Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2014
Posts (13)
College of Technology round up: Lean analytics, Nitro, Cloud and Storytime
Over the last few weeks we’ve published a variety of material on the College of Technology website with a software engineering theme.
Designing the CBeebies Storytime App
The app importantly had to incorporate everything which Children love about CBeebies, the humour, surprise, and excitement. We also needed to make sure it was scalable for an audience who are driven by image led navigation, and reliant on large hit states.
Round up: Continuous delivery, Genome and The Doctor
One thing we didn’t want to do is continuously deliver low quality code…
How we built "The Doctor and the Dalek" CBBC game
Previous work at the BBC had already determined a 2D platform game would form the base genre for us to build on … but the demands of the curriculum required our examples of problem solving to be based in the real world, which is 3D.
Weather: redirecting mobile users to responsive
It's a still work-in-progress, but is the next step in our plans to move to a fully responsive web solution on mobile, tablet and desktop.
Genome: behind the scenes
The web site is hosted on Linux servers. We have database servers running MySQL and Sphinx Search and application servers which run Apache and a web application written in Perl using Dancer and Template Toolkit. In front of the application servers a layer of Varnish application cache servers hel...
Lean-UX and the big picture: a case study
Over the last six months, I have been working on some internal systems that the BBC uses for curating and editing some of its content online. Based on this experience, I have realised that a Lean UX approach for a complex media organisation like the BBC can be extremely beneficial.
BBC iPlayer Radio iOS app: your feedback
Why did we move iPad radio users from an app optimised for the device to a phone based app?
Playlister one year on and BBC Music online
Playlister has already established itself as one of the main reasons that users register with BBC iD (http://www.bbc.co.uk/id/info ), as people are seeing real benefit to being signed-in.
30 Days catchup – what does this mean for radio?
We are in the middle of building out new underlying technology ("Audio Factory") for making our radio content available online. This will replace some systems that have been around for over a decade and are getting too unreliable and expensive to maintain.
