Author: Matthew Bull

This was a 3-day team hack event, with a couple of days added on for user interviews. We won’t be building on the code we … Read more

Web developers live in a bubble. In this bubble people know and care what a browser is. There’s a rather well-known google video demonstrating just … Read more

The webdev team spent a lot of time over the summer building a timetable app for the University of Kent Student Guide. We could’ve built … Read more

The webdev team recently welcomed Jonathan Thirlwell as our UX developer. This role is an entirely new one for our team, and for web development … Read more

Here’s some stuff I found, used, played with over the last week or so. All the below can of course be found on GitHub too. … Read more

Google Analytics is an immensely powerful tool for helping you work out how to architect your website structure and target particular content at a particular … Read more

We’ve been using Laravel for almost a year now in the Kent Uni webdev team on projects such as our course data tool. We’ve found it … Read more

Today I’m writing about how I’m trying to keep control of all the work stuff I have to do with a mix of the Things … Read more

Composer is a great way of installing tools into your app without the old PEAR hassle of installing something on your own laptop, and then … Read more

The rise of mobile The University of Kent, like many UK universities, now has a dedicated student-focussed mobile app. It’s great, and early indications are … Read more