Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2015
Posts (8)
New HTML5 player beta trial for BBC iPlayer
We’ve been regularly evaluating the features offered by the most popular web browsers and we’re now confident we can achieve the playback quality you’d expect from the BBC without using a third-party plugin.
Pitch Perfect: Creating new music visualisation tool Vizii
We came up with the idea of a music visualisation tool, where customised graphics could be ‘programmed’ to react to audio input, creating a personalised music video which you could share. This idea would eventually become Vizii.
Digital distribution: How on demand content reaches audiences
One of the biggest technical challenges that we have to solve as a content provider is delivering video and audio streams to a geographically spread out audience. At peak times, many hundreds of gigabits per second of data have to be transferred across the internet.
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.
Redesigning the BBC Homepage: The process behind the new look bbc.co.uk
An overview of the design process for the new responsive BBC Homepage that launched recently.
Mixital helps youngsters become digital makers
As part of our new mixital platform we’ve given our audiences the tools to get creative with some of the BBC’s biggest brands. It gives them the chance for the first time to create their own content based on the shows they love.
BBC Homepage: Editorial insights into running the new bbc.co.uk
The Homepage editorial team is committed to serving you the very best of the BBC, from the big hits to the hidden gems, every day. We’re now re-focusing our approach to make sure we’re able to continue to help the many users who visit the BBC online to make sense of what’s going on right now.
Your new BBC Home: Introducing the new bbc.co.uk homepage
The BBC Homepage exists to bring that rich variety to visitors of bbc.co.uk. But until recently, it lacked the flexibility to pull all that variety together for our audience. As of today, visitors registering with us can choose from more than 40 new collections - each tailored to their interests.
