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Digital Bristol Week
Hi I'm Mark Jacobs, programme manager for the BBC Academy. I run, with a small team of colleagues, an innovative training project called Fusion. Through labs, workshops and conferences we support the development of critical new skills that support the merger of creativity and new...
Testing the Symfony2 app with MinkBundle, PhantomJS and PHPUnit
Symfony2 has solid documentation around testing tools and it covers both unit and functional testing aspects. However, Symfony2 documentation explains WebTestCase library for functional testing which uses BrowserKit under the hood.
BBC Blue Room at IFA 2019
Colin Warhurst and James Hand report on their visit to the technology and trade show IFA in Berlin.
Digital distribution: Analytics with logs and heartbeats
Delivering media content to our audiences across the internet is a complex task involving many technologies and many organisations. So when a problem arises it's important for us to be able to narrow down the problem efficiently so that it can be fixed as quickly as possible.
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.
How metadata will drive content discovery for the BBC online
How metadata will be at the heart a new content discovery strategy.
World Cup 2014: live event page
With World Cup matches being in evening here, we expect that most people will be using tablet and mobile devices, either as a second screen or for when they can’t be in front of their TV...
An AI experiment at an AI conference
How new AI production techniques are being road tested at a BBC conference.
‘Music Events’: A Guided Tour
Our ambition for 'Music Events’ v6 is to deliver the best online coverage of live music in the world. Codenamed ‘Eavis’ after Glastonbury’s inimitable founder, our platform serves a broad portfolio.
BBC UX&D on creating a GEL foundation for everyone
The full launch of our new GEL website this month signifies the beginning of something special. The new website is part of an ambition to provide a way to create consistently amazing online BBC products and experiences that are accessible to all, no matter who they are or the technology they use.
Xenon Embedded Media Player
Xenon is a brand new embedded media player that was developed specifically for AS2 embedded devices such as Virgin’s TiVo
The lessons learnt creating a design system for BBC Online
Dave Morris and Josh Tumath explain the process for creating a new design system for the BBC's websites
Building Connected TV Apps
I'm Roux Joubert, Head of the TV & Mobile Platforms team based in the BBC's new offices in MediaCityUK, Salford. I am privileged to lead an amazing team responsible for building some cutting edge and award winning products, who brought you the BBC iPlayer on TV and mobile, as well as News, Spo...
BBC Taster: using promotions to test products
Using promos to test a product in this way gives us extra insight, and an ability to test against new audiences
