{"id":38,"date":"2011-07-05T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:30:01","slug":"whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2011\/07\/05\/whats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had a blog post for a bit, so I thought that I would take this opportunity to let you know some of the things that the Web Development team are working on at the moment. This is just some of the things that are going on this week.<\/p>\n<h2>Employability points<\/h2>\n<p>The University is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/pointing-the-way-to-student-employability-at-kent\/2011\">actively engaged<\/a> in making its students more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/about\/plan\/studentexperience\/employability\/\">employable<\/a> as they graduate. The team are working on a project to integrate the universities employability points scheme (a scheme where students get points for attending workshops etc) into our <a title=\"myFolio@Kent\" href=\"https:\/\/myfolio.kent.ac.uk\/myfolio\/\">Personal Development Portfolio<\/a> system <a title=\"Maraha\" href=\"http:\/\/mahara.org\/\">Marhara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Clearing<\/h2>\n<p>Its that time of year again, and as the University gears up for the flurry of activity that goes on at result time, the team will be providing support for the <a title=\"Clearing 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/clearing\">Clearing <\/a>application system.<\/p>\n<h2>New web farm<\/h2>\n<p>We are about to start the process of migrating our content off of a single webserver and onto a farm of load-balanced shiny servers. There are a few things which the team are having to do in preparation of this, the main one being the deployment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/web\/services\/university-template\/index.html\">Pantheon templating engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to improve the deployment process such that we can deploy, with ease and confidence, more often. This will mean that the publishers at the Uni will get the latest and greatest features even quicker than at the moment.<\/p>\n<h2>Kent on your mobile<\/h2>\n<p>An exciting time, we are set to start a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sprint_(scrum)\">sprint <\/a>on the first round of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/mobile\/\">Kent on your mobile<\/a>. Currently there is an alpha running which shows <a title=\"Free pc's on the Canterbury campus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/itservices\/pcs\/free.html\">PC availability<\/a> on the <a title=\"University of Kent Canterbury campus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/locations\/canterbury\/index.html\">Canterbury campus<\/a>, some of the enhancements we hope to bring are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>geo-location on PC availability<\/li>\n<li>campus map<\/li>\n<li>news feeds<\/li>\n<li>configuration information for various devices\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is merely a snapshot of what we are hoping to acheive.\u00a0 There will be more posted on here as we progress.<\/p>\n<h2>Day to day<\/h2>\n<p>Along with these projects the team also carries out updates to our core web assets on a regular basis, such as wordpress, drupal, uPortal, as well as providing support for when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had a blog post for a bit, so I thought that I would take this opportunity to let you know some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2011\/07\/05\/whats-going-on\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8952,872,843,762,8947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}