Whilst we’re still in the planning stage, it’s time to let you in on a little secret… Loop Foundry is looking to expand nationally in the coming few months! There’s a lot to do, and one of the key features of having a presence in a city is having an…
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…
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…
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…