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Leaving Canonical for Endless new possibilities

Posted by: Michael Hall in Archive 7 years, 7 months ago

After a little over 6 years, I am embarking on a new adventure. Today is my last day at Canonical, it’s bitter sweet saying goodbye precisely because it has been such a joy and an honor to be working here with so many amazing, talented and friendly people. But I am leaving by choice, and for an opportunity that makes me as excited as leaving makes me sad.

Machine Learning with Snaps

Posted by: Michael Hall in Archive 7 years, 9 months ago

Late last year Amazon introduce a new EC2 image customized for Machine Learning (ML) workloads. To make things easier for data scientists and researchers, Amazon worked on including a selection of ML libraries into these images so they wouldn’t have to go through the process of downloading and installing them (and often times building them) themselves.

War on Snaps

Posted by: Michael Hall in Archive 7 years, 9 months ago

Java is a well established language for developing web applications, in no small part because of it’s industry standard framework for building them: Servlets and JSP.  Another important part of this standard is the Web Archive, or WAR, file format, which defines how to provide a web application’s executables and how they should be run in a way that is independent of the application server that will be running  them.

Make your world a better place

Posted by: Michael Hall in Archive 8 years, 1 month ago

For much of the past year I have been working on a game. No, not just a game, I’m been working on change. There are 122 million children in the world today who can’t read or write[1]. They will grow up to join the 775 million adults who can’t. Together that’s almost one billion people who are effectively shut off from the information age. How many of them could make the world a better place, given even half a chance?

Desktop app snap in 300KB

Posted by: Michael Hall in Archive 8 years, 2 months ago

KDE Neon developer Harald Sitter was able to package up the KDE calculator, kcalc, in a snap that weighs in at a mere 320KB! How did he do it?

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