So this is the week of the Ubuntu Online Summit, and many of the sessions are discussing Snappy. As you may know, Snappy is currently pretty geared toward embedded, headless devices. However, it is the successor to Click, and eventually the phones will be based upon it. To drive that effort forward, a few colleagues and I had a session (update: I used to link to the video here, but the Summit server is no more) where we discussed the path forward for supporting snaps on other devices, specifically the phone and the desktop....

I’m pleased to announce that Canonical has made the shortlist in several categories for the V3 Technology Awards! Now it’s all in your hands: Go and Vote for Canonical! Note that voting closes at 5pm on Friday, October 9th. The categories in which we made the shortlist are: Best cloud computing provider We made this as an overall company: Canonical Best business software provider We also made this as an overall company: Canonical Best Internet of Things product Made this as Canonical Snappy Ubuntu Core Thank you for your support!...

I’ve previously written about Snappy and Unity 8’s Snappy Scope, back when I was first getting started on it. Since then, both the scope and Ubuntu Core itself have come a long way, so I thought it was time for an update and a quick demo. When I was working on Snappy back when I wrote the other post I was running Ubuntu Core virtually, since I was using my embedded devices for other tasks....

I think we can all agree that testing one’s Rails project is a good thing. I think we can also agree that those tests should be run on a regular basis (i.e. after every change). I think it’s a logical conclusion then that having a continuous integration environment setup for one’s project would be considered ideal. This is really pretty easy for open-source projects, since a number of companies provide free support for them....

When developing a new Ruby on Rails project, one doesn’t always start from scratch. Often one first searches for an open-source project that will at least get one part of the way there. For example, one might want to do something as simple a create a website with a blog as well as image galleries. The first step in this journey might be to find some open-source blog software for Rails, e....