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A faster site for better Google rankings

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 12 May 2021

Google is going to change their ranking algorithm based on the quality of a web page’s experience. We’ve been looking at our our site performance … Read more

“Innovation Splash” Hackday rundown

By Carl Saggs | 03 November 2015

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

CSS testing and pattern libraries

By Matthew Bull | 16 October 2015

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

Building and hosting a pattern library on github

By Matthew Bull | 24 September 2015

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

Automated browser testing with Selenium

By Justice Addison | 11 May 2014

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

UniKent WebDev Links of the Week: jquery nested, enquire, vagrant, emmet, backbone

By Matthew Bull | 07 April 2013

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

The Kent Google Analytics Panel

By Matthew Bull | 07 April 2013

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

Laravel 3: calling bundles from the CLI

By Matthew Bull | 21 January 2013

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

Controlling time with the command line

By Alex Andrews | 20 September 2012

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-Webkit with Cucumber Without Rails or Rack

By Alex Andrews | 02 August 2012

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

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