News

We are happy to announce that we are one year and twenty three days old to the day. February is turning out to be a busy month, and we welcome several exciting new clients and projects!

It has taken over 10 years, but we have finally exceeded 16 million lines of code (16,003,756 by the end of today, to be exact). Our latest project for Dartmoor Zoo which is soon to be released, consists of 1,165,218 lines alone, and was completed within 8 months.

Across the web on any site that stores the personal information of users, you often see a FAQ item or paragraph in the T&Cs; addressing data protection and data security. This all sounds good and well, but is only half the story. It doesn't matter how strong the security is on the server if the site is badly coded, or if the system admins or users have easily hackable credentials.

We received our first 3D printed item in the post today. It's a simple nickel-placed steel keyring with the Two Superior Studios logo. This came out better than we had expected, and are looking forward to using this service more in the future.

Despite some organisations and public bodies going overboard with politically correct festive restrictions this Christmas, the Wall Street journal suggests that “Merry Christmas” still reigns in popularity as a season’s greeting over “Happy Holidays”.

October was a successful month for many of our clients as we helped them get their websites live. This included South West Pests, Somerset Centre for Integrated Learning, and 2M Business Services.

Programmers' Day is a day to celebrate Programmers of all kinds, and thank them for all that they do. This year Programmers' Day falls on September 13th for 2013 and is always on the 256th day of the Year.

On the 4th September 2013, Janrain announced that the MyOpenID.com service (based on the OpenID standard) would be shutting down on 1st February 2014. Although there are big differences between OpenID and Authentication though an identity via OAuth, does this really matter to the end user?

A Google study on people's online shopping habits uncovered that 69% of people on mobile devices were actually at home. These results are changing web designers perceptions of what a 'mobile' user is. In addition to this, another study in the US found that over 70% of mobile phone users used their phone while on the toilet.

We would like to wish three Newton Abbot College students good luck as they set off today on an epic cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

There is a common misconception with passwords. People have over time tried to make passwords more secure by introducing more randomness into the password. However, this isn't necessary if you just introduce increased entropy through password length.