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We recently moved to a great new office near Spike Island, the SS Great Britain and plenty of water. The space has worked out brilliantly for us, here’s a quick look at what we’ve done with it so far. Still a bit of painting to do!
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This post will take a scenario which might be useful for small businesses and shows a possible solution.
Keywords: FBML, FBJS, profile tab, fan page tab, landing page
FBML stands for FaceBook Markup Language. It is a modified subset of HTML.
FaceBook has two main types of environments: FBML and iframe. These environments require different way of programming [...]
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Here at Simpleweb we’ve got a rack of commodity servers in The Bunker up in Reading.
Each server just has a single, standard SATA disk. But, the mean time between failure (MTBF) on a SATA disk is at best a year or two. (Believe me, I’ve learnt this the hard way.)
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Here at Simpleweb we use Python and the lovely event-driven network framework Twisted for some core applications which power our social media searching suite MediaGenius.
One of my favourite Twisted patterns is the combination of the powerful twisted.internet.defer.Deferred with collections.defaultdict.
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We have recently been looking at various technologies to scale one of our most resource hungry search applications. We have gone over quite a few options including Cassandra, Hadoop and Distributed Solr. One that quite got my attention was “Elastic Search” which was amazingly easy to use. No schema definitions, automatic node discovery, very simple [...]
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We love it when we get an amusing captcha…. perhaps it’s just our childish sense of humour!
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I had a fun trip out of the office yesterday to go and install our new servers in to their new home in ‘The Bunker‘.
We have so far had excellent help and support both from The Bunker and Cogent our IP Transit provider. Not only during the sales and setup process but also with our [...]
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We’ve just launched a competition for one of our favourite clients LoveHoney.co.uk
They’re giving away tickets to the most popular UK festivals this summer.
Our Link2Win platform that promotes sharing on social networks is powering the competition. The premise is quite simple, you enter, share and then anyone that enters from your page will give you more [...]
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At the end of last year we invested heavily in to moving our hosting to the cloud with EC2 and Rightscale. Not a ‘cheap’ option by any stretch but we hoped it would provide a really good foundation to all of the exciting stuff we have planned for SWM and Media Genius.
Unfortunately, it has been [...]
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