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Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 January 2018
Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...
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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit
by Sergio Schvezov on 26 January 2018
The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major...
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Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018
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Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 19 December 2017
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JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives
by Sarah Dickinson on 19 December 2017
Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools...
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Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring
by Sarah Dickinson on 5 December 2017
In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows,...
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Announcing snapcraft 2.35
by Sergio Schvezov on 22 November 2017
The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the...
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Orchestrating architectural installations and live shows with snaps
by Sarah Dickinson on 15 November 2017
Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions BV, provides multi-platform software and solid-state hardware lighting control technology for namely the architectural,...
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Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft
by Sarah Dickinson on 8 November 2017
.NET Core, run by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft, is a free, cross-platform platform that supports building and running the next generation of web...
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Using snaps to advance robotics development
by Sarah Dickinson on 30 October 2017
Robotics development has seen great expansion in recent years. Some roboticists strongly believe that this expansion is not only due to the rise of...
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elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro
by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017
elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...