URL Rewriting Hell
Recently we had a nightmare with URL rewriting. We weren’t trying to do anything particularly complicated; this kind of thing is well documented and has been done hundreds of times with other projects within the company. And somehow it nearly killed us and our project……
Image Morphing Innovation Day
At Redweb we are fortunate enough to be able to book “Innovation Days”. With these days we can do, more or less, anything we like, such as: investigate new technology, create code libraries, explore mobile platforms, build games, etc.
As long as it benefits the company, it’s ok.
For mine, I wanted to do something fun and learn how to use JQuery at the same time….
Adventures in 3d printing – part1
3d printing has been around for a while and it’s seriously impressive: motor manufacturers are printing entire car dashboards in one piece; defence organisations are printing fully working drone aircraft; confectionery companies are printing intricate delicacies with chocolate and hospitals are starting to print transplantable organs.
Energy Crisis
Professor Brian Cox [1] believes that we will soon be entering an energy crisis.
This crisis will be caused because, as emerging countries crack-on with emerging, there will be a huge increase in the demand for energy world-wide.
There won’t be enough energy to go around; not even if we build large numbers of new nuclear reactors, wind farms, etc, etc.
Howard Bayliss wonders how an energy crisis would affect the way we use the web?
Innovation at our heart
Winning the Econsultancy Innovation Award for Most Innovative Agency in 2011 was a memorable milestone. Winning it again in 2012 was even better. It’s fantastic to be recognised, and it cements the fact that our vision of an agency with innovation at its heart is becoming reality.
The future of Front End Development
After attending jQuery UK 2012, the first jQuery conference held in Europe, on Friday 10th February, I was inspired to write something about the current and future state of Front End Development and how it is shaped by all those involved.
Function Over Form
Howard Bayliss wonders if function always wins over form, or if it’s the other way around?
