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Automotive industry manufacturer Sanden recently asked us to import a new set of data into their site, which we built on WordPress several years ago. While we knew this was going to be a one-off custom WordPress data import, there were a few things to consider when deciding how to implement it. The import would...

“Software dependency management” just sounds so glam, doesn’t it? If we rephrase it to say “do less, get more” it starts to sparkle a little. Let’s take a look at this essential topic and some rules that Go Tripod follow in our projects. A “dependency” refers to a unit of code that the rest of...

At Go Tripod, we’ve been in the business of software development for a long time. Although Go Tripod was officially formed in 2009, we’ve got blog posts going back to 2007 which describe the technologies we were interested in at the time. My personal blog goes back to 2003! Here’s a quick list of the...

We’ve recently been extending our reach into the local area by approaching organisations that help connect businesses together. The first of these is Falmouth’s Business Improvement Distract (BID), who help boost the town by investing in marketing, business support, events and a variety of improvement mechanisms. The second is Software Cornwall, who connect and support...

Ten years ago, just before Go Tripod was formed, I was an independent contractor with a strong eye on my bottom line, so I created a way to track my income at-a-glance. This was extremely useful at the time, as it helped a young Colin make sure he had enough pennies at the end of...

An early temptation when setting up a development shop is to diversify: to provide logo design, SEO assistance, print work, marketing. The ability to sell yourself to clients as a one stop shop is compelling, with the idea being that you can capture more work and provide a better experience for customers. At Go Tripod,...

One of the problems with being a small, independent software development agency is that we’re usually so busy on client projects that we don’t often get much time to devote to our own business needs. To this end our own website has languished as a glorified holding page for quite some time. But no longer!...

A warm welcome to our latest team member, Matthew Dixon! Matthew joins us as Lead Front-End Developer, and will be working to translate responsive designs into wonderful web experiences. His HTML5, CSS3 and WordPress experience will combine with our new hosting partner, WP Engine, to work with both new and existing customers!

Colin’s started playing around with the new React Native from Facebook, a way of building native-speed applications for iOS using JavaScript. It’s a completely new approach and we’re really excited about it – follow Colin’s experiments over at his personal blog.

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...

You have probably heard about the SSL Heartbleed threat by now. In case you have not, here is a summary. What is SSL? SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol that websites use to encrypt and protect data between you and them. This happens in the background whenever you use, for example, online banking. So...

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...

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...

Even though the Tripods are normally beavering away with client work or one of our products, we’re firm believers in taking time out to relax and have fun to break up the working day and provide an outlet for all the excess energy an office worker builds up. Campaign Monitor are one of our favourite...

The Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook by Jorge Ramon is now available. As Jorge says in his introductory post: The Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook is for developers who want a book of useful techniques, with explanations, that they can refer to and adapt to their purposes. I was a Technical Reviewer for this book, and it...

Just to let you all know I have updated WP-Flcikr, making it compatible with WordPress 2.5 As part of the update, I have fixed the following: Compatibility with WordPress 2.5 Issue where users without curl installed would get an error authenticating Updated the style to match WordPress 2.5 AJAX enabled the plugin to stop the...

WP-Flickr is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add photos from Flickr to your posts, without leaving the WordPress write post / page editor. Browse your Flickr photostream, sets or favorites and select to insert into the page. As part of a recent project, we needed to develop a custom WordPress plugin for our...