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Whilst working on client projects we often find useful bits of information out. Where possible we blog about that information to pass on our knowledge. Below are some of our most recent entries.

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Recent entries

C4DI and the magical coffee beans

Thursday, September 05 2013

The importance of C4DI and having coffee breaks!

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Designers - how far should their coding knowledge go?

Thursday, May 30 2013

Ok, I'm going to get this out of the way now. The title of this blog post is deliberately trying to get your attention. So why am I doing this?

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Twitter Bootstrap - It's not all roses

Friday, June 22 2012

Having just dropping into a conversation on Twitter about Twitter Bootstrap, I decided to give my thoughts about it, which has not turned into this blog post

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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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  1. Blog title
    C4DI and the magical coffee beans
    Post Date
    Thursday, September 05 2013
  1. Blog title
    Designers - how far should their coding knowledge go?
    Post Date
    Thursday, May 30 2013
  1. Blog title
    Twitter Bootstrap - It's not all roses
    Post Date
    Friday, June 22 2012
  1. Blog title
    Keep your requests thin
    Post Date
    Friday, January 06 2012
  1. Blog title
    Storing a Product Catalog for eCommerce with a Document Database
    Post Date
    Monday, November 21 2011
  1. Blog title
    Success for Incentive Maker - Hull Digital Post
    Post Date
    Friday, July 08 2011
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