The position has been filled for the role of Administrative Assistant. We would like to thank all applicants for their applications, and welcome you to keep an eye on our Twitter and Facebook for any upcoming vacancies. Loop Foundry, a software development consultancy based in Hobart, is looking for a…
August Service Changes
One of our project managers, Jack, is going on holiday between the 29th of July and the 13th of August, and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on whether you’re the one spending two weeks lying on beaches in Vietnam) he will be unavailable to respond to any urgent support queries. Whilst…
New Office 365 Products Available
We are delighted to announce that we are now a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider, which means that in addition to providing Office 365 online services as we always have, we can now offer you the complete range of Microsoft cloud solutions products: Exchange Online Office 365 (includes Exchange online and…
Free Internet Marketing Training from Google
Ever feel like you want to get started bringing your business into the 21st century, but aren’t sure how you should go about it? Google are now offering a free course introducing the basics of search engine optimisation, search engine marketing, web analytics, eCommerce, and social media. They want to…
We’re re-branding as Loop Foundry
You may have noticed a few changes over the last few weeks… Say hello to Loop Foundry. We’re still the same people doing the same work, but we’re doing it with a different (and better, and easier to spell) name and identity. Whilst you’ll still see The Foo Project in…
Lessons Learned: Migrating Access to SQL Server
Recently we’ve been involved with transitioning an internal business database from a split Access database (one Access file holding the UI, another Access file holding the data tables) to a Access front-end with an SQL Server back-end. The purpose of this is to eventually migrate away from Access to an…
New Website Theme! (Available On GitHub)
This website’s new theme is a slightly-modified version of WordPress’ built-in “Twenty Seventeen” theme. We’ve modified the footer and front page to be a little simpler than the base theme. We’ve just released our changes to the theme as a child theme, and made them available on GitHub as “TwentyFoo“….
10 Things To Look For In A Software Development Consultancy
Photo courtesy of HackNY. 1. Technical Ability First of all, figure out to the best of your ability whether the firm can actually do the work. This is by far the hardest aspect to judge – most software developers don’t even know themselves whether they can do something (or indeed…
The Basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
A lot of people consider search engine optimisation a black art, something completely unintelligible to us mere mortals. That’s not true. Whilst some of the more advanced techniques really are magic, 90% of SEO boils down into one simple statement: If you make your website better for a human reader,…
Integrating IIS with JIRA or Confluence Results in HTTP 500 Error
While I was setting up our internal JIRA and Confluence instances, I wanted to give them “proper” URLs, such as jira.fooproject.com and confluence.fooproject.com. We use Microsoft’s IIS web server for all of our other websites, so we wanted to use this as a reverse proxy. Atlassian has instructions for doing…