What we were trying to do A few months ago we were required to move the hosting for one of our major client’s products. We were required to migrate the website from being hosted from one of our on-premise…

How we’re using ‘crimeboarding’ methods to map our development work What is crimeboarding? A term not often heard in relation to software development, ‘crimeboarding’ is a process we use here at Code Computerlove to map out a piece of…

What is a Goldfish Bowl discussion In a Goldfish Bowl discussion, you arrange several chairs in the middle of the room facing inwards. Around the edge of the inner chairs you arrange as many chairs as needed for your group.…

TL;DR - This guide explains how to stop YouTube slowing your pages down by only loading the video thumbnail image unless a user clicks on the video. We've provided the relevant HTML and CSS below, or you can just…

Code Computer Love Developers have recently been actively helping to improve open source frameworks and platforms we use. Too often, Developers are quick to point out problems or bugs with open source products, without looking to help fix root causes…

Visual Regression testing in the last few years has proven to become an additional pillow of comfort when testing that a site is operating correctly in regards to the User Interface. By being able to take a set of reference…

A few days ago I found myself with a problem to do with background images used for page headings that had content over them. The issue was that we had images with 100% widths and we wanted to avoid, where…

Apologies for that terrible pun. But yes, we're back from the hack. Some of us are still recovering from the week-end's sleep deprivation, but we're all very happy with how the hack went. Only one of our teams made it…

The event is tomorrow, our 2 teams are finalising their preparations. Team "it's just a name" will be going for the Evestor challenge, and team "Nuts Hack" will take on the CoOp one. But what have you prepared, exactly ? We've…

It's this time of the year again - we say goodbye to the summer as temperatures and leaves are quickly falling down, we get the blankets out, we turn the heating on again, our heads are filled with Halloween and…

I recently found myself looking to create a way of handling friendly error pages for an MVC project. Having done this several times in the past I know how inconsistent and problematic this can actually be. So I decided to…

Context Azure WebJobs allow you to create the equivalent of a continuously running Windows Service or a one off/scheduled task (depending on how you configure it), hosted in Azure using its main strength, the Web Apps. Each Web App…