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Keep your requests thin
Friday, January 06 2012
When creating websites or web apps we give due care and attention to making sure pages load fast enough. We minimise our CSS, JS and compress images as much as reasonable to make sure page load times are kept to a minimum. How often though do we think about the impact of what's going on during a server response? Sometimes it can be a simple contact form submission which sends an email, sometimes it can be way more complex making large DB updates, image processing and calls to external APIs. These tasks need to be done, but do they need to be done there and then, or can they be off-loaded?
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Storing a Product Catalog for eCommerce with a Document Database
Monday, November 21 2011
We have recently started developing our own eCommerce system that we hope to role out over a number of up coming projects. In the past we have always used things like Spree and Magento, but we have always had niggling issues with other systems.
Our overriding goal is to create a flexible system, that we can extend as we need for different projects. This blog post aims to cover our initial thoughts on how to handle modelling the product data.
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Success for Incentive Maker - Hull Digital Post
Friday, July 08 2011
We were very kindly invited by Jon Moss to do a guest post for the Hull Digital website to talk about Incentive Maker. We jumped at the opportunity and decided to talk about our experience of using "The cloud" to build a cost effective, scalable product.
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SASS, Compass and some clarity
Thursday, June 16 2011
Having recently read HOW TO: Get Started With the COMPASS CSS Framework, I realised there is still a lot of confusion about SASS and Compass and why developers should be using them. The Mashable article is very brief and the comments below it highlight show some of the confusion surrounding the tools.
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The League of Extraordinary Developers : Year One
Friday, April 01 2011
A year ago today, The League of Extraordinary Developers officially opened it's doors. I thought I'd take this opportunity to write a personal blog post to talk about how things have gone in year one and to thank a few people for helping year one to be a success.
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