Tom Natt
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Goodbye titles are hard
This is my last week as an employee of the University of Bath. I have been coming up The Hill daily for roughly the last fifteen years - first as a student, then as staff - so it's an emotional...
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A hack day out with FutureLearn
Last week I had the privilege of visiting FutureLearn in the British Library for their first partner hack day. Although they have run hack days in the past, this is the first time partners have been invited to take part. So,...
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Deploying Rails applications using Mina and Bamboo
We use Mina to deploy our Ruby on Rails projects. With our deployment scripts written and packaged into a gem we wanted to make use of our continuous integration server to build and deploy automatically to the production and staging environments. Our...
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Show & Tell, 27 March 2015
As our beta project starts producing visible results we're making a slight change to the Show & Tell format. Each session will have a presentation of the beta product to date, with a brief overview of the features shipped in the previous...
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Deploying our Ruby on Rails applications
We are moving away from a Java based infrastructure to writing applications in Ruby on Rails. An important part of our former infrastructure was the ability to automatically deploy our software via the continuous integration server via a series of...
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Show & Tell, July 4 2014
A few days ago, Ross posted about our fortnightly Show & Tell meetings and mentioned that we're going to try to write about each meeting here on this blog. You can probably guess what this post is about! This week we...
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The hard work behind the code
The other day, Ross wrote about the Digital team's delivery principles. I have been working on modernising our development infrastructure for the last few weeks and our fortnightly open house Show & Tell meeting (part of #6 - "work in...
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When there is just too much to do
As a department looking to assist all other groups in the University, there is always a huge demand on our time. We do our best to help everyone, but inevitably there are times when we need to do three things...
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Want to cycle bits of your page? We can help
Right in the middle of our homepage is an area of featured news which cycles on a timer. When we were originally implementing this feature back in 2011 we had a look for a library to drop in, but couldn't...
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The end of the year
2011 has been a busy year here in Web Services. We have had five colleagues leave, another one head off to have twins and four new people start. We have released sites, deleted applications, built all manner of awesome stuff...