Category Archives: Work

UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Michael Hall

It’s official, UDS 13.05 is coming up next month, marking our second online Ubuntu Developer Summit, and coming only two months after the last one. While going virtual was part of our transition to make Ubuntu’s development more open and … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon: Unity 7

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Michael Hall

I’m happy to announce that today I filed for a Feature Freeze Exception to get the latest Unity stack into Ubuntu Raring.  It’s a lot of new code, but it should all be available in a PPA in the next … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu SDK Apps are coming

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Michael Hall

The Ubuntu SDK preview is just over 2 months old, but we’ve already seen a lot of development starting with it.  Read below for a high-level look at some of the apps that are currently being written.

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Will you have Ubuntu Touch at your Jam?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Michael Hall

Global Jam This weekend, March 1st – March 3rd, the Ubuntu Community is holding our twice-annual Global Jam. So far this cycle we have announced and released the Ubuntu Touch shell for phones and tablets, and what better place to … Continue reading →

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Adding privacy setting support to your Unity Lens

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Michael Hall

During this latest round of arguing over the inclusion of Amazon search results in the Unity Dash, Alan Bell pointed out the fact that while the default scopes shipped in Ubuntu were made to check the new privacy settings, we … Continue reading →

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A sneak peek inside Ubuntu Skunkworks

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Michael Hall

The Ubuntu Skunkworks program is now officially underway, we have some projects already staffed and running, and others where I am gathering final details about the work that needs to be done.  Today I decided to look at who has … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu App Developers community on Google Plus

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Michael Hall

Now that Google+ has added a Communities feature, and seeing as how Jorge Castro has already created one for the wider Ubuntu community, I went ahead and created one specifically for our application developers.  If you are an existing app … Continue reading →

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Quickly: Rebooted

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Michael Hall

Shortly after the Ubuntu App Showdown earlier this year, Didier Roche and Michael Terry kicked off a series of discussions about a ground-up re-write of Quickly.  Not only would this fix many of the complications app developers experienced during the … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Skunk Works

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Michael Hall

A few weeks ago, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a new project initiative dubbed “skunk works”, that would bring talented and trusted members of the Ubuntu community into what were previously Canonical-only development teams working on some of the most … Continue reading →

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Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Michael Hall

When the Unity developers introduced Dash Previews in Unity 6, I knew it was something I wanted to add to Singlet.  I didn’t have time to get the feature added in time to get it into Quantal’s Universe archive, but … Continue reading →

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