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Blog posts tagged
"developers"


Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

Desktop Article

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into the open source wo ...


Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

Desktop Article

Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and ...


Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1

Desktop Article

The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People from Microsoft, Skype, Slack, Electron and CircleCI joined the snap advocacy and Snapcraft teams to crank through their tasks. Snapcraft community superstar Dan Llwellyn started his ...


Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

Desktop Article

Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200 global media partners. It’s the only solution that seamlessly combines your personal collection of TV shows, movies, music, photos, and videos alongside live and recorded TV. With a ...


Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

Canonical announcements News

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate eff ...


Canonical
20 December 2017

Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users

Canonical announcements News

Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December 20th, 2017 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is happy to announce that Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service, is now available as a snap, the universal Linux app ...


Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

Desktop Article

Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around half of their portfo ...


Canonical
14 December 2017

UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain

Cloud and server Article

The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo Instituto was built in 1797 as a centre for scientific and technical education. Currently, it is a public space maintained and managed by the City Council and it has ...


Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

Desktop Article

Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation. ...


Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

Desktop Article

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped development. Mailspring has ...


Sergio Schvezov
22 November 2017

Announcing snapcraft 2.35

Desktop Article

The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the snapcraft core team, and we want to give a shout out to those folks. A team thank you to: Mark Lee Michael Vogt James Beedy Aleix Pol Jeff Dickey Nathan Haines Chris ...


Canonical
20 November 2017

Introducing the UP² Grove IoT development kit with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

As computing at the edge grows, so does the need to connect a flurry of IoT devices directly into a device that can do advanced analytics and processing. The whole journey from prototype to production is often bumpy, having to switch from a tangle of wires and development boards to production hardware: portability issues, lack ...