Kelvin Gan
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So long, and thanks for all the gifs.
On Friday 11 November, myself, Tom and Liam will be saying goodbye to the University of Bath. I will have served for 14 years, 3 months and 13 days. Well, longer than that actually as that's when I started in...
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Get told immediately when your tests pass or fail with Guard and terminal-notifier-guard
Got your feedback loop between writing code and executing tests down to the shortest time possible? Of course you have. After all, you know your tried-and-tested shortcut keys. But there may be something better than your years-old habit. Just run...
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What tech we use to test our CMS: Minitest and Capybara
The road less travelled For the Editor side of our new CMS, we have made a couple of choices in testing that are a little bit off the beaten track. For starters we are using Minitest instead of RSpec. Most...
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How we implemented file uploading in our CMS
The setup We have built into our CMS the ability to attach files to our Publication content type. Here I'll go cover the steps and hurdles we went through in implementing this very common feature. On our first pass we took...
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Our Github workflow
We are only 10 months into adopting Github Enterprise for our version control system and have many things still to learn. Near the start of that period we needed a workflow for managing the contributions that our team of devs,...
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Show & Tell , September 12 2014
On Friday 12th we had another bumper show and tell with attendance from our Director of Marketing no less. Homepage Countdown Miles, Tom Trentham and Dan talked us through their findings and rationale to their current proposal. Some of which...
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Show & Tell, August 15 2014
Our Show and Tell had another full billing of five talks. Here's what the team presented. Professional Services: Challenges and Lessons - Paul Paul showed us before and after shots of a couple of sites that we had relaunched. These...
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2013 was... the Year Of The Snake
We're now two months on since 2013 ended and many will say that a year review of 2013 would seem quite late. Yes, ok, if you're going to be all Gregorian about your calendars it is - but I'll be...
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Porting GatherContent API sites into OpenCms
We are currently using GatherContent for some of our projects. It allows our Content Team to focus on (ahem!) gathering content and stores it in a structured manner. I won't really talk about that aspect of GatherContent as that is...