Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)
When writing unit tests, it’s often desirable to ‘mimick’ a backend call to web service or database (without using the real thing backend). Ideally you need this to be quick and easy to do. One way of doing this is to use mock or double objects. This article discusses their use with PHPUnit (a unit […]
Web applications often have a requirement to log information about a request to a database. In a contrived example this could just be a global counter which attempts to amaze visitors to your site about how many requests you’ve handled in the last hour/day/week/month. One approach to doing this is to update a database each […]
We’ve finally published our Kashflow Android client – Kashdroid – which is now available on the Google Play store It’s available for free, and provides you with nearly all the functionality of the official web application – but integrates with your Android phone / tablet (e.g. address book sync, photo upload to receipts, maps/directions/navigation and quick […]
We’ve been busy writing a Kashflow Android app over the last few months; we think it’s pretty good, and would like to find a few beta testers – further information is available here
Our latest mobile app has just been finished and accepted by the customer (as version 1.0) – so congratulations to all concerned! It’s taken over 6 months of development. The application is used by engineers (so reports a listing of jobs available to them) and allows them to retrieve appropriate details and update job statuses […]
Tonight (2012/10/18), David will give a short (15ish minute) talk at the WooWeb meeting (Worcester, UK) covering mobile app development – specifically the advantages and disadvantages of developing using frameworks like PhoneGap or writing an app natively. Contents: Why PhoneGap? Disadvantages / Advantages of PhoneGap? Disadvantages / Advantages of Native development Example(s)
We think we’ve been fairly busy lately, so here’s a summary covering some of the things we’ve been up to – Released Android and iPhone apps (Food Hygiene – for ScoresOnTheDoors.org.uk). The Android release is now all native (so quite responsive and fast); both have new graphics and an improved method of searching. (See the iTunes […]
Given our current workload (which shows no sign of diminishing) combined with the fact that our focus has moved towards “Web and Mobile Application Development” (PHP, iOS and Android) — away from “Web Development and PHP Training” — we have decided to withdraw the PHP training courses we offer. As a small company there are […]
TechRepublic have an interesting article covering whether Software Developers should face legal action if their coding results in (presumably exploited) security vulnerabilities. Given that most security breaches result in data loss (for individuals) – fines from the ICO ought to be relevant – Tesco being investigated by the ICO Belfast NHS Trust fined £225,000 by the […]