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Announcing the Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Michael Hall

I’ve blogged three times now, here, here and here, highlighting some of the apps being written with the Ubuntu SDK.  Well after covering 44 of them, and more already popping up since yesterday’s article, we’ve decided that we need to … Continue reading →

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Another Ubuntu SDK Apps roundup

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Michael Hall

The excitement around the Ubuntu SDK and application development is still going strong, both on the Ubuntu Touch Core Apps side and with independent developers. So strong, in fact, that it’s time for another round of updates and spotlights on … Continue reading →

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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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Core Apps: Road to October

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Michael Hall

Shortly after announcing the Ubuntu Phone, we made an ambitious and frankly unprecedented decision to make the development of the phone’s core apps a community initiative.  We weren’t just open sourcing the apps being developed by Canonical (though we did … Continue reading →

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More Ubuntu SDK Apps

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Michael Hall

If you missed it, I posted an earlier round of SDK apps a couple weeks ago.  Well the pace of new app development didn’t slow down, so here I am again with another round of apps being written with what … 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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Quickly: Reborn

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Michael Hall

UPDATE: A command porting walk-through has beed added to the documentation. Back around UDS time, I began work on a reboot of Quickly, Ubuntu’s application development tool.  After two months and just short of 4000 lines of code written, I’m … 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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