Web engineering and design team

Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team

The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Platform sprint in Portland

by Canonical on 2 February 2010

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful...

Lucid Paper Jam update!

by Canonical on 26 January 2010

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem:...

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

by Canonical on 24 January 2010

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy...

Draggy Fists

by Canonical on 12 January 2010

It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to...

Empathy Paper Jam

by Canonical on 11 January 2010

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in...

Excuse me!?

by Canonical on 9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

A bug in two parts

by Canonical on 8 December 2009

I finally got round to going through the photos on my camera this morning – I still haven’t got round to putting my holiday (August holiday!) photos on Flickr...

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

by Canonical on 24 November 2009

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we...

Fresh off the press

by Canonical on 24 November 2009

I just got my copy of “The Book of Inkscape” by Dmitry Kirsanov. It has excellent information for inkscape users both new and old 😉

The most beautiful blog post ever*

by Canonical on 26 October 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen,I would like to share with you the short-list for the Ubuntu Karmic Koala Wallpaper’s Competition.We had so many fantastic entries and so...

On the Ubuntu 9.10 default wallpaper

by Canonical on 29 September 2009

The first thing I did after installing Ubuntu 9.04 was to head straight for the Appearance settings to choose a desktop picture. Here’s what I was...

So.. I got this new job..

by Canonical on 29 September 2009

I always planned to make my millions and then spend them philanthropically, on a technological venture. Nanotech, bioengineering or artificial intelligence –...