Blog posts tagged
"code"

7 posts

Bartek Szopka
10 January 2022

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

Article Ubuntu

We’ve just released Vanilla v3.0 – a new major update to our CSS framework. It includes a few significant updates and improvements around spacing variables, responsive breakpoints, a new expanding search box and various updates to existing components. Important aspects of the release include dropping a noticeable chunk...

Bartek Szopka
10 January 2022

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019

The lifecycle of a component

Design Design

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal and external websites along with the cloud applications JAAS dashboard and MAAS UI. We release updates approximately every 2 weeks, either for bug fixes,...

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

Article Cloud and server

Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to bring you the next release of Vanilla framework: version 2.0, our most stable release to date. Since our last significant release, v1.8.0 back in July last year, we’ve been working hard to bring you new features, improve the framework and make it the most stable version

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

barry-mcgee
26 April 2019

Formatting our code with Prettier

Article Ubuntu

I’ve become a huge advocate of using Prettier to format front-end code. Let me explain why. For many years, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time squinting at my code editor and trying to decide if the curly brackets at the top of my screen align with the curly brackets at the bottom of my

barry-mcgee
26 April 2019

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 September 2018

Leading the Vanilla design system

Design Cloud and server

After a busy year of working on our Vanilla CSS framework, I wanted to reflect upon what I have learned, and share my thoughts on leading the design for a growing design system. How it all began Whilst working as a visual designer across our suite of Cloud and Web products, I became aware of

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 September 2018

Maarten Ectors
16 October 2015

PiGlow API: one small snap for humanity…

Article Internet of Things

Victor Palau created a very nice blog post around the PiGlow. With his permission we are reproducing it here. My first steps into snappifying, I have publish a RestApi for PiGlow (glowapi 0.1.2). I though it might be a good first step and mildly useful for people wanting to set up build notifications, twitter mentions,

Maarten Ectors
16 October 2015

Canonical
24 July 2009

Karmic desktop contest script

Design Ubuntu

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first.

Canonical
24 July 2009