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Agile scrum project management spreadsheet 16 May 2012 | 04:43 am
I few months ago we went through the usual "are we using the best tools" paranoia in order to maintain decent efficiency in our working environment. Generally speaking we came out quite well this tim...
Converting Fixed Width Layout To A Responsive Design 26 Mar 2012 | 08:20 pm
Responsive Web Design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behaviour and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. Rather than build...
Developing With jQuery Mobile Tweaks And Tips 24 Mar 2012 | 03:25 am
We recently decided to use the jQuery Mobile Touch-Optimized web framework to build our brand new mobile site. We thought it would therefore be of some value to document some tweaks and tips we discov...
Building For Mobile - jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch Framework Comparison 24 Mar 2012 | 12:34 am
The developers here at Solid State wanted to determine which of the latest touch-optimized web frameworks would be best suited for our mobile website offerings. In this article we compare jQuery Mobil...
Talent acquisitions hurt everyone 14 Mar 2012 | 02:56 am
If you are into reading between the lines of press releases, there's a really juicy one over at Posterous. They just got snapped up by Twitter, which is great. No doubt the equity owners are secur...
BlackBerry is Bust 22 Feb 2012 | 11:53 pm
About two years ago I sat down and learnt how to write simple Android applications. Coming from 10 years of web development experience, it was pretty insightful having to re-learn multi-threading, net...
What Apple, and the industry, need to do about mobile privacy 11 Feb 2012 | 03:58 am
Oh dear oh dear. The mobile application developers dirty little secret, the one that no one really likes to talk about, is going to be mainstream news this week. For those that have missed it, iOS s....
Social media in your Xmas party? 31 Jan 2012 | 12:47 am
This year we are attempting to be a bit more innovative with our "Winter holiday season" party. Last year, we went bowling and then had a nice meal in a pub up in Islington. It was a great night and ...
Cookie Jar emails are now powered by SendGrid 17 Jan 2012 | 11:13 pm
From time to time we get asked what we do about email deliverability. Previously we tried to monitor blacklists, configure email servers and DNS records for maximum delivery and even look into conten...
Haystack wins a BIMA award! 2 Dec 2011 | 02:10 am
Well, we did it! We won the BIMA award for best business to business website in 2011 for the Haystack Online project. It was a pretty awesome party last night in Fabric. David Roberts, the lead deve...
