Understanding CORS and Pre-Flight
Ok so this isn’t a new thing, but most developers have been thwarted by this at some point for anyone finding this I’m going to explain it in plain english as I’ve lost count of the times I need to...
View ArticleLiving in Angular Ionic RC land and the state of Frontend
For the past few months i’ve been upgrading an Ionic v1 app to v2, watching at the sidelines as a new bread of web applications take form. As a developer trying to use these platforms it’s been...
View ArticleUsing logrotate with your Laravel projects
Hard disk filled up by logs? Often overlooked until it becomes an issue. It can become a cycle of death for a server, application errors occur > write to log file > disk space full. There’s a...
View ArticleBrand management and proposition development
Maximise the impact of your offer by positioning your business, product or service correctly Use a proven framework, including brand values, to help focus your decisions Stand out from the crowd and...
View ArticleFully css carousel cross browser?
I was asked to see if I could develop a carousel using nothing other than CSS. Firstly it depends how you define a carousel if it’s infinite loops then I think this can’t really be achieved through CSS...
View ArticleAWS Opsworks review one year on
For the past year I’ve been using opsworks on AWS. I’m not sure who this product is aimed at but clearly people who are experts in Chef automation and or have deep knowledge of AWS from querying...
View ArticleClapham & Collinge – Legal services for Buy to Let customer review
We recently used Clapham & Collinge in Norwich to purchase a buy to let via a Ltd Company. The service they provided was thorough however there was some issues throughout the process, and we did...
View ArticleHow to get a persistent unique device ID in Ionic for iOS
Simple way to store uuid as device.uuid. Using the Native cordova device plugin gives inconsistent results in iOS. Not only this it changes every time the app is installed. Might be a rare case for...
View ArticleHMO Renovation cost for large victorian terrace house
Converting a 6-bed HMO in 2018 We wanted to take on this project because the house had already been converted to some extent and some other work recently completed: Fire system in place with fire doors...
View ArticleResetting your Ionic project when all else fails
Sometime you get un-expected errors, missing plugins etc. A simple way to reset everything to afresh is this: Delete the app’s node_modules/ Delete the app’s package-lock file (if present)...
View ArticleUsing WordPress as a CMS for Magento2
There’s already integrations out there like FishPig that integrate WordPress into Magento2 however what I’m talking about here is a more tightly integrated website where WordPress serves all the...
View ArticleMagento2 breadcrumbs on a product page
By default Magento2 does not show the product page breadcrumb. Refer to this answer by nuwas for a decent breadcrumb implementation....
View ArticleMagento 2 checkout customisation
I recently did some extensive layout/styling to the checkout in Magento 2 EE this included adding additional steps, removing steps and customising the experience into collapsible sections, plenty of...
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