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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…