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Thursday, 24 January 2019

Leaving Scribe
Richard Beddington

In 2013 we developed the Scribe text editor component. This formed a key part of our world class journalism toolkit and has been used by many others for their own text editing needs. Five years later, we discuss why it’s time to move on.

Open source   Scribe  

The Scribe editor in the Guardian’s CMS

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Git Merge 2016
Roberto Tyley

A belated report back on the Git Merge 2016 conference, held over two days in April.

Computing   Git   Open source   Software  

The stage of Git Merge 2016

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service
Sébastien Cevey

This is the story of how we are building Grid, the Guardian’s new image management system, working very closely with our editorial colleagues and using a modern technology stack. Oh, and it’s all Open Source.

Open source   Software  

Screenshot of the Grid image service showing results for a search for Edward Snowden

Friday, 29 May 2015

Maintaining an open source project at the Guardian
Robert Rees

Scribe is the most popular in-house open source project in the Guardian. Recently community developers have been making some major contributions to the project, confirming the value of open-source and the benefit of the Guardian of being open about our work.

Computing   Open source   Programming   Scribe  

Children sharing a snack

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Prout: is your pull request out?
Roberto Tyley

How do you know your pull request is on production?

Cloud computing   Computing   Open source   Software  

Seen on PROD (merged by @rtyley 7 minutes and 4 seconds ago). Please check your changes!

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Introducing the new Guardian Developers Site
Oliver Joseph Ash

Why and how we built a home for our developers.

Computing   Open source   Software  

The new Guardian Developers Site.


Thursday, 20 March 2014

Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor
Oliver Joseph Ash

The team behind the Guardian’s digital content management system talk about how and why they built and open sourced Scribe.

HTML5   Open source   Scribe   Software   Web 2.0  

Composer, the Guardian’s CMS, built on top of Scribe.

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Agit – a Git client for Android
Roberto Tyley

Roberto Tyley describes the process of writing Agit, a new kind of Android app for developers

Android   Git   Open source   Smartphones   Software  

Agit  - Android Git Client