Tag: Programming

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A new era for continuous testing

Blog — Sam Griffin — 16 June 2020

We all know how important testing is right? But it’s a chore! Or is it? At the cutting edge of modern software engineering practices, we now find a pool of…

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How to improve your WordPress security in 2020

Blog — Dan C and Dan M — 3 June 2020

WordPress can be a remarkable platform. However, it doesn’t necessarily have the best security record. If you cast about on the internet, you’ll soon find some horror stories about WordPress…

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How to speed up your WordPress site, fast!

Blog — Dan M — 27 May 2020

Here at BrightMinded, we use WordPress for two main reasons: our clients love it as a Content Management System (CMS), and as developers, we can extend it in pretty much…

Making a multiplayer web game with Socket IO

Presentation — David H — 15 April 2020

Before the lockdown, David presented to the team how he has used WebSockets for his multiplayer web game. Find out how.

Issues to consider when localising software

Blog — Bradley and Kaia — 26 February 2020

Have you ever landed on a website where the target audience isn’t people from your country or culture? And how long did it take you to realise this? In all…

An intro to TypeScript

Presentation — David Y — 27 November 2019

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.

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An intro to some web technologies

Presentation — Bradley — 20 November 2019

Watch Bradley as he gives the team an intro to Netlify and Netlify CMS, and 11ty, a few web technologies most of them are not familiar with yet.

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Google Analytics for developers

Tutorial — Bradley — 31 July 2019

If you are developing software for external users, you are highly likely to need to take account of Google Analytics. If so, Bradley may have some tips for you.

Why don't AIs do rubber ducking?

Discussion — David Y, Cristiano, Dan M and Dan C — 26 June 2019

Following on from Bradley’s blog on “Rubber Duck Debugging” and a talk by David Y on “Tools for problem solving”, a discussion ensued in the office on whether you could…

Back to Basics

Blog — Cristiano — 1 May 2019

Someone: “Hey, check out this juicy programming problem!” Dan Cowan: “I can think of at least three ways of solving it.” Does that mean Dan’s a genius? Perhaps (if you…

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