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Insights
News, thoughts and musings from the studio.
We’re passionate about our growth and knowledge, and we want to share what we learn with the world. Read through our stories, our thoughts, our experiments and our musings!
How we amplified our campaign with AMP
How we used AMP to make our latest campaign ⚡️ fast!
Reducing the cost of context switching
Having multiple projects in flight at once is a normal part of agency life. However, it can become problematic if these projects cannot be organised into discrete chunks of work due to their concurrently impending deadlines.
Captain's Log
How is your website/API doing at this precise moment in time? Is it up? Is it behaving as expected? Is it on fire? So many people think it’s okay to release software into the wild without even considering these questions - maybe ignorance is bliss after all. But seeing as data is such a trending topic in the tech scene, why do we continue to ignore the pitfalls of inadequate logging?
Why I attack my colleagues with spears
Email is one of the primary delivery mechanisms for malicious code, such as the WannaCry ransomware attack, so this is what we do to try and protect our business.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Is your business ready for GDPR? Do you know how it's going to affect you? Make sure you're compliant by May 2018.
Designing interfaces in a world of AI
How will we interact with information in the near future, and how can we design interfaces to it?
How do you actually make technology work?
We were recently invited to speak at a Connected Manufacturing event at the Digital Media Centre in Barnsley to share our experiences of how we have applied technology within the manufacturing industry.
Engaging with Schools as a Business: Not Just CSR, But Two-Way Skills Development
How much of what you learned in secondary school do you use in your job today? Now I don't mean social skills, time-management or other general foundational life skills: I mean real knowledge that you use on a daily basis and can refer to in applications and interviews. Whatever your answer, I can guarantee that when the students of a University Technical College (UTC) are at the same points in their careers, the answer they give is going to be quite different.
Continuous Integration and Deployments using AppVeyor
The process of building and deploying code should be an integral part of every development team. Here's an insight into ours...