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Blog posts by year and monthApril 2014

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  1. #newsHACK 2: participants and live updates

    Tomorrow morning the 2nd #newsHACK will kick off in Glasgow and Dublin. This News Industry Hack event is a partnership with Global Editors Network, and the event part of their global #EditorsLab programme.

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  2. Linked data: new ontologies website

    bbc.co.uk/ontologies is a human friendly view of the data models in the Linked Data Platform and is meant to give a comprehensive understanding of which ontologies the Ö÷²¥´óÐã uses, why and how.

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  3. Continuous Integration for PHP, JavaScript and Cucumber

    Recently, I was involved in the task of generating CI reports on Hudson. Hudson is our Continuous Integration Server.  We needed to have visibility of unit tests, integration tests and JavaScript tests. This included generating code coverage reports and making them visible to the team. 

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  4. Open Post: April 2014

    An opportunity to make a comment, ask a question or have a conversation about any aspect of the work of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Future Media or Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online.

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  5. Testing: an introduction to Rubocop and Reek

    Our team uses Ruby based Cucumber tests, using Calabash to automate user interactions with the app all tied together by a set of wrapper scripts to maintain a common set of commands across Android and iOS platforms.

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  6. The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online @20: videos

    The second panel session was a wider look at the past, present and future of the web, chaired by technology author and broadcaster Aleks Krotoski. The panellists were Martha Lane Fox, founder of Lastminute.com and chair of Go On UK, John Naughton, technology columnist for the Observer and JP Ran...

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  7. Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer video downloads now available for all recent Android devices

    In response to public demand, instead of our previous policy of comprehensively testing specific devices before enabling downloads, we are now offering video downloads functionality by default to all Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich or above.

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  8. #newsHACK II: info and API videos

    We've published some pre-event videos to help explain Storyline, and some of the APIs and tools that will be available to participants in the competition around "The future of News Curation".

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  9. Push Notifications for Football teams in Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport app

    Android (phones and tablets) and iOS (iPhone and iPad) app users can now sign up to receive alerts for more than 150 teams. As this is the first release we have limited the range of alerts – a decision based on audience research – to the following: kick-off, goals, half-time score and result.

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  10. The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online @20

    Today we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã going online. In April 1994 a new series aired on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two called The Net, looking at all things digital. Accompanying the series was the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s first bulletin board along with the creation of the Networking Club

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