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"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.