Very close to declare the current v4 codebase officially frozen, as we begin to start v5 coding (more prettiness, more data, more features, more speed).

www.mediauk.com/blog

There, that was simple, wasn’t it?

This new home will continue to contain updates about our website (though in less excrutiating detail); and also media comment. We hope you’ll follow us over there: we’ve got an RSS feed there and everything.

We’ve rewritten our “thanks for posting a job” email, which you get automatically. It’s now more personal, and contains better statistics. As a matter of interest, Media UK gets 188,000 people reading our job pages every month.

Our ‘people’ pages now display correctly for people associated with owners, rather than titles. Here‘s an example. We’ve also made searches for these people work from the Media UK global search.

Articles are now capable of being paginated, and some over-long articles have been paginated as a result.

Apostrophes now work correctly in our search system. Until now, the search system didn’t cope very well with that. We’ve also gone through our names listings and sorted out the odd apostrophes for some of the people there, we hope.

We’ve redesigned our Google Insights page (“see number of web searches for…”) to be a little clearer what it’s all about.

We’ve fixed a little bugette around logging radio station “listen” events for stations with multiple streams.

We’re beginning to work on Facebook login integration.

PS: We know that the plural of apostrophe is “apostrophes”, by the way. It’s a punctuation joke for those paying attention.

We hugely apologise for this (that’s a huge apology) and we’ll put steps in place to ensure that we double-check code like that in our Q&A process.

As a matter of interest, we’ve also tweaked it so that retweets (‘RT’s, for those of you not playing along at home) won’t appear here. So go on, retweet that hate-speech. (Well, no, don’t.)

After our pagination work a few weeks ago for our jobs section, we’ve also added the same pagination code to our Twitter pages, to stop them growing too stupidly unwieldy.

We’ll need 24 hours to completely update all the Twitter information, but most of it’s already updated: and if you’re not, just tweet something – we prioritise regularly-used accounts.

If you want to use that code for yourself, it’s a little piece of badly-formatted PHP, and it’s here:
http://james.cridland.net/code/format_uk_phonenumbers.html – free for you to use wherever you like.

We’ve added clear pagination to our jobs index, as it continues to increase in size. We don’t like long, unwieldy pages, and after a bit of research, it’s clear that you don’t, either.

We’ve also made this pagination a little more consistent within the discussion area, where – if you were lucky – you’d have seen page numbers being small at the top of the page and large at the bottom (eurgh). Our discussion area’s pagination contains “next” buttons (because you’re likely to be reading discussions in order), whereas we don’t have that in our jobs section.

We’ve also added a permanent jobs map link to those jobs in the radio and tv section (our press section doesn’t automatically give us the data we need yet). That should make it even easier to find a job near you.

We’ll continue to tweak this over the coming weeks.