Hash tags are coming to Facebook

After lots of speculation, Facebook have confirmed that they will be introducing hashtag functionality to their platform.

Git based development -> staging -> live workflow

I've been trying to get my head around a simple git based workflow for deploying from development to staging to live server environments. I found this post extremely useful in achieving a basic development -> live workflow, but adding in a staging step is very useful if you want to…

Changes to OpenCart payment’s controller inline with WorldPay updates

If you use WorldPay to process your payments on your OpenCart shop you may have recently received emails from them about updates to their system.For a client running OpenCart v. 1.5.1.3.1 I've just made the following changes to their WorldPay controller, so as to call to a different WorldPay URL.…

The closure of Posterous is just the latest in a long line of acquisitions follo

If you use Posterous, you should already know that the blog network is closing it’s doors on the 30th April 2013.

Real world shops competing online – how about a window shopping tax?

I was shocked to read about an Australian shop who are charging customers $5 for coming into their shop, looking around, and leaving empty handed. However, one line in the article caught my a

The new way to discover music – Twitter #music

Twitter have launched their new music discovery app and website – just over a week after closing down acquired site We Are Hunted.

Gov.uk named winner of Design of the Year 2013

The Design of the Year 2013 awards were announced on Tuesday and for the first time ever a website won the prestigious title of “design of the year”.

WordPress security alert!!

WordPress have been hit recently by attackers targeting the "admin" user account.The incredibly popular website software is used by millions of websites around the world and it's important to keep your installation of WordPress up to date.The people attacking WordPress currently seem to be aiming their attack at both stand…

How to get around Duplicate Content issues with Cloudfront CDN

Cloudfront is Amazon's Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering and provides web developers with an easy to use and cost effective way of letting people access content from a variety of regions around the world with the aim of speeding up website delivery. This isn't a guide to using Cloudfront -…

How to add special offers, discounts and vouchers in OpenCart

There are various ways you can offer discounts to your customers with OpenCart - you can do it via "Specials", "Discounts" or "Coupons" (voucher codes).Specials:Specials let you mark an item as being reduced in price - depending on your theme, this might show the old price with a line through…

Disney breaking copyright?

I’ve just read a post by Katie Woodger published on her Tumblr blog about an hour ago and it appears that Disney are using a drawing of hers without her permission.

Google’s semantic web needs to be careful

We've just had a conversation about Gilbey's Gin, after a client of ours did some work for them.So, the first thing I did was Google "Gilbey's Gin", which brought back a result showing me a photo of Sir Walter Gilbey, along with a photo of him and some info about…