Archive for the ‘canonical’ Category

Ever since I got my copy of Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites I’ve became obsessed with speed. During my day job I’m constantly looking for things that can be improved to make the user experience smoother, specially for first-time visitors. I’m fairly happy with what we’ve achieved in the last year, though there are [...]


This morning I woke up with this song in my head. It reminds me quite a bit of the Rolling Stones, and it’s very appropriate for the mood I’m in today. I’m sitting here at Canonical’s office in Montreal, where we are having another Landscape sprint. There’s a couple things that make this sprint special, [...]


Just a quick post to get me started at blogging again. Over the last year (wow, time flies by!) I’ve been working at Canonical, as part of the Landscape team. This is a very diverse team with lots of different skills, and somehow I found myself naturally gravitating towards working more closely on frontend-related issues, [...]


This is a really short announcement, since it’s almost 4am here in Brazil and I should actually be sleeping, instead of building installers for Plone (ha!). But hey, this is exciting enough to keep some people awake all night. Today, Canonical announces the availability of Landscape Dedicated Server! So what is it? One of the [...]


Over the past few months, friends and family have been very curious about how my new job is going, and it’s been hard to stop for a moment and go into detail about it. I’ve been simply nodding and saying “It’s fine”. This is an attempt at summarizing all the activity that happened in the [...]


No, this is not a blog post about the kind of landscape you’re accustomed to, though it might trigger a few ‘I want to be a Landscape Architect’ thoughts from a person or two. The news this time is that I’m going through a landscape change myself, and to me it’s still a bit scary [...]



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