Something we’re currently investigating for blogs.kent is the (relatively) new bbPress plugin to enable simple collaborative forums. In case you don’t already know, bbPress was … Read more
IT Development teams meet the monster bike
We went for a team-building ride on a monster seven seater bicycle around the University of Kent Campus today with Dr. Bike. Starting out at … Read more
We have been nominated for a UK Agile Award
The Web Development and Learning & Research Development teams at the University of Kent have been Nominated in the Best use of Agile in the … Read more
Using Laravel: first impressions of a PHP framework
Our team recently faced a typical (PHP) developer problem: build a simple app in a few days that’s good-looking and feature-rich enough to convince your … Read more
Welcome to Justice Addison, our new Web Developer
We would like to welcome Justice Addison to the Web Development team. Justice will be moving from his role as Senior Web Developer (Part Time) … Read more
Welcome to Alex Andrews, our newest Web Developer
We would like to welcome Alex Andrews to the Web Development team. Alex joins the team on Monday 5th March 2012. Alex brings a range … Read more
Implementing scrum in a multi-product environment
One of the challenges we have faced since the start of our journey of implementing scrum, is how to be true to the scrum process … Read more
Our plans for www.kent.ac.uk/maps
The Web Team is currently working with Communications and Marketing on a new maps web site for the University and we’ld thought we’ld share some … Read more
WordPress 3.3 and blogs.kent
WordPress 3.3 is almost here! Currently at Beta 4, a release candidate is apparently very close. We’ll hopefully be upgrading blogs.kent from 3.2.1 to 3.3 … Read more
Overview of Sencha Touch and the Kent Mobile App
It took a while, but we got there… The University of Kent finally has a mobile web app! You can access it on an iOS, Android, … Read more