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Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available

Article Cloud and server

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the yaml package for Go was first drafted almost exactly a year ago, by the end of March last year (2018). If this package doesn’t sound familiar, it’s

Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

Canonical
4 April 2019

Visual Studio Code launches as a snap

Article Canonical announcements

4th  April 2019, London, UK – As of today, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is available for Linux as a snap, providing seamless auto-updates for its users. Visual Studio Code, a free, lightweight code editor, has redefined editors for building modern web and cloud applications, with built-in support for debugging, task...

Canonical
4 April 2019

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Remote collaborative design

Article People and culture

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working in the technology industry 15 years ago, is how common and accessible working from home has become. There are many advances that contributed to its adoption, but...

Juan Real
4 April 2019

Canonical
2 April 2019

AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities to your IoT device. IoT and embedded developers can now easily install and get started with IoT Greengrass...

Canonical
2 April 2019

Peter Mahnke
29 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2019

Design Cloud and server

This was a busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical. Many of the things we worked on will be completed in the next iteration, but here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Snapcraft.io New JetBrains publisher page We have now a link to the JetBrains collection of snaps

Peter Mahnke
29 March 2019

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 March 2019

MicroK8s in the Wild

Article Cloud and server

Canonical released MicroK8s in December 2018, and as its popularity has grown, some interesting projects using this micro Kubernetes distribution have surfaced. To begin with a little background, Kubernetes is an open source container orchestrator that assists with deploying, upgrading and provisioning applications....

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 March 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 March 2019

Snap startup time improvements

Article Desktop

Several months ago, we shared an article titled I have a need, a need for snap that detailed the application performance results of snaps compared to their classic repo counterparts. We tested GIMP and VLC on both Ubuntu and Fedora, with some rather interesting findings. The one aspect of the application usage sequence we did

Igor Ljubuncic
28 March 2019

Canonical
25 March 2019

Kubernetes 1.14 now available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

March 25, 2019 Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.14 using kubeadm deployments, its Charmed Kubernetes, and MicroK8s, its popular single-node deployment of Kubernetes. MicroK8s provides Kubernetes 1.14 on any Linux desktop, server or VM – over 40 Linux distros. Mac and Windows are supported...

Canonical
25 March 2019

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Article Cloud and server

Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
21 March 2019

Magic Wormhole – Send files with ease

Article Desktop

Sharing is caring. Alexander the Great File transfer is the bread and butter of information exchange in the digital world. Documents, photos, videos, we share them with our colleagues and friends. The only problem is, the Internet is a global village with many languages – and we’re talking about software, not humans. If...

Igor Ljubuncic
21 March 2019

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

Design Cloud and server

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers This iteration we designed and built four takeovers for our home pages including: The German version of compliance webinar The German version of AI/ML webinar A

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Alex Hung
20 March 2019

Debug ACPI DSDT and SSDT with ACPICA Utilities

Article Desktop

Using acpidbg on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 can be quite handy; however, the Linux kernel with ACPI_DEBUGGER is not always available, such as on Ubuntu for ARM. In such cases, acpica also provides a set of utilities, named acpica-tools, for ACPI debugging. Installation Installing acpica-tools is as easy as the following command:...

Alex Hung
20 March 2019

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

The path to Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

At Canonical, helping customers overcome their challenges is what we do every day. In the IoT world, a common challenge we encounter is customers who are interested in transitioning to Ubuntu Core and the snapcraft.io ecosystem, but are unsure how to begin. This post covers the recommended approach. In most cases, it’s...

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

Lyubomir Popov
15 March 2019

Vertical rhythm and spacing in Vanilla Framework 2.0

Article Cloud and server

Overview of the typographic improvements to our CSS framework introduced over the past 12 months.

Lyubomir Popov
15 March 2019

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