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Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Building an offline page for theguardian.com
Oliver Joseph Ash

How we used service workers to build a custom offline page for theguardian.com.

Computing   HTML5   Internet   Software   Web 2.0   Web browsers  

theguardian.com’s offline page

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Upgrading Elasticsearch: Content API’s dual stack strategy
Luke Taylor, Chris Birchall

Evaluation and explanation of process used to upgrade Elasticsearch with Route53 and a dual stack strategy on the Content API team at the Guardian.

Cloud computing   Computing   Content API   Elasticsearch   Internet   Programming  

Content API lego tower

Monday, 5 January 2015

Delivering Continuous Delivery, continuously
Phil Wills, Simon Hildrew

This extract from the Build Quality In anthology of DevOps and Continuous Delivery experience reports explains how the Guardian adopted Continuous Delivery.

Cloud computing   Computing   DevOps   Internet   Software  

Container ships at Felixstowe, UK.

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Guardian launches music reviews app for Spotify
Piers Jones

You can use the app to discover new music, listen to the latest albums and then share what you find with your friends

Culture   Digital music and audio   Internet   Music   Spotify  

The Guardian's Spotify app

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Guardian Spotify app: FAQ
Piers Jones

Frequently asked questions about the Guardian's Spotify app

Culture   Digital music and audio   Internet   Music   Spotify  

The Guardian's Spotify app

Friday, 11 November 2011

Live blogging research
Anna Walters

MSc student Anna Walters describes her research project into usage of the Guardian's live blogs

Blogging   Internet   Media  

Live blog research on the wall in the Guardian office

Monday, 4 July 2011

Notes on Release 115
Robert Phillips

Buttons, bento boxes and the World Bank ... an overview of the most recent changes to guardian.co.uk

Internet   World Bank  

The World Bank building in Washington

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Developing the new artist pages
Robbie Clutton

The Guardian music site's new artist pages make it so much easier for you to say thank you for the music

Internet   Music  

ABBA

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

So long, IE6, it's the end of testing times
Sally Goble

Sally Goble on the balancing act of testing our website in different browers

Computing   Firefox   Internet   Internet Explorer   Testing  

internet explorer 7 Dean Hachamovitch

Monday, 16 May 2011

Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Jam
Martin Belam

Join us at the Guardian's Kings Place HQ for a day in which we 'hack the future of journalism online'

Internet  

Kings Place architecture

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Notes on Release 111
David Shaw

David Shaw provides an overview of the most recent changes to guardian.co.uk

Computing   Internet  

Guardian Royal Wedding coverage

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Cennydd Bowles predicts a rocky road ahead for UX at the Denver IA Summit
Martin Belam

Three main themes emerged at the recent IA Summit in Denver: measuring the value of our work, getting our work done faster, and learning from other related disciplines. However, it was Cennydd Bowles' closing plenary that made the longest lasting impression - predicting troubled times ahead for the IA and UX fields

Computing   Internet   Programming  

Post-it notes in use at the Information Architecture summit in Denver

Friday, 8 April 2011

Notes on Release 110
Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips provides an overview of some of the most recent changes to guardian.co.uk

Computing   Internet   Programming  

Royal wedding

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Hacks and Hackers: ScraperWiki day
Martyn Inglis

Martyn Inglis reports from a journalism-and-tech event in Glasgow

Computing   Hacking   Internet   Programming  

Mel Gibson in Braveheart

Monday, 14 March 2011

The SXSW Tumblr tracker
Dan Catt

We've sent roving reporters off to SXSW armed only with a handful of mobile devices, a random selection of power cables, some laptops for emergencies and a handful of Tumblr blogs. This is how we're pulling some of it together on our Tumblr Tracker

Computing   Guardian Hacks SXSW   Internet   SXSW   Tumblr  

SXSW Tumblr Tracker

Friday, 18 February 2011

Notes on Release 106
David Shaw

David Shaw provides an overview of the most recent changes to guardian.co.uk

Computing   Internet  


Friday, 28 January 2011

Notes for Release 105
Gwyn Lockett

Gwyn Lockett summarises some of the features in the latest release of our content management and delivery system

Computing   Internet  

Lotto tickets

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Tags are magic! - Part 3
Martin Belam, Peter Martin

In part three of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how we keep our tags useful for the audience, and in line with house style

Internet   Tags are magic  

A tag lying across a MacBook keyboard

Monday, 17 January 2011

Notes on Release 104
Gideon Goldberg

The last drops of ice have melted away following our Christmas code freeze and we are sufficiently recovered from the festivities to bring you the latest round of updates and fixes to the site

Computing   Internet  

Footprints

Thursday, 23 December 2010

Microapps and the Art of Widget Maintenance
Dan Catt

The rather strange practice of killing your own servers by pointing Guardian traffic at them, and how not to let that happen ... otherwise known as what I learnt about caching in a very short space of time

Apps   Computing   Internet  

MicroApp over here!