Mobile oxford university of london mobile applications showcase - 20 september 2012
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Presentation by Tim Fernando (Mobile Oxford, Oxford University) as part of a Mobile Apps and eReaders Showcase at the Centre for Distance Education, University of London
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Mobile oxford university of london mobile applications showcase - 20 september 2012
- 1. Mobile Oxford University of London Mobile Applications Showcase 20 September 2012 Tim Fernando Tech. Project Manager University of Oxford IT Services Mobile Oxford Molly Project University of Oxford http://m.ox.ac.uk http://mollyproject.org http://www.ox.ac.uk @mobileox @mollyproject
- 2. Tablets to exceed sales of PCs in 2013
- 3. Comscore
- 4. Android OS fragmentation Source: Google
- 5. Android display type fragmentation Source: Google
- 6. The Mobile Oxford Team Tim Fernando, Martin Filliau, Dave King Twitter: @timfernando, @martinfilliau, @davbo Now part of software solutions group at IT Services “guns for hire”
- 7. Current projects include: Mobile Oxford Telecoms self-service status.ox events.ox Security command and control
- 8. Where we started Q3 2009
- 9. Came out of a JISC research project
- 10. Python Django Postgis Technology stack Allowed us to build fast
- 11. ? We didn’t know what the use cases were
- 12. We built bits as use cases were identified
- 13. FAIL. Long term technical debt.
- 14. We only started to realise this when we open sourced Mobile Oxford as the Mollyproject. Others had difficulty in setting up Molly
- 16. But wait, this is how the big boys do web development.... We were missing something
- 17. We were missing a deployment process
- 18. Continuous Deployment Commit Github Post Commit Hook Jenkins IRC message IRC message Test suite passed Live deployment Fabric IRC + email
- 19. Toolset
- 20. GITHUB Source repository, “social coding”, issue tracking and lightweight Wiki
- 25. PUPPET Automated system environment deployment
- 27. The future of Mobile Oxford
- 29. NEW BACKEND NEW USER INTERFACE
- 30. Concentrating on personalization and "Just at the right time" information (like Google Now)
- 31. Responsive design with a native wrapper
- 32. Backend storage in Solr
- 33. We realised that the majority of use cases involved searching/browsing for information quickly with a bit of customisation.
- 34. Record writing and indexing 600 Seconds 450 Seconds 300 Seconds 150 Seconds 0 Seconds Open Street Map, POI of Oxfordshire Import time Postgis (PostgreSQL) Solr
- 35. More Weblearn Integration with Student Systems Deep events integration Work in progress and will be made open source with a pmissive license
- 36. Devolved Structure Allows special things to happen
- 37. However as a result there are hundreds of software systems in the University
- 38. APIs are the key to delivering an integrated experience in the University
- 39. Forbes - Explaining the api revolution to your CEO http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2011/12/15/explaining-the-api-revolution-to-your-ceo/
- 40. UIs are now usually uncoupled from data systems API UI Design Backend data systems
- 41. Mobile Oxford The ‘one stop shop’ for Mobile devices Side effect: has become a central aggregation point and is turning into a University portal. Op en Str s eet Ma N ew p Service status Library search s Mu sstop ch mo re! Bu
- 42. We would like to achieve an integrated experience across all systems
- 43. tim.fernando@it.ox.ac.uk @timfernando http://m.ox.ac.uk Mobile Oxford @mobileox http://mollyproject.org Molly Project @mollyproject