Interesting story on how Wired.com ported and merged 17 different blogs into a single WordPress install. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/wired-dot-com-from-the-devs/
Read more...Interesting story on how Wired.com ported and merged 17 different blogs into a single WordPress install. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/wired-dot-com-from-the-devs/
Read more...The dev team and I just spent a long afternoon debugging an issue in Chrome, so we have to share the solution with you. This problem was evident in Chrome, but did not appear in Firefox. On an HTML page with a large amount of content, select drop down menus were behaving very sluggishly. After clicking it would take
Read more...Ok so here's a quick tip I discovered that I'm putting here to remind myself, but also to inform anyone else who comes along. Sometimes when you are looking for a very old email on your iPhone you find the subject, but then trying to read the message you get the unhelpful error "This message has not been downloaded
Read more..."Ahhhhh!" is the sound of countless SEO companies crying out in anguish, according to this article from CNET. This is a good thing for the internet I feel. How often have you done a Google search and ended up on a circular journey through link farms and affiliate sites, trying to find the actual answer to your query
Read more..."About as much as a car." Is my standard answer to this question. In fact, if this question comes up early in the discussion then it's a red flag to me and my team that this client is going to need help with understanding exactly what we do here. A good web development company is far more than a team of developers wh
Read more...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...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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