Blog Tag: In depth

Thoughts, insights all hot off the virtual press.

Blog | 30 March 2023

Drupal vs WordPress vs Joomla: What is the best CMS to power a digital business in 2023 and beyond?

We take a deep dive and compare all three platforms.
WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla comparison table
Full Story
Presentation | 29 June 2022

A developer’s perspective on Google’s Core Web Vitals

Our own Bradley gives his perspective on best practices to ensure your site scores well in Google’s Core Web Vitals.
Screenshot from Google's page speed insights
Full Story
Blog | 31 March 2021

How to prepare for Google’s Core Web Vitals update

What are Google’s Core Web Vitals, what’s changing, and how can you make sure your website is ready?
Google Core Wev Vitals article image
Full Story
Presentation | 17 February 2021

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) – an introduction

Our AI team presents a popular unsupervised machine learning technique that aims at extracting relevant topics from large sets of documents, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA).
Full Story
Presentation | 09 September 2020

Effective testing

Our own Bradley covers all aspects of software testing, focusing on unexpected inputs, security, developer falsehoods, browser support and accessibility.
Slide showing overview of all aspects of software testing
Full Story
Presentation | 15 April 2020

Making a multiplayer web game with Socket IO

Before the lockdown, David presented to the team how he has used WebSockets for his multiplayer web game. Find out how.
Screen showing multiplayer game
Full Story
Presentation | 12 February 2020

The near-duplicates problem and novelty detection by fruit flies

Learn from a fruit fly how to spot near-duplicates in your database. Our CTO, Cristiano, explains how. If you are interested, have a look at the original fly Bloom filter paper by Dasgupta, Sheehan, Stevens and Navlakha.
Bar plot with errors on Bloom filters, LSBF and fly Bloom filters
Full Story
Blog | 18 December 2019

Existential risks – part 2

So far, advances in technology have been largely positive and improved human life in countless ways. Will future innovations continue to be positive or are there reasons to believe they could be catastrophic? In this final part we will look at Nick Bostrom’s view on Artificial Intelligence in some more detail.
Images of robots in female form
Full Story
Blog | 11 December 2019

Existential risks

So far, advances in technology have been largely positive and improved human life in countless ways. Will future innovations continue to be positive or are there reasons to believe they could be catastrophic? In this two-part series we will look at some of the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom and examine risks which could threaten humanity’s very existence.
Niklas Bostrom at University of Oxford
Full Story
Presentation | 27 November 2019

An intro to TypeScript

Watch our own David Y introduce the team to TypeScript, an open source programming language maintained by Microsoft that is a typed superset of JavaScript and compiles to plain JavaScript.
TypeScript logo
Full Story
Presentation | 20 November 2019

An introduction to Netlify

Watch Bradley give the team an introduction to Netlify, Netlify CMS, and 11ty, some new web technologies that are gaining in popularity.
Image of Paige Taylor Photography website
Full Story
Presentation | 30 October 2019

History and evolution of Acid House

We don’t just know a lot about software development. Our in-house (electronic) music expert, co-founder Dan Murray, was asked to give us some insights into Acid House. Here is what he had to say.
The Roland TB 303 slide
Full Story