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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!

This post was originally published on our Technical Director's personal blog. Amazon's cloud offering, AWS, provides a wealth of resources for developers and infrastructure engineers. In this article, I'll show how Amazon Cognito can be used to record user preferences and data without having to set up a server or database. I'll build a small...

In years past, Google was renowned for its 20% time - a developer was allowed to allocate one day a week to working on ideas that weren't necessarily related to their normal Googley projects. Some of these ideas were even spun off into new properties for Google, and some were incorporated into existing internal and...

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.

Ok, so we know access to business intelligence is crucial to all those involved in making a business successful. This applies not only to the CEO but all the way down to the telephone operators and order pickers. Everyone needs measureable data to understand how well (or not so well) they're doing. At Go Tripod...

Development Gems (Geek Alert) During our Ruby On Rails development process at Go Tripod we’re always trying to streamline our workflow. We've tested plenty of gems supporting our everyday programming work. Some of them were interesting - but unfortunately not handy in real work, but we found a few to be really useful. For those...

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...