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Using Let's Encrypt for redirect domains on a load balanced site – A collaborative effort between Dev & Ops

By Matthew Hughes – 25 April 2018

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…

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Crimeboarding

By Adam Pendlebury – 17 April 2018 – Software Engineering, Development, CodeLife

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…

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Make Your YouTube Embeds Load Faster and Display Responsively

By Moujib Aghrout – 22 June 2017 – Front-End Development, Design

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…

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Scaling background images with content

By Mark Owen – 09 December 2016 – Front-End Development, Software Engineering

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…

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MVC Friendly Error Pages

By Mark Owen – 05 October 2016 – Software Engineering

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…

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Is your logging a complete waste of everyone's time?

By Andy Grant – 30 August 2016 – Software Engineering, DevOps

Most people are first introduced to logging in the course of debugging errors. Usually because whatever they're debugging does not have access to standard out. The logging is kept for production because it is useful. From there the logging of…

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Gemba: Go see, ask why, show respect

By Amy Murray – 23 August 2016 – Delivery, Leadership

Since beginning the new chapter of Code’s journey, we've been looking at how we can make our business routines and measurement more in line with our business vision to become a Lean Studio. This has meant evaluating routines and…

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Email Templates with Handlebars

By Matthew Claffey – 18 August 2016 – Front-End Development, Acquisition-Conversion

Writing email templates can be a pain, every email client comes with its own problems that can be a nightmare to fix. Some of the issues I frequently come across while building them are: Fixing an issue for one email…

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Routing to ASP.Net MVC ChildActions

By Mark Owen – 01 August 2016 – Software Engineering

As part of modern development practices to try and reuse code and functionality, we are constructing new website pages from components rather than building full pages each time. The way we have chosen to do this in ASP.Net MVC…

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The journey to working at Code

By Moujib Aghrout – 19 July 2016 – CodeLife, Talent

Quick Introduction (actually not so quick) Second year of university, studying at Manchester Metropolitan University, upcoming networking event organised for students looking for internships or graduate jobs, had CVs in hand, updated my LinkedIn, dressed as smart/casual and well…

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Manchester Youth Hack

By Simon Chiu – 20 June 2016 – CodeLife, Talent

Code are delighted to be hosting the Manchester Youth Hack coding competition this weekend (25th-26th June). Set over two days, the event aims to develop digital skills by providing challenges for teams of 13 to 18 year olds to solve.…

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Finding nodes in Umbraco

By Mark Owen – 15 June 2016 – Software Engineering

As part of my day to day working with Umbraco I often find myself having to navigate through the Umbraco back office to setup data types, document types and content to make use of those types. Also, and in fact…

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