Hi Tavis
I was interested in point 4:
persistent URLs (and URL rewriting)
Note that the JISC currently have a call open on applications of the Linking You Toolkit. As described in a post at
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/jisc-funding-to-enhance-access-to-uk-university-web-sites/
"These projects will innovate around the “JISCLINKU” Toolkit product which is currently under development which will help to exploit the benefits provided by a variety of linking and related strategies. Funded projects will beta test and advance the JISCLINKU Toolkit and help make it ready for use across the wider sector for the start of the next academic year (2012-13). A key institutional driver for this work will be raising the visibility of institutional Web sites to attract the intake of new fee-paying students.
The ‘Linking You Toolkit’ is available athttp://lncn.eu/toolkit.
If sufficient numbers of Universities agree to use of common URL
patterns it should be possible to develop services around content
provided across the sector. As well as benefits from such services,
links to key institutional resources should also provide benefits in
terms of Google juice to institutions which are being linked to.
I'm pleased you have identified the importance of persistent URLs and
URL rewriting. My suggestion is that your work in this area should be
informed by work being carried out within this programme (and possibly
make use of tools which may be developed).
Note that I would hope that the benefits of these approaches will be
described at IWMW 2012.
Brian
On 16/11/2011 09:49, Tavis Reddick wrote:
> Our test/development website is being replaced, and we are to specify a new one.
>
> What kinds of collaborative web development and testing environments are thought best practice in (further) education institutes?
>
> We would be looking at these kind of requirements:
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> 1 building up libraries of reusable components (for example XSLT and CSS stylesheets) before live deployment;
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> 2 server technologies (ASP.NET, possibly PHP);
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> 3 alpha (developer) testing, beta (user) testing, white box (see the code), black box (don't see the code), accessibility, usability, performance and other testing and debugging (possibly including user testing of rules with dummy data);
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> 4 persistent URLs (and URL rewriting);
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> 5 demos, proofs of concept, working prototypes (early versions of applications), simulations (for example, URL crafting in web and email), code examples;
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> 6 connections to test and production data sources (or offline caches of these) and external web services/resources;
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> 7 integration with a code repository (we use Microsoft SourceSafe);
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> 8 developing web services;
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> 9 documentation, versioning and branching;
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> 10 per user, per team and cross-institute work areas;
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> 11 possibly a feedback system;
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> 12 (externally-sourced) server and user interface (say, rich text editor) component testing;
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> 13 possibly support for open source licensing and publishing to general public;
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> 14 possibly sample data/content generation;
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> 15 media generation (say, XML to PDF/HTML, images, office documents);
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> 16 technical peer reviews (discuss, share best practice);
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> and so on.
>
> As I say, we are more interested at the moment in best patterns and practices for small teams of developers rather than a packaged solution.
>
>
> Tavis Reddick
> Web Content and Architecture Developer
> ICT Systems Development
> ICT Department
> Adam Smith College
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