The European Software Conference

Last weekend I attended the European Software Conference in London. Dave Collins (online marketing wizard) brought the event to my attention which I was previously completely unaware of. First impressions from the website were not great but Dave heartily recommended the event and it was extremely reasonably priced (€80 for a two day conference) so [...]

Investment Workshop

As I alluded to in the previous post, last week I attended an investment workshop organised by the Prince’s Trust. When I first heard about the event I wasn’t too interested as I hadn’t really given investment any prior thought so assumed the content of the day wouldn’t apply to me. However it had sparked [...]

Following startups

Way back in 2003, I started my business, a little web software agency for those not already aware. To help kick things off, I had support from the Prince’s Trust, attended many networking events and sought discussion from family, friends and anyone else I could remotely consider a business advisor. All of these interactions provided [...]

Stop competing on features

Competing on features is the road to feature bloat, poor usability and increased frustration for users, developers and project stakeholders. I’ve been taking an increased interest in the “tech startup” trend that has been occurring over the past few years and this concept is especially pertinent for anyone trying to make a success of a [...]

Should all sites be responsive?

We’ve been doing a lot of research into responsive design at Moov2 the past couple of weeks. In a nutshell, this is the process of ensuring your web site/app re-flows and re-purposes its content to be optimised for the device upon which it is being viewed. In even simpler terms this is making sure web [...]

More Blogging

Keith Peters has just inspired me to get off of Twitter and G+ and back into the blogosphere. I’m following suit for mostly the same reasons as him. Initially twitter was an extension of the relevant topics people were blogging about. Like-minded groups of people would have an interesting and valuable discussion. Now it feels [...]

Meetdraw Presents: Silicon Beach

So on Tuesday I made the snap decision to head along to the First Meetdraw Presents event “Silicon Beach”. The Meetdraw crew have been gradually building some good momentum for all things ‘digital’ in Bournemouth and surrounding area. In my opinion the event was a great success and I’m already looking forwards to next year. [...]

MongoDB & .net in as few steps as possible

This is a very quick ‘get up and running in as few steps as possible’ because MongoDB makes it so easy to get started. Setup MongoDB Download the latest version of MongoDB from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads (v1.8.2 at time of writing) Unzip the files and place the bin folder somewhere (e.g. c:\mongo\bin) Create a folder c:\data\db (this [...]

New Flex/best practices blog

Moov2 aficionado Peter Keating has finally started blogging, so far posts have been a very thorough introduction to unit testing, test-driven development and project best practices for Flex. Definitely worth a look so check it out over at peterkeating.co.uk.

Come work with me!

At Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]