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What is a Fractional CTO? In today's digital landscape, nearly every business is, in some way, a software business. Regardless of whether you're in property management, manufacturing, healthcare, or trading, software solutions have become integral to staying competitive and efficient. While most companies have an "IT person" to handle networking, email, and general PC maintenance,...

Time moves on. Technology moves on. Your business is growing and adapting to the ever-changing world we work in and sooner or later you’re going to be faced with some serious discussions and decisions to make around aging or legacy software systems and infrastructure. In this article we’ll take a look at the impact of...

Still working with a paper-based system? You're doing your customers and your business a disservice! The transition from paper to digital is not just a trend, but a necessity. Often referred to as Paperless Migration, digitising your paper trail can lead to increased efficiency, reduced clutter, and enhanced security. As well as the obvious internal...

Everyone's talking about ChatGPT, a language model optimised for conversations. In a shameless attempt to ride the gravy train, I asked ChatGPT for some help in writing a blog post. Me: I need to write a blog post ASAP. Can you help? ChatGPT: Sure, I'd be happy to help! What would you like the blog...

Back in 2018 we talked about how we make software development work remotely, and about our tentative efforts to embrace Cornwall's software development community. Four years ago is a long time ago by any stretch, but in these difficult times it seems like an eternity. How have we at Go Tripod been affected and how...

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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...