The Web Services team at CIM was founded in 2009 when the QA team decided to perform early testing—really early testing.
So early, in fact, that the QA Web Services engineers attended scrums with the developers and set up a development environment where the code from all the developers was integrated at least once a day. [...]
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Introducing: Xfinity TV Sports Remote
Hey, do you like sports? Do you like watching sports on TV? You’re going to like the Xfinity TV Sports Remote.
For a little over a year we’ve had an app available called Xfinity TV. This app lets you see what’s on your TV and On Demand, change the channel on your TV, set a DVR [...]
How it works: Personalization & Changing Channels
Today I’m going to discuss how our Xfinity TV website and mobile app features work. Topics I’m covering include unlocking personalized features with your @comcast.net username and how using the site/app changes channels on the TV without needing to be in the house. I wrap up the post with a quick way to customize the Guide by setting up TV Listings Favorites.
In Apple Stores now…Xfinity TV Release 1.2.1
Work continues on the Xfinity TV app at a rapid pace. Our goals for the app are to bring enhanced features and more content to more platforms. A few weeks ago we launched the first version of Xfinity TV for Android, and today we are releasing version 1.2.1 of the iOS version for iPad and [...]
Benchmarking the HttpClient Caching Module
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Overview
During the past year, CIM has submitted many features to the HttpClient Caching module. We recently ran some benchmarks to quantify the performance benefits and test a few failure scenarios.
Through our benchmarks, we aimed to do the following:
Characterize latency and capacity benefits provided by the caching module.
Characterize latency and capacity benifits of locally-bound memcached [...]
Comcast Debuts iPad Xfinity TV App and You Can Download it NOW
CIM’s SVP & GM, Matt Strauss, posted a piece about the app on Comcast Voices.
YouTube: Watch Comcast Cable President, Neil Smit, Demo the Xfinity TV App at Web 2.0:
You can download the app and get your questions answered about it on Xfinity.com.
Welcome to Lab Week
The third Lab Week of 2010 took place from July 26 to July 30. Projects ranged from games to social media integration endeavors to raw API request optimizations. There were seventeen total projects, and more than forty-five participants.