Category: Bazaar
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Help us organize UbuConLA 2012!
While a lot of you are at UDS, several Latin American LoCos are working hard to organize a local Ubuntu conference. Things are going really well, we’re 4 weeks away, but we’re a little short on funds. Every year the same people who organize it end up having to pay for many things themselves despite…
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Ubuntu, Natty and Unity
I have to confess, after I heard I found out we where shipping Unity in Ubuntu by default I was nervous. I got asked many times what my feelings were, and I think I generally dodged the question. This was a pretty risky move, which we are still a few months away from finding out…
Martin Albisetti
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Why (I think) Ubuntu One exists
One of the questions that took a little while for me to fully understand was a very simple one: why does Ubuntu One exist? Depending on who you ask, you may get a different answer, but here’s my take on it. Above all, to extend the power of Ubuntu as an environment. Ubuntu One already…
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Making usability part of the development process
For the first year and a half in Canonical I worked with the amazing Launchpad team, with the ambitious goal of building a new user interface, introducing AJAX in an established code base and rolling it all out on time. While all of that was overwhelming in itself, what was more important to me was…
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Looking for an awesome new team member
We have very exciting and challenging plans for the future of the new web+mobile Ubuntu One team (more on this soon), and we’re looking for an exceptional web engineer to join us. The summary for this position is: We are looking for an exceptional engineer to work on Ubuntu One’s web infrastructure with a proven…
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Ubuntu One contacts, now with merging!
While we slowly ramp up to release mobile phone contact sync, using my own contacts as test data I realized that once I had merged my phone’s address book and Thunderbird’s address book, I had quite a few contacts duplicated due to them having different names with different information in them. So I had one…
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Why test driven development rocks
All projects in Canonical have a strong focus on testing. From all of them, I think Bazaar ranks the highest on obsesiveness on testing. As a drive-by contributor, it always felt like a very high entry barrier, and deterred me from getting into complicated changes. It was only after I bit the bullet and got…
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Plans for the future of bzr-upload
During UDS Vincent and I made sure we shared a room so we could talk a bit about what we wanted for the future of bzr-upload. To ensure we didn’t loose any of the conversation, he took notes and sent them to me, so now I’m passing them on for those of you interested in…
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Improving Launchpad icons, round 2
Following up on my last post about user testing icons, it has been incredibly successful! We’ve had over 100 responses, and are now going through the data to put together a summary. I will post information on our findings as soon as we finish the work. In the mean time, Charline Poirier, who is in…
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Help Launchpad get better icons
We’re trying to improve the icons we have in Launchpad so they’re more usable across different cultures and types of users, and our first step is to do some user testing on our current icons. The Canonical User Experience team has set up a survey to gather information on how users see our icons, so…
Martin Albisetti
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