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Anthony Dillon

Anthony Dillon

72 posts

Lead Web Developer

Anthony Dillon is a Lead Web Developer in the web and design team. The team is responsible for all websites and tooling across Canonical. Anthony loves to create beautiful things and push the boundaries of the web.

Anthony Dillon
17 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The JavaScript used on ubuntu.com is very light. We limit its use to small functional elements of the web style guide, which act to enhance the user experience but are never required to deliver the content the user is there to consume. At Canonical we ...

Anthony Dillon
13 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: ensuring performance (13)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Performance has always been one of the top priorities when it came to building the responsive ubuntu.com. We started with a list of performance snags and worked to improve each one as much as possible in the time we had. Here is a quick run ...

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 ...

Anthony Dillon
30 October 2013

Cloud sprint: what I’ve learned about testing and code reviews

Ubuntu Featured

I was recently asked to attend a cloud sprint in San Francisco as a front-end developer for the new Juju GUI product. I had the pleasure of finally meeting the guys that I have collaboratively worked with and ultimately been helped by on the project. Here is a collection of things I learnt during my ...

Anthony Dillon
24 August 2012

Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript

Ubuntu Development

I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This post is about what I did and how to get some sample code if you want to use or extend it for yourself. The XML The ...

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Ubuntu Online Tour

Cloud and server Development

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out Ubuntu for the first time and seeing if they like it. As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool ...

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