Changes at web team HQ
The web team has recently gained a fifth member. Rich Gordon joined last month as Website Migration Project Officer. His focus will be on moving websites into the main content management system. It will be a big task!…
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Web team drop-in clinic
This afternoon (12:00 – 14:00) the Web team ran our third monthly drop-in clinic. By popular demand here are some reflections on how it went. How it all began Every now and then I’ll be chatting with someone, usually…
Contacting the web team
To help us manage more effectively how we deal with support calls, we would like to encourage people to email support requests to [email protected] rather than directly to individual members of the web team.…
Drop-in clinics
The web team has begun to hold drop-in clinics for any users to ask questions, receive training or discuss any web-related topic. These sessions are held on the first Friday of every month. As such, the next one is…
Should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6?
Every couple of months the same topic of conversation comes up in the Web team office: should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6? The answer so far has always been a resigned yes, but that may not be the case…
Xobni for Outlook
The University is currently in the process of moving to a replacement service for staff email and calendars, which are currently provided via two separate, locally-hosted applications, including Meeting Maker. The new…
mSaint – student portal for iPhone
Last month Duncan blogged about making the student handbook mobile friendly which was in preparation for mSaint – the new student portal for the iPhone, built on the campusM platform from oMbiel. mSaint went live this…
Papal Bull – Original or iPad edition?
The University’s Photo of the Week (and accompanying press release) this week shows one of the Papal Bulls issued by Pope Benedict XIII in 1413 that formally constituted the University of St Andrews. Is it just me, or…
Our journey into Agile, pt.2
Encountering Agile Back in April 2008 I attended the Scotland on Rails 2008 conference in Edinburgh; I literally have the t-shirt to prove it. It was an absolutely fascinating (read: über-geeky) conference let down…
Using Yahoo! Pipes to filter an RSS feed
I’m currently working on a redesign of the University’s research homepage which involves a requirement to pull in three RSS feeds: Recent research outputs (from the PURE research portal, which hasn’t gone public yet)…