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Change is good, or so they say. In our case, we wanted to do some spring cleaning and strip back our website into something a bit more us. A bit more 2014. So here it is. We took a variety of new approaches when compared to our old site, and in this post I'm going...

As you can see, we’ve given the website a bit of a spruce up over the past few months. Hopefully, we’ve improved the usability of the site, and the updates will assure our customers (and prospective ones), as well as Google, that we are moving with the times and our content is fresh. Our updates...

When examining how to build a new Sencha Touch 2 application for production, I wanted to make sure I wasn't reinventing the wheel. I'd heard of Sencha's commandline SDK tools but this gave me cause to look into it more. Now that I've done so, I'm impressed, but I think the documentation could be doing...

We have just rolled out an update to Stubmatic. Although on the surface stubmatic looks the same we have made some major changes to the underlying logic in preparation for some future enhancements that we are working on. For now one of the biggest changes you will notice is we have updated the way events...

As mobile and smartphone camera technology continues to become more powerful, there has been increased speculation into the usefulness of camera phones for driving consumers of offline marketing towards digital content via scannable tags, codes and images. Mobile tagging adoption From crowd-sourcing reviews and comments of physical products via barcode scanning, to embedding URLs in...

The source code which makes up the software we develop is our most valuable asset. As such, it needs to be treated with love and care. While backing up assets like this is important, with something such as source code - which is changed by multiple developers - you also want something to analyse and...

The second edition of the book written by Shea Frederick, Steve "Cutter" Blades, Nigel White and myself is now available for purchase. Learning Ext JS covers version 3.2+ of the Ext JS JavaScript framework and will give developers who are new to the framework a head-start in creating high-quality rich applications. The second edition updates...

Investigating Crazy Egg's heatmap and visitor tracking tool today, I found a nice bit of UI in their plans and signup process. The plans page itself looks sweet: But the really slick part comes when you click the "Sign Up" button: The other plans fade out and the signup form slides in - no page...