MySQL Indexing Explained
In the time we've been assisting people with hosting their web applications, the most common reason we've seen for performance problems has been missing or incorrectly used database indexes, so...
Tutorials
We like to help people so we try to publish useful tutorials about how to use our products, open source libraries or how to accomplish various design & development tasks.
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Reducing style repetition with Sass Maps and RGBA
Earlier this week, I posted this pen on Codepen as a means of documenting a few interesting things I had learnt whilst building a multi-theme application. The pen got a...
Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 2)
Last week, I posted part one of my Ruby Tips & Tricks for people new to Ruby. In part two, we've got a whole new set of fantastic things you may find useful:
Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 1)
Every day I use a huge number of different Ruby features and I take them for granted. It's not until you are thrown into the world of PHP or vanilla...
Encrypting & signing stuff in Ruby
Securing your communications between parts of your infrastructure has never been more important. For encryption, in most cases, you can rely on normal SSL on HTTP connections (HTTPS) however what...
Setting up an office network
Our office connectivity is relatively simple and pretty standard for most offices, so I thought I would share our configuration and how we’ve set everything up. I thought a blog...