24th March 2008, 07:45 pm
The other day I was watching some tug boats help manoeuvre a large tanker in to port. Despite the huge size of the tanker, the small tugs made swift work of such a difficult task. This got me thinking again about one of my pet subjects, which is why large companies all too often insist on getting similarly sized companies to solve some of their smaller software issues. If the captain of a tanker needs a quick change in direction, he doesn’t ask for another tanker to help with the manoeuvre.
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18th March 2008, 03:56 pm
We have always taken the Green side of life very seriously. At first glance one might not think that there is a great deal that can be achieved by an IT Consultancy such as ours to help the environment; or at least to reduce the impact of our actions on the environment. But, as time has passed I keep bumping into useful things - it seems to be in the zeit-geist more and more. The video below is taken from the Reuters website and talks about what companies are doing and in particular what products are selling at CeBIT 2008.
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7th March 2008, 06:07 am
For those of you in the know, if you look carefully you may have realised that we use Wordpress to build and manage our website. Website content management is something that is very close to my heart, as I’ve designed and built a corporate content management system (CMS) and helped to build many websites that use its functionality. That particular sledgehammer would not be suitable for manging the little nut, that is our website, so Wordpress turned out to be a real asset in building the site.
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5th March 2008, 08:50 pm
Search Engine Optimisation is often miss-understood — placed on a pedestal and either feared or revered by those who need it.
I’ve been working on optimising the Colosa website. I’ve just started this process and our website has only just launched, so it will be interesting to see how things change over the next few months. What does it mean to optimise a website? Many people will tell you that this is a black art. The truth is rather more straight forward.
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