Web engineering and design team
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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.
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CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
by Canonical on 22 April 2010
Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have...
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Farewell to the notification area
by Matthew Paul Thomas on 21 April 2010
Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior....
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Ubuntu wallpapers
by Canonical on 21 April 2010
In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra...
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What makes a good design critic?
by Canonical on 21 April 2010
While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a...
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Reasons to celebrate 15th April 2010
by Canonical on 15 April 2010
Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.Last cycle’s winners were this cycles...
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The process of certainty. And mojitos.
by Canonical on 7 April 2010
You know that feeling when you know someone very well and you buy them a present? You know they will love it and you are excited at the very thought of their...
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The Digital Economy Bill: Bananas!
by Canonical on 3 April 2010
Over at Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami has written a crystal clear article on why we should be concerned about the content and treatment of the Digital...
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Reasons to celebrate: 24th March 2010
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
Today is Ada Lovelace day.Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born...
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Ada Lovelace and the Turing Test
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the famous Turing test for detecting machine intelligence. Did you know that Turing’s thesis...
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It’s Ada Lovelace Day
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
I’ve always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof!...
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Workarounds
by Canonical on 18 March 2010
I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other...