Development - Nathan Jeffery

Development

A collection of 19 posts

No one gives a shit, unless you broke it

Software development is an 18+ hour a day job. Clients pay for solved problems and don’t have much patience, some problems are difficult to solve, some are easy. Clients don’t appreciate the work you do, you need to be driven internally. You need to get enough kicks out

Launching a Website

Business is online. Whether you like it or not, we’re living in a connected society and consumers are more enabled to do product and company research than ever before. The average household or business is operating with a limited budget and needs to get the best value for money

Launching an App

We often engage with clients who would like to launch an app or software solution. We feel it is our responsibility to make our clients aware of some of the issues pertaining to the success of launching a digital product and gaining any worthwhile traction. Here are a few points

Ten years on the Web

Ten years ago today, I decided I was going to build a website. I started my journey by registering my first domain. I needed to get the site hosted so I signed up for an account with Hetzner. Thinking back now, embarrassing as it may be, I really didn't know

I am an edge case

After much anger, frustration, rage and ranting I had the opportunity to engage with Sam Brown, Foursquare's lead UI designer and front-end developer. He was receptive and open to critical feedback, which I think is great. They've looked at the data, made difficult decisions and upset a lot of users

A case against Unbundling

The news broke that Foursquare is splitting off part of their functionality to build a new app called Swarm and it got me thinking about this unbundling situation. I'm disappointed, frustrated and angry. I use Foursquare daily as a social tool to engage with friends around the world, a personal

Software Night at G3ECS

We had a full house tonight and started off with a quick refresh of the basics of HTML as well as how the Web Works. Rudie, was great at explaining some of the concepts in a really easy to understand way. We then continued working through the HTML course on

Introduction to the web and some HTML basics

Tonight would have been hardware night, but we had a smaller turnout than usual, due to an event at one of the high schools and we had a few new faces so we decided to do a night focused on the internet and on HTML. We started off the session

2013 kicks off with a bang

The office hasn't even officially been open for a week yet and you can already sense that this year is going to be great. The team are busy with two new apps and we're busy wrapping up a few from last year. Imel, Rudie and I had a great ProtoCon

Office 2010

First Windows 7 and now Office 2010! Microsoft has really come to the party with a higher performance and truly worthwhile business productivity suite. For quite some time now, I have not been using MS office at all and have been an advocate for Open Office and all things open

Desktop

Collected my new PC today and busy getting it configured. This is my first desktop so I'm seriously stoked. It's no super computer, but it's a darn lot faster when it comes to rendering than my notebook. I'm running Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz, 4Gb RAM, 500GB HDD -

MyEcommerce is Growing

Today sees our team grow to ten. MyEcommerce now has a dedicated hardware and networking team, social media management and SEO team and a lot of fresh project ideas. Welcome to Craig Moss, Ryan Shipton, Dereck Bester, Donald Chipppendale, Gerard Mopp, Nicholas Hoffmann and Kobus Beets. Gregg, Deon and I

Windows 7

Got my Windows 7 upgrade DVD from the states a few days ago. Why it had to come from the states I'll never understand. The DVD was free but the transport was flipping ridiculous, don't Microsoft know that they have an office in South Africa and it would be cheaper

Google Chrome Frame

My first thoughts when reading about Chrome Frame in one of Google's developer newsletters, was "Awesome we can now ditch support for IE". IMHO I feel that as a development community we should simply not support IE, but according to W3Schools stats on browsers http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.

Bing

Anyone who knows me will know that I am a Google Supporter, but will also know that I am a Microsoft partner and believe that Open and Proprietary software can coexist and should. When Bing was released I was not super impressed and didn't like the whole image background and

Education System

As much as I hate to say it, education is critical to success. The problem I have however is not with education but with the education system. As a country we are suffering from fewer and fewer people qualifying with University degrees as costs are increasing and entry criteria is

Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency is a doubled edged sword, it is not only the green way but it is the economically sustainable way. I feel that there is a lot that can be done around the topic of Energy Efficiency which is being ignored. Legislation As with most things in life it

MyEcommerce Goes Dedicated

I had the privilege of ordering a dedicated server today. * Core 2 Quad 2.33 GHz * 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz * 2 x 160GB SATA HDD * H/ware RAID 1 * 99.9% uptime with SLA It is something that has been a hot topic at the office and a very