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, then it will be better […]
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 this, which I dutifully followed. […]
We Have an Office!
The Foo Project is now in it’s first offices. We’ve taken up residence inside Parliament Co-working, a co-working space on Hobart’s waterfront. We’re pretty excited, the offices are well laid out and have everything a growing company like ours needs (Internet access and a kettle, basically)…
How to run a small company in Australia
One of our directors just wrote about his experiences handling the legal side of The Foo Project. Check it out!
Our New Website
You may have noticed some changes recently on our website. We’ve done a complete overhaul, with too many changes to mention, but here are some of the biggest: We’ve completely overhauled the appearance of our website (obviously). The main page is the most drastic difference, but almost everything has had a bit of a change. […]