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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...

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...