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  1. The lessons learnt creating a design system for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Online

    Dave Morris and Josh Tumath explain the process for creating a new design system for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's websites

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  2. Designing Â鶹ԼÅÄ Search

    Users frequently enter short and vague terms, which are often misspelt. If we could help users enter more accurate search terms then we would be able to give them much more useful and relevant results.

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  3. Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer Mobile and Tablet Apps updated

    There have been times when as many as four different features were being worked on at the same time all hidden behind ‘flags’ in the code that prevented the end user from seeing them.

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  4. Â鶹ԼÅÄ News linked data ontology

    Ways that we can use linked data to help users discover relevant News stories quickly and easily on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ website.

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  5. CPS Vivo: a new content management system for Â鶹ԼÅÄ streams

    The principle behind Vivo is to build a lightweight responsive single page web application that is built on the cloud to support three key editorial workflows.

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  6. Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sport App on Chromecast

    After the success of the Chromecast integration in Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer, we had a opportunity to take all of the multi-stream content from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sport website and provide our users with a new way of viewing this summer’s live sporting events on the big screen

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  7. Designing Â鶹ԼÅÄ internal software tools: iSite and iBroadcast

    Software design is complex. Even with a strong voice from the product owner, the detail around interaction patterns and behaviours can be lost-in-translation between Business Analyst, Designer, and Developer.

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  8. Empowerment and disruption - our strategy and architecture teams discuss technology transformation

    Highlights from a conference bringing together the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s community of technical strategists and architectural practitioners.

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  9. New Â鶹ԼÅÄ Research & Development website

    We are releasing a beta version of the new Â鶹ԼÅÄ R&D website.

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  10. Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs

    We operate a HTTP cache known as Radix. Its purpose is to act as a uniform origin for client-facing HTTP distribution systems. With new streaming formats and ever increasing bitrates putting strain on the existing storage capacity, these systems do require upgrades from time to time.

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  11. Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sport app: "Top Stories" widget

    The Top Stories widget will enables users to easily keep up-to-date with the latest sport action. Users can read the top sport headlines by swiping to view their Notification Centre (on iPhone and iPad), or on their homescreen (Android phones and tablets).

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  12. Expanding Our Horizons With ChatGPT

    Imagine what a hard-pressed producer looking for a new entertainment format could do with the latest generative AI tools.

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  13. Music Events Platform: a domain driven approach

    Eavis is the platform that controls and publishes our music events experiences on the web, tablet, mobile and interactive TV.

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  14. 8 things I learnt while creating my first animation

    I am Charlotte Thornton, a UX designer on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Visual Journalism team. I was recently given the task of creating my first animation to explain the process your old clothes go through after they have been donated to a charity shop. I'd like to share some key points I learnt through the process.

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  15. College of Production round up: Earth Unplugged

    This week, one assistant producer’s journey from traditional TV to YouTube, how a West London community station is reaching its audiences through new digital platforms, and how to choose and use the perfect image online in the return of our Twitter Q&As.

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  16. CRL extensions and Apache 2.4

    We use digital certificates for service-to-service and user-to-service secured communication, relying on centralised policies and procedures for issuing and updating all our certificates. Recently we updated our Transport Layer Security enabled Apache server to version 2.4 and had issues.

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  17. How we grow junior developers at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Software Engineering Graduate Scheme is a two-year scheme for anyone who has a Computer Science related degree. It's a great way to enter the Â鶹ԼÅÄ as a junior-level Software Engineer with the added bonus of being able to move teams every six months with opportunities to develop skills.

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  18. Enabling Secure HTTP for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Online - update

    We’ve made some really good progress and now Â鶹ԼÅÄ products can roll out HTTPS.

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