Gravitywell at (not in) the Bath Half Marathon

Posted by Simon Bos on 24th March 2011

Bath Half photos for blog

Stuart and I visited the Bath Half Marathon 2011 recently. It's quite an emotional experience for people and for some its a huge achievement. Lots are running for charities of course and so the day leaves you with quite a buzz. We've promised that we'll be running ourselves next year...

Gravitywell has developed the new website for Bath Half and we'll be adding new features soon.

Click through for some photos I took at the race.

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Free iPhone wallpapers - Thailand Edition

Posted by Simon Bos on 23rd March 2011

iphone wallpapers 3

A couple of us have returned from some well-earned rest in Thailand. Here is a new set of free iPhone wallpapers; a kind of holiday gift!

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Dependancy Injection and Unit Testing

Posted by Stuart Forster on 22nd March 2011

Dependence injection isn't a new concept but is not yet widespread throughout the PHP community. One of the large advantages to using dependancy injection for objects is when coupled with Unit Testing. By injecting the dependancy as apposed to the object managing its dependancies itself allows your Unit Tests to test the object, and not any of the dependancies.

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Zend Framework: Disabling the Layout and View Renderer

Posted by Stuart Forster on 16th March 2011
Tagged: zend framework, PHP

Zend Framework Logo (Black)

One of the most common things I do when working with the Zend Framework is disabling the view and/or layout inside a controller (or for a specific action). I always forget how to do this. Here's how I do it...

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Using Selenium test tool in our site tests

Posted by Mike Caisey on 4th March 2011
Tagged: TDD, testing

I've recently incorporated the Selenium Java based test tool into our testing suite for some of our projects. “Selenium Remote Control allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.” Taken from http://seleniumhq.org

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SEO: Google changes results for 11.8% of queries

Posted by Stuart Forster on 28th February 2011
Tagged: SEO, Google

Google has recently improved their search results algorithm which has noticeably impacted 11.8% of queries.

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PHP South West meet in the Golden Guinea

Posted by Mike Caisey on 10th February 2011
Tagged: Bristol
Last night we attended the PHP South West meet in the Golden Guinea, Redcliffe, Bristol.

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Mind Relaxation with a Silent Alarm

Posted by Mike Caisey on 7th January 2011
A tool for giving your mind a rest to keep mental fatigue at bay. Whilst not annoying everyone else in the office.

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What is HTML5?

Posted by Simon Bos on 6th January 2011

WTF HTML5 Focus

Continuing last year's penchant for infographics, here is one that helps explain what HTML5 is and why we should be interested.

Our policy is to keep working it into websites carefully so that older browsers can still cope.

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Hacking your passwords

Posted by Mike Caisey on 17th December 2010
Tagged: Security
Stop using the password password!

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