In September 2008 guardian.co.uk officially finished the rebuilding of our website, which had started (depending how you count it) in October 2005. The project was known internally as R2. Over each of the next 26 working days I’ll be looking at one aspect of the project — one for each letter of the alphabet, for … Continue reading
A quick plug for guardian.co.uk’s software architect Mat Wall. He gave an interview to Software Engineering Radio, and they’ve just put up the podcast. It’s a bit hardcore techie at times, and all the better for that. Even if you’re not hardcore techie yourself Mat and co-interviewee Erik Doernenburg provide a really good feel for … Continue reading
At the weekend the Guardian website went through one of the most significant transformations in its history: we moved our news, politics and Observer content into the new design and new content management system, and we simultaneously launched a lot of new functionality, both internal and external. There’s an introduction and discussion on the more … Continue reading
Today we’ve launched three new sites on Guardian Unlimited. Well, more correctly, we’ve redesigned and rebuilt our Science, Technology and Environment sites. Working for a media organisation, I can rely on people much more articulate than me to tell the stories better — see Alok Jha on Science, Alison Benjamin on Environment and (with more … Continue reading
We’ve just launched the single most visible, most complex, and most trafficked page in the entire network of Guardian Unlimited sites — the Guardian Unlimited front. And in so doing we’ve revealed more of a new design that’s due to roll out over the next few months. There are some really lovely editorial and commercial … Continue reading
My colleague Neil McIntosh writes on his blog: I’m pleased to report this blog has had some success on the recruitment front, so here goes again… and this time, it’s for two of my teams. Indeed, one of the new members of our expanding software team found their way to us through one of Neil’s … Continue reading
We work using agile development processes, which obviously needs the buy-in of internal users and project sponsors. But this jumped out at me when I read it. It’s from Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group, which owns the company I work for. She was announcing a £15m investment in our digital business, and … Continue reading
If you’re interested in the kind of work we’re doing here at Guardian Unlimited, then you might be interested in joining us. We’re looking for a Development Manager. As an experiment I put an ad on Google Base (now expired). Here’s the text in full… Guardian Unlimited is embarking on a concentrated effort to expand … Continue reading
Here at Guardian Unlimited we’ve just launched our new Travel site. You’ll be able to read a lot about it in the industry press, but I just wanted to write a little what we’ve done from a technical-managerial point of view. The project motivation is ideal The main strands of our business are editorial, commercial … Continue reading
My colleague Paul has just returned from New York with others from the team, and has pictures from the Webby award ceremony. Paul also made the five word speech on behalf of GU: “Our Webby 2.0″. Update: There’s a very short video, too.
