It's been just over three months since our glorious leader, Alison Kerwin, left on maternity leave - since then I'm delighted to be able to say that not only has she added two healthy bouncing babies to the fray but we've also had four new members of the team start!

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As you can tell from the fact we're hiring new people there are exciting times ahead for Web Services! Since we're also half-way through 2011 I thought it would be a good chance to look back on what we've achieved so far this year.

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There is an EU law coming into force on 25 May about websites needing to ask users before storing information in cookies - the relevant bit about cookies is paragraph 66 (just search the doc for 'cookie' - it only appears once!). Since everyone and their dog seems to have an opinion about the...

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So, everyone's favourite web company, 37signals , have started to publish their customer happiness rates at smiley.37signals.com. People can rate them as "great", "OK" or "not so good". At the time of writing, they have an 87% "great" rating, 5% "OK" and 8% "not so good".

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So what an exciting first few weeks back we’ve had! We started off nice and easy, picking up all the support requests that had been filed over the Christmas break and, after a suggestion from Kelvin last year, put together a demo of an augmented reality map of the University campus using Layar (which I will post more about later). We ...

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Last year Web Services managed 37 blog posts, down from our 2008 total of 63. This is obviously a reflection of the fact that we're working so hard on our new website that we don't have time to blog! For 2010 it would be great for us to get to at least one per week, and a minimum of 52 posts spread across twelve months doesn't sound unreasonable; it's not as if there's not a lot happenin...

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So, with the news that YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye and the recent release of Firefox 3.5 and Interne...

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As of this time last year, the University Academic Year Charts have been generated in HTML, PDF and iCalendar formats from Excel spreadsheets. Previously there were only PDFs for download but we thought that providing versions to view live on the web and a version people could add to their own calendar software ...

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Next Wednesday, intrepid Web Servicer Phil Wilson will be giving the third of our Web Sessions. Following the last talk about consuming information from the web ("The Other Side of the Web - RSS and Atom Feeds" which

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During lunch yesterday we made the rather rash decision that we should make a quick, unscripted, video exploring how Get Creative Week has been going. The hideous result is below. http://www.vimeo.com/1566065 This was filmed on a Nokia N95 on what turne...

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