http://www.divine-creations.com/blog en matt@divine-creations.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-07T18:22:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/mate_rocks http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/mate_rocks #When:18:22:00Z 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! In two days, I've managed to rework a section of a website that took me weeks to develop in HTML. This obviously isn't directly attributable to Mate, I think Flex has to be thanked for that. However, where Mate helped, and indeed positively shined, has been that its enabled me to effortlessly control my applications work flow and data without getting in the way. I think I'm a Flex convert, and with the aide of the Mate framework, perhaps now tedium and frustration are a thing of the past. Get Mate Now! Development 2008-08-07T18:22:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/world_cancer_research_fund_project_completed http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/world_cancer_research_fund_project_completed #When:17:41:00Z The "Cancer Prevention" sub-section of the WCRF(UK) web site has been successfully delivered, on time and on budget.We're delighted to have successfully completed the new sub-site for the WCRF, you can check out the work done by visiting the WCRF Project in our projects section. Development, News 2008-07-30T17:41:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/dc_goes_national_0845_862_5550 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/dc_goes_national_0845_862_5550 #When:15:57:00Z 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.To further improve our client relationships, we've just got ourselves what BT would describe as a "non-geographic local call" number. Which means, wherever you are in the UK, you should be able to call us as the same rate as a local call. Needless to say, calls from mobile networks may vary! What is an 0845 number? What will it cost me to call? Calling Divine-Creations from a SIP telephone Simply dial 2255550 from your Gradwell SIP phone. Or... AQL: Dial **467 2255550 Call UK: Dial **467 2255550 Deltathree/Connectthere: Dial **467 2255550 FWD: Dial **472 2255550 Gossiptel: Dial **467 2255550 Global Village: Dial **484 2255550 IPTel: Dial **467 2255550 The Internet Phone Co.: Dial **467 2255550 Pipecall: Dial **467 2255550 Plusnet: Dial **467 2255550 Sipphone: Dial **467 2255550 Sipgate: Dial **467 or 000472 and 2255550 VoipPhone: Dial **467 2255550 Other clients of Gradwell can reach us for free! News 2008-07-20T15:57:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/secret_web_tv_project_gets_key_sponsor_approval http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/secret_web_tv_project_gets_key_sponsor_approval #When:15:52:00Z 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. News 2008-07-20T15:52:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/st_jamess_house http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/st_jamess_house #When:13:29:00Z 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.Our creative brief from Gary and Richard is to create a site that conveys a sense of timeless elegance in the modern age. Many interesting ideas have been put forward so far, but at this stage the design is still very much nebulous. What is known is that the delivery platform will be Expression Engine on a Linux server, and as ever, it will be a text book example of web standards and best practices. Design, Development, News 2008-07-07T13:29:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/b2b_site_goes_into_beta_release http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/b2b_site_goes_into_beta_release #When:19:07:00Z 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!!!We’d really like to say more, shout about it from the roof tops, or at the very least show case it in our portfolio section, but for contractual reasons we’ve got to keep tight lipped for a few more weeks! Watch This Space! Development, Expression Engine, Hosting 2008-06-23T19:07:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/firefox_3 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/firefox_3 #When:15:47:00Z Firefox 3 was officially released today! Free, Fast, Compliant... Make the switch and ditch Internet Explorer today! Get Firefox 3 - now! News, Stuff 2008-06-17T15:47:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/quantsol_ii_is_live http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/quantsol_ii_is_live #When:19:23:00Z 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! Check it out in our projects section, QuantaSol Phase II Development, News, Stuff 2008-06-16T19:23:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/asfusion_mate_for_flex http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/asfusion_mate_for_flex #When:20:12:00Z 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.Week one of my investigation into the Mate framework has gone very well. With a few tweaks from the ASFusion people, I’ve got a test application up and running with full .NET thread security. I’m still finding the new framework a bit confusing, but I am finding it promotes much better semantic code than Cairngorm ever did. I found Cairngorm very tough going, there was always a lot of grind and boiler plate code to be implemented to achieve relatively little. By contrast, I’m finding Mate quite the opposite, a little code in the right places goes a very long way. In under a week, I’ve produced more complex test applications with much greater ease than I ever did using Cairngorm. Take a look for yourself: Getting started with Mate Development, Stuff 2008-06-15T20:12:00+00:00 http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/diverse_britaincom http://www.divine-creations.com/blog/diverse_britaincom #When:22:47:00Z 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. Hosting, News 2008-06-03T22:47:00+00:00