Techniques

Lightning talks are a brilliant way to harness and share internal and external expertise. If you’ve participated in a research or design sprint before, then you’ll know how powerful a good lightning talk can be. Done right, they should inspire and inform “how might we” brainstorming sessions, as well as help energise and align participants. read more about The power of lightning talks & how to get them right

Google is one of those companies that absolutely nails continuous improvement. A great example is how they approach improving the search results we encounter each time we use Google. read more about Google, Ranking Updates & What you can do

Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: June 2016. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Lean Blogs, Astronomer, David Cummings, First Round and Medium. Happy reading! read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: June 2016 Round-up

A significant security issue has been found within the code of most Drupal 7 installations and a patch has now been issued for versions below 7.32.  read more about Are you running Drupal 7.32 or lower?

With only 5 days to go to the grace period ends for complying with the updated EU Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive, here is our latest blog post on how to comply. read more about Assessing the invasiveness of your cookies

You have installed and configured your Symfony2 project, added the Entity classes, prepared everything for persisting them into a database and, bam, you end up with the following error message read more about Resolve a path error in Symfony2 when using MAMP under OSX Lion

We recently decided to rethink how we host this website. Since 2008 we’ve used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host our live and development websites as well as all of our other tools and software. read more about Moving off of Amazon Web Services

Google have updated their SEO starter guide. We always recommend that clients familiarise themselves with this document as it provides a comprehensive and perhaps more importantly free overview of how best to approach search engine optimisation (SEO) from Google itself. read more about Google releases updated SEO starter guide

I’ve recently completed testing more efficient ways to share our bookmarks. Previously we shared links internally and with clients by writing a weekly round-up post on our blog. read more about Sharing Bookmarks: A better way

We are using Codepress for the administrator application within our custom CMS.  read more about How to fix Codepress not posting text entered into text area

After much research and testing we have settled on two approaches for delivering video content from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Each approach uses a different delivery protocol. read more about Deliver online video using Amazon Web Services

When working on an application that streams videos from S3 I noticed that whenever an S3 object has a space in its name it fails to stream. However, when streaming objects without spaces in the name it works fine. read more about JW Player, S3, Wowza and “Stream not found”

By default Symfony uses Sendmail mail transfer agent to prepare emails to be sent out by the system. If you want to use Exim instead, you need to take the following steps: read more about Setting up Symfony to use Exim instead of Sendmail

To install FFmpeg on CentOS 5.x follow the steps detailed in the following post: read more about Installing FFmpeg on CentOS 5.x

Install software needed by VMware Tools Note: you need to boot the 1-1 kernel from grub for this to work. Then: read more about Install VMWare Tools (Host – Windows, Guest – Linux)

If you want to checkout from your svn repository running on a remote host and on that host the port used for ssh is not the default (port 22), you can run into issues. As you cannot use a custom port in the following command: read more about Checkout SVN repository on another host using SSH on a custom port

Here’s a hints collection for a quick start with EC2 and S3. The following instructions are for a Windows environment. read more about Hints collection for a quick start with EC2 and S3

Are you trying to set up your hosting so that if you type a URL ending with a directory name it lists all the files in that directory (in the browser), but instead of the directory listing you get an Apache test page? read more about Apache test page instead of directory listing in Linux