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Friday 4 October 2013
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A view on how an update to the mobile site has been created and how we're evolving into an Alpha testing phase
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Thursday 3 October 2013
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A look at a UK programming conference with an "education track" aiming to inspire young students to learn about computing
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Friday 20 September 2013
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The Guardian's mobile website dashboard showing data about page load speeds
Some notes from the Guardian's responsive mobile team on how they've made deploying software changes quick and simple to do
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Tuesday 17 September 2013
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If Doctor Who were a programmer, he'd use deferreds. Photograph: Steve Brown/BBC/Steve Brown
An introduction to the concept of deferreds in software development, a useful tool for handling asynchronous code where results may not always be available
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Thursday 12 September 2013
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Racks of servers at CERN (Photo by Torkild Retvedt)
How the Guardian migrated its digital operations platform and upgraded it in the process without any downtime or server meltdowns
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Thursday 15 August 2013
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The crowd at Young Rewired State 2013
Some of the Guardian's digital development team describe a day mentoring young coders for the annual Festival of Code by Young Rewired State
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Wednesday 31 July 2013
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UiAutomator in action, Android's automated testing framework
Some tips and tricks on working with Android test automation as learned by the Guardian's software testing team
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Wednesday 24 July 2013
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Ractive.js is used to create guardian.co.uk interactives, such as 'Food game: How well do you know the world?'
The Guardian's interactive team introduce a new JavaScript tool for manipulating webpages
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Wednesday 3 July 2013
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The bleeding-edge monitoring dashboard for a service we're working on called "concierge". Ten minutes to write, one second to parse
Some lessons learned by the Guardian's software team on building (and fixing) digital systems quickly and confidently
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Tuesday 18 June 2013
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Photo by Travis Modisette via Flickr
By moving towards a GitHub flow with continuous integration, the Guardian's software team describe how they've streamlined development and testing
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Friday 7 June 2013
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Firestorm. Photograph: /Guardian
What comes out of a 3-month-long project involving journalists, designers, and developers - with teams in two countries, spanning four editorial desks? Well, lots of lessons. Here's our top ten learnings.
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Sunday 28 April 2013
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Raspberry Pi running The BFG, cleaning commits about twice as fast a quad-core Mac running 'git-filter-branch'
Some things you shouldn't share: passwords, private keys, and unwanted gigabytes of random data. Something you do want to share is your code, in a Git repository, which... oh, damn - has a bunch of that awful stuff checked in from ages ago. Maybe some of those things are still in your latest commits, maybe they were deleted soon after they were added, but now you have to clean your Git history - to make it as though those things were never there.
The traditionally recommended tool for doing this is the magnificent chainsaw git-filter-branch. It's a little complicated to use, and on a big repo it can take many hours to run. When I came to think about it, I realised I could create something much faster.
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Friday 26 April 2013
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Graham Tackley, the Guardian's Head of Architecture, shares how our software team use technology like Scala, Akka and Play Framework to power our web presence
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
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State of the Browser 2013 conference
One of the Guardian's software development team shares his thoughts on the recent web conference event
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Thursday 11 April 2013
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A crowd of people ready to start Hack the Government 2013 with Rewired State
Some of the Guardian's software development team attend the annual event exploring government data and creative uses of technology
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On the Guardian
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1. Football: Manchester City v Everton – as it happened
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- 3. Music: Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus
- 4. Football: Premier League clockwatch – live!
- 5. World: Foreign military raid al-Shabaab headquarters in Somalia, reports say
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1. Premier League clockwatch – live!
- 2. Chelsea face ups and downs as they seek to advance, says José Mourinho
- 3. Iran's supreme leader questions Hassan Rouhani's diplomacy with US
- 4. John Kerry: shutdown does not change US commitment to Asia
- 5. Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo – review
On the Guardian today
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Music
Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus
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Science
Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds
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Technology
GTA V Online: Rockstar launches update to fix PS3 problems
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World news
The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets
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Science
US scientists boycott Nasa conference over China ban
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World news
NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users