Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2015
Posts (15)
Audio Factory: an overview
"If it isn't broken, don't fix it" is generally true, but in this case the previous encoding technology system was broken.
BBC News app: update
The latest update to the News App, pushed to the app stores, includes accessibility improvements to voice over and keyboard accessibility. These are the first improvements as part of an ongoing accessibility review.
CPS Vivo: a new content management system for BBC streams
The principle behind Vivo is to build a lightweight responsive single page web application that is built on the cloud to support three key editorial workflows.
How we built BBC Shuffle
One of BBC R&D's research questions is to ask if it's possible to offer the benefits of personalisation while maintaining privacy.
Curation kit: a mixing-desk for content feeds on the BBC Homepage
We wanted to make a simple, smart way to put the range of BBC content at their fingertips, and help them pick out what they wanted to use.
Audio Factory: BBC Radio 3 HD Sound on Shoutcast
We are still talking to manufacturers and many are confident that they will be able to provide their users with access to all 57 of our HLS AAC streams at 320kb/s within a few weeks or months.
How we built the new BBC Homepage
The new BBC mobile Homepage is a flexible ‘taster menu’ of the BBC's website.
Audio Factory: your comments
I wanted to follow up on the discussion that has been had on this blog recently about Audio Factory and more specifically the impact that it is having on internet connected devices.
How we built BBC Taster
The development team worked to an adapted agile framework called Kanban doing continuous delivery, we used tools such as Jira and Trello, doing live releases pretty much every day.
New BBC Homepage on mobile
After three years though, the designs were beginning to look a bit dated, particularly on mobile. We were also aware that from a technology standpoint, we could improve the Homepage’s resilience and how it handled the saving of your location settings.
