Putting an application in "The Cloud" is something I've been hearing a lot about lately, but what does this mean? In the good old days (about 5 years ago... a lifetime in internet years), the standard way to host your web site would be on a web server. A web server is just a computer like the computer you are using
Read more..."We need an app!" Is what I hear when many business owners start talking about their online presence. This is the wrong way to think, don't put the technology in front of your business objectives. Instead, think more like this: "We need to be available to users when they are on the road". That sounds like a better t
Read more...Search engine optimisation. everyone talks about it, but what is it exactly? In broad terms it is the process of tweaking your site to to give it maximum visibility on search engines. There are countless websites and blogs that talk about the many ways to do this, so I'm not going to repeat all that information here.
Read more...Short answer: No. Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooo. The acronyms above are probably some of many that you hear when talking to developers. "ASP.NET sucks!", "Java is expensive!", "PHP is for babies!", etc... At the end of the day as far as the end-user (the person using your website) is concerned, this doesn't make
Read more...“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.” ― Frederick P
Read more..."Bitcraft", thats us. Do you like our name? It's a portmanteau of 2 words. BIT and CRAFT. What do those words mean? A bit is the fundamental unit of any computation. It's a 1 or a 0, on or off. 8 bits together make a byte. That byte can represent a letter or a simple colour. 1024 bytes make a kilobyte, which can repre
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