When Internet Explorer “Compatibility Mode” Bites: Escaping the Intranet Zone

We’ve had a number of clients recently hit by severe rendering issues when viewing their website in Internet Explorer (up to and including version 11). This normally only occurs within the company…

Avoiding SSL Errors & Downtime with CloudFlare

As a long-time, paid-up user and CloudFlare advocate, I’ve discovered several gotchas with the way that SSL certificates are issued on their platform. I’m posting this to hopefully assist others, and encourage CloudFlare to improve their interface…

How to perform a mass update in Airtable

A quick tip for those managing large amounts of data in Airtable

Concrete5 Permissions Woes — not ready for the enterprise yet?

We’re a digital agency and chose Concrete 5.7 as our platform for some recent projects aimed at the medium-sized enterprise (20–200 employees).

We’ve been reasonably happy with Concrete5’s ease of use, with point-and-click editing…

What is the opposite of the .htaccess mod_rewrite [QSA] flag?

What do you do when you want to redirect:

/old-url?a=1
to
/new-url

Using a standard RewriteRule you end up getting sent to /new-url?a=1 as it appends the querystring…

Challenges of running Concrete5 on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (AWS EB)

We’ve recently attempted to get Concrete5 running on Elastic Beanstalk which is basically an automated array of EC-2 instances that scale up and down as necessary. Because Concrete5 is run across multiple…

Should I learn AngularJS or ReactJS? (Hint: neither)

As a senior web developer and technical lead, I’ve also been questioning which framework to emphasize within our team.

Both Angular and React seemed to be very promising, but both actually introduce different pain…

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought that one of the great benefits of Docker containers were that you could get (much of) the flexibility and portability of Virtual Machines without the overhead of running a complete guest OS (kernel, networking stack etc.); as such your app can experience the performance improvements of running closer to the bare metal.

Everything we learnt at UX Australia 2017

‘If websites are not led by content, designs break, timelines stretch and users lose.’…