The University of Kent has long needed a centralised system of creating events and displaying them on the main website. So a major piece of work … Read more
Sublime Text 2: A new IDE
I’ve recently been trying a new IDE and I’ve been so impressed I’ve decided to spread the love. Sublime Text 2 is cross platform (Windows, … Read more
BBC sprint board looks familar
A few days ago the BBC internet blog published a blog post about designing the new BBC homepage. The article itself is worth a read … Read more
Current projects
Web Development Team update – work from 17 September – 11 October 2011 This is a monthly update on the projects that we have been … Read more
XCRI-CAP and KIS
The University has just started a JISC-funded project to help Universities make the most of Course Information. The driver for this project is to allow … Read more
Welcome to Carl Saggs, our new Web Developer
We would like to welcome Carl Saggs to the Web Development team. Carl joins us on 17th October 2011 from the Requirements and Solutions team, … Read more
Working with Behat
Here in the webteam we have been moving towards including an automated test suite to every piece of work that we produce. We have focused … Read more
Week 1 portal stats
Following on from last weeks post about the amount of traffic we see on the Student Portal, I thought I’d provide some stats on the … Read more
Start of term portal stats
Tomorrow is the start of the 2011/2012 academic year, so I thought that I would give you some idea of how busy the student portal … Read more
Pantheon release notes: 2011-08-26
The University web template engine Pantheon has been updated on the preview web server, oil. These will be published onto the live server – castor – on the … Read more