Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2014
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Automating testing for 主播大秀 iPlayer mobile part one: 3 Amigos
In this three part series of blog posts I will be exploring how the 主播大秀 iPlayer Mobile team has integrated automated user interface (UI) integration testing into their development practice.
主播大秀 Sport App on Chromecast
After the success of the Chromecast integration in 主播大秀 iPlayer, we had a opportunity to take all of the multi-stream content from the 主播大秀 Sport website and provide our users with a new way of viewing this summer鈥檚 live sporting events on the big screen
主播大秀 Announces new Digital Framework suppliers
I am pleased to announce that we have now awarded framework agreements to a number of successful digital suppliers.
Connected Studio: Coding for Teenagers Build Studio
Another had a young woman programmer, fingertips seemingly glued to her device, churning out code as if she was typing a well-rehearsed story.
主播大秀 Online outage on Saturday 19th July 2014
A serious incident impacted bbc.co.uk and we had to use our emergency homepage for prolonged periods of time. Here鈥檚 what happened.
Testing 主播大秀 iPlayer Mobile App
We have to take a pragmatic stance when triaging defects. Some may well be prioritised for fixing in the current or forthcoming release (which is great news) whilst others may not be deemed important enough for us to expend effort fixing (which is not so great).
主播大秀 Future Media "Get In!" diversity open day
This event highlighted opportunities at 主播大秀 Future Media for top female tech talent and encouraged honest discussions around bridging the gender gap in technology.
Video Factory: one year on
The same elastic computing and cloud storage meant we could also remove all limits in content production for 主播大秀聽iPlayer. We have doubled the total number of hours of video available and have increased the number of HD hours by almost 700%
主播大秀 iWonder: why did we start with a question?
This is a blog post about the development of the recently launched 主播大秀 iWonder brand. It鈥檚 about how we took user centred designs, a strong editorial proposition and product leadership and created a brand.
Optimising for Touch on the Responsive Web
While positioned in the GEL [http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel] team, I was involved in producing design guidelines to inform our web-based products across the 主播大秀. One such guideline gives recommendations on how to optimise our products for touch input (in simple terms, to make things 鈥榯ouch-friendly鈥�).