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Mate Rocks! - It’s official
Posted: Aug 2008 | In: Development | Leave a comment
I don't enjoy programming anymore, it's frustrating and tedious; This has been my mantra for a good few years, but I might be about to change my mind! Having just spent a solid two days in the presence of Adobe Flex and ASFusion's Mate framework I've suddenly got the urge to do some programming!
World Cancer Research Fund UK
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
The "Cancer Prevention" sub-section of the WCRF(UK) web site has been successfully delivered, on time and on budget.
DC goes National! 0845 862 5550
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
Our new "local" rate 0845 number is ready! You can now call us on 0845 862 5550 from a landline or mobile phone. If you prefer, or it works out cheaper for you, you can still reach us on 0208 9797 300.
Secret Web TV project gets key sponsor approval!
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: News | Leave a comment
Our pioneering Web TV project got the green light this week from a key industry sponsor. Very close to being able to tell you all about it, we just need the green light from all the interested parties.
St. Jamess House
Posted: Jul 2008 | In: Design & Development & News | Leave a comment
We are delighted to announce that we have been asked to redesign and redevelop St. James's House. Work on this high profile site will start very shortly and we hope to be done before the end of August 2008.
Secret WebTV project reaches Beta release!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & Expression Engine & Hosting | Leave a comment
We're truly thrilled to announce that an exciting new B2B media project in partnership with a new media company reached the Beta milestone this weekend. After 14 months of planning & development, our brand new state of the art WebTV channel is almost ready to go!!!
Firefox 3 is launched today!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: News & Stuff | Leave a comment
Firefox 3 was officially released today! Free, Fast, Compliant... Make the switch and ditch Internet Explorer today! Get Firefox 3 - now!
QuantSol is Reloaded!
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & News & Stuff | Leave a comment
It gives us great pleasure to announce the release of QuantaSols revamped website! All new structure, all new features, and with all the old content still intact!
ASFusion Mate for Flex, a new framework for Flex
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Development & Stuff | Leave a comment
Mate, from ASFusion is a new framework for Flex developers that attempts to address the many perceived flaws in the Cairngorm Framework. It's too early to tell just yet, but I'm very seriously considering bringing my Cairngorm investigation to a close and pushing further ahead with Mate. I've been very impressed in the week I've had with it so far.
Diverse-Britain Reloaded
Posted: Jun 2008 | In: Hosting & News | Leave a comment
Our Diverse Britain website, part of the St. Jamess House family of websites has been re-released as a Linux/PHP application so that it could relocated it to our rock solid Linux platform.
Implementing .NET thread security with WebORB, Cairngorm and Flex 3
Posted: May 2008 | In: Development | Leave a comment
One of the first challenges I've faced so far has been making the web service calls from Flex more robust and more secure, in this article I discuss how I've implemented .NET thread security using WebORB.NET and Cairngorm. But I'm looking for feedback, do you know a better way?
Ecotricity.co.uk - We’ve switched to Renewable Energy
Posted: May 2008 | In: News & Stuff | Leave a comment
No offsetting, no gimmicks, no marketing spin. Divine Creations gets all of its energy from the renewable energy provider ecotricity.co.uk.
Expression Engine upgraded from 1.6.1 to 1.6.3
Posted: May 2008 | In: Expression Engine & News | Leave a comment
We've just finished an out of hours upgrade of several of our clients' EE installations. Most were moving from 1.6.2 or 1.6.1 to the latest 1.6.3 and it all went smoothly, except for one slight issue with php caching which gave us the impression the upgrades had failed!
Flex 3 with WebORB - The first steps
Posted: May 2008 | In: Development | Leave a comment
I've recently taken up the Flex 3 challenge, but I've encountered a few problems whilst setting up WebORB.NET in my development environment.
QuantaSol Phase II
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: News | 1 Comments
Almost a year after the launch of QuantaSol and their CMS Website, we are now working on the next phase of development. The aim is to review the sites strengths and weaknesses and evolve it to reflect the company twelve months on.
Sliding Doors CSS Revisited
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: CSS & Design | Leave a comment
Recently I had to perform a code review of an administration system I helped with some time ago. For the form control buttons, I'd used a technique that was shared in A List Apart's Website called Sliding Doors of CSS. It provided a comprehensive tutorial on creating attractive buttons with curved edges that expand no matter how long the text link inside is.
Adding Colour to Black & White Photographs
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Photography | Leave a comment
I was recently asked if I could add some colour and remove tiny imperfections from some old black & white wedding photographs. The job is now complete, you can see the images in the projects section, and I thought I'd share some of the techniques I used.
Full Google Calendar integration on the Mac version of Thunderbird & Lightning
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Stuff | Leave a comment
Having enjoyed using a fully integrated Google calendar on my PC using Thunderbird/Lightning, it puzzled me when I couldn't find a Google calendar option whilst adding a remote calendar on the Mac? Best I could get is a read only version using the iCal connector. Or so I thought...
The Phorm fall out
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & News | Leave a comment
The recent media frenzy surround the ad-tracking system called Phorm has highlighted some important questions regarding the legality of "opt-out" services.
SPF Policies
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & Hosting | Leave a comment
We recently discovered an issue with a few of our websites that generate solicited emails. We were finding that emails were being marked as junk, yet our SMTP server wasn't on any blacklists and wasn't an open relay. After a little digging, this is when I learned about Sender Policy Frameworks (SPF).
Linking to weblog template groups in EE
Posted: Apr 2008 | In: Development & Expression Engine | Leave a comment
What if you're showing a list of entries, from more than one weblog, but you don't want each link that is created to go to the same template? How do you get EE to produce links to different templates depending on an articles particular weblog assignment?
Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: Reading | Leave a comment
Another of the "Classroom In A Book" series, this book provides you with 11 short, clear lessons on the basics of learning Flash.
Kuleration
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: Design | Leave a comment
Kuleration is a great place to check out colour palettes that people have put together, and to mix & play with your own.
Divine Creations gets the Expression Engine Treatment
Posted: Mar 2008 | In: Expression Engine & News | Leave a comment
Finally we've found the time to implement Expression Engine into our own Website.
RAF08.COM reloaded
Posted: Feb 2008 | In: | Leave a comment
Our RAF 90 website, part of the St. Jamess House family of websites has been re-released as a Linux/PHP application so that it could relocated it to our rock solid Linux platform.
Tibet Foundation UK
Posted: Sep 2007 | In: News | 1 Comments
We are delighted to be working closely with the Tibet Foundation to give its web presence a gentle nudge into the 21st century! Tibet Foundation is a non-political charity set up to help Tibetans in exile.
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