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12 June 2014

Migrating juju to HP Cloud’s Horizon

Phone and tablet Article

HP Cloud retired its old regions this month. If you use juju on HP Cloud and your account was created before this year, you may need to update your juju config and possibly complete your project setup in Horizon. There are two changes you must make to each HP Cloud environment listed in environments.yaml. Set the region option ...


Anthony Dillon
12 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: our Sass architecture (12)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. When working to make the current web style guide responsive, we made some large updates to the core Sass. We decided to update the file and folder structure of our styles. I love reading about other people or organisations Sass architectures, so I thought it ...


Canonical
12 June 2014

Enterprise class Ubuntu management with Canonical Landscape

Cloud and server White paper

In this recently-published white paper, Enterprise Management Associates detail the return on investment that can be expected when managing Ubuntu systems using Landscape. They outline the software’s features before providing hard financial data based on real-world study of the software in use. Download the white paper ...


Canonical
11 June 2014

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Canonical
11 June 2014

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Canonical
11 June 2014

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Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception. Ubuntu.com was already using a carefully refined and tested typographic scale that we have evolved over the years. Early in the project, we had decided that the large screen view ...


Canonical
10 June 2014

Malta Sprint

Ubuntu User Experience

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and ...


Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality

Cloud and server Article

At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can  deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs an IMS in 12 months ...


Canonical
9 June 2014

Cueing up users

Ubuntu Featured

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed settings, controls, and views through the bottom edge, app developers have a powerful tool for crafting more useful and usable experiences. In earlier postings we’ve talked about how t ...


Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches! We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by ...