Category Archives: Work

Looking at New Features in PHP 5.4

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

PHP 5.4 was released at the start of March and heralds a key new feature which I have long bemoaned the lack of: traits. Traits (see PHP’s documentation and Wikipedia’s description) allow programmers to define a set of functions which … Continue reading →

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TallyStick, ViMbAdmin and a CSS/JS Minify Tool

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

It’s been a busy few weeks: We launched TallyStick – a time tracking and billing tool – two weeks ago and have pushed some bug fixes and updates. So far so good! IXP Manager, an open source web application to assist … Continue reading →

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“Go Faster” Websites – Introducing Minify

Posted on March 5, 2012 by opensolutions

We’ve been minifying and bundling CSS and JS for years to ensure quick page loads of the applications we build. We’ve now generalised, documented and packaged the tool we use for this and released it under a BSD license so others can benefit. Continue reading →

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ViMbAdmin :: New Release 2.0.6

Posted on March 5, 2012 by opensolutions

Today, we’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of 2.0.6 which has a number of incremental fixes and improvements. Continue reading →

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ViMbAdmin :: Major New Release :: V2

Posted on February 27, 2012 by opensolutions

We’ve put some time aside over the last week to do a major UI overhaul on ViMbAdmin – specifically incorporating Twitter’s superb Bootstrap framework. The before an after’s tell a lot about this. Continue reading →

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