talk

Design Ubuntu

Only a few posts in and our design blog is teeming with lively debate! Don’t forget that you can comment on these posts but if you feel an idea warrants a more open or broad conversation bring them over to the Ayatana mailing list. You can get involved in Ayatana by heading over to its

Canonical
22 April 2010

CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

Research Ubuntu

Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novices understand and correct such errors. This paper introduces HelpMeOut, a social recommender system that aids the debugging of error...

Canonical
22 April 2010

Canonical
21 April 2010

Ubuntu wallpapers

Design Ubuntu

In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from the Soft

Canonical
21 April 2010

Canonical and Dell deliver Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition

News Desktop

Canonical, Dell and Intel Team up to deliver Moblin Ubuntu Remix Developer Edition on Inspiron Mini 10v Canonical and Dell have collaborated to bring the latest developer edition of the Moblin™ v2 user experience to the developer market. Called ‘Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition’ and optimized for the Intel® Atom™...

Canonical
21 April 2010

What makes a good design critic?

Design Ubuntu

While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) session perhaps, something to turn into a blog post, food for thought.The session at CHI included a food critic, a

Canonical
21 April 2010

Canonical
15 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 15th April 2010

Design Ubuntu

Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.Last cycle’s winners were this cycles judges and everyone has delivered.Ladies and gentlemen I give you the results of the wallpaper competition!Congratulations to the winners and huge thanks to the...

Canonical
15 April 2010

Canonical
14 April 2010

My image of the day

Notes Ubuntu

An example of Gemma Correll’s work.

Canonical
14 April 2010

Canonical
7 April 2010

The process of certainty. And mojitos.

Design Ubuntu

You know that feeling when you know someone very well and you buy them a present? You know they will love it and you are excited at the very thought of their delight? Part of you is a little scared though. A few butterflies in the stomach. What if I have misread? What if they

Canonical
7 April 2010

Canonical
3 April 2010

The Digital Economy Bill: Bananas!

Design Ubuntu

Over at Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami has written a crystal clear article on why we should be concerned about the content and treatment of the Digital Economy Bill.Wherever you live, whatever your interests I urge you to read it.If you live in the UK, whatever your position I urge you to write to your

Canonical
3 April 2010

Canonical
24 March 2010

Reasons to celebrate: 24th March 2010

Design Ubuntu

Today is Ada Lovelace day.Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical Engine, a general-purpose machine that...

Canonical
24 March 2010

Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 released

Server Ubuntu

We are ready to release the report on the server survey, the information for which was gathered at the tail end of 2009 by the server community in collaboration with Canonical. The survey contained a vast array of questions, many of which were general and many others user-prompted depending on previous response. We are...

Canonical
24 March 2010

Ada Lovelace and the Turing Test

Design Ubuntu

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the famous Turing test for detecting machine intelligence. Did you know that Turing’s thesis was heavily influenced by Ada Lovelace’s critique of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, wherein she states that “the Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate...

Canonical
24 March 2010