Category: Technical

At the end of October 2015 we had our second hackathon for Information Services. In an attempt to target a wider audience and get more … Read more

PhantomCSS is a great tool for quickly and easily setting up some visual regression testing, preferably on your site's pattern library (you do have a … Read more

I built a pattern library for a project I’m working on which would help developers (and me) build web pages in a consistent way, and … Read more

The web dev team has been writing automated browser tests for our web applications for a while now. This post gives a basic overview of … 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

In his last post, Matt told us about his time management setup using Things and the Pomodoro technique. This featured things like “GUIs” and “iPads”. … Read more

Using Capybara with Capybara-Webkit and Cucumber allows behaviour driven testing that runs a browser proper in a similar manner to Selenium but headlessly. Most people using … 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