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Catch up, social networking, new staff …

Jeremy Coates — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:37:56 +0000

It’s been ages since I’ve blogged, partly since I’ve continued to keep up with twitter.com, which is a little like blogging but in text message size bites – some call it your life between blog posts. We’ve included a feed on the right hand side of this site or follow me or Priscilla directly.

Along with twitter, we’ also got into Facebook over the summer, it’s a little addictive and generally more fun than watching the telly! However, if some people are to be believed it could turn us all into narcissists!

We’ve also another member of staff to welcome aboard, Mathew Griffin who joined us in July, to help grow our PHP programming team. Mat’s learning how we do things round here by diving in at the deep end – it’s a good job he likes it that way as we’ve been continuing to work non-stop on a major invoicing and payroll system. So Mat is now brushing up on ZendFramework, YUI, ADOdb and XTemplate – so far so good, I just have to remember it’s a tall order to get that lot under your belt

Anyway that’s the catch up, well almost…

We’re hiring

Jeremy Coates — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:09 +0000

In case you’ve not noticed on our main site, we’re hiring – a PHP web developer (OOP).

New Staff – again!

Jeremy Coates — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:34:00 +0000

As usual things are busy round here, however, things are getting better since we’ve added two new staff again. Firstly at the beginning of last month, Phil Wastell joined us as a Web Developer and has already started to have direct impact on my over-heavy work load. Phil already knows quite a bit of PHP, xHTML and CSS and is starting to get his head round the approaches we use on top of those technologies such as OOP, Zend Framework and YUI. Additionally, at the beginning of this month, Emma Parker joined us, initially on a part-time basis, as an Account Manager – this should over time help us to keep in touch with our clients more, so if that’s you, expect to be hearing from Emma in due course.

Alongside our own clients we continue to service other firms in the New Media sector, especially where they don’t have the high-level technical skills in-house to deliver application level projects. This has recently resulted in a situation where we’ve signed an out-sourcing deal with a local marketing and design house. We now undertake their high-end projects on behalf of their clients – they get to provide best-of-breed approaches to them and the code developed is sound internally rather than creating a bunch of maintenance headaches as previously. For us it means we drive the direction of the code used and know things are backed up properly and we can keep the version control of the sites developed under a tighter reign. I’ve got a meeting next month that may result in a similar approach by an SEO / Accessability company from the South – so you never know, might be announcing more growth soon

New Staff

Jeremy Coates — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:11:00 +0000

We’ve just taken on a new member of staff Rachel Williams as a designer / coach. This action should help out lots round here – things have been way too busy for a long while (hence the scarcity of blog entries!). Welcome aboard Rachel.

Her role is partly design (especially web design) based and partly as a business / life coach and so it’s not the usual skill mix you’d find in a single person. However find that person we did, as Rachel is a fully qualified life coach and has done quite a bit of design work – she’s now got to learn how we do things (HTML templating with XTemplate! ). Hopefully there’ll be many new developments as things get settled in.