One of the best projects to undertake to learn Django is the to-do app. It teaches you to read and write to databases, about the models, views and templates concepts…
Category: Building my own tech
Building a to-do app with Django
Actionable UI insights from Google Analytics
Recently, I’ve been speaking with an old client. I designed his website for him several years ago and provided him with an introduction to Google Analytics as part of that…
Build your own job site with WordPress
Recruitment is big business, it always has been and it’s becoming an increasingly desirable industry in which to work. Why? because the adoption of social media, job sites, Linkedin and…
Achieving a 100/100 Google Page Speed Score
Google Page Speed Insights is a relatively new tool by Google. It checks the speed of your site, delivered on both mobile & desktop devices. Clearly, Google uses this information…
500 Internal Server Error – WordPress Fix
We’ve all had that ‘holy sh*t’ moment, where you’ve been happily updating your WordPress website, perhaps updating a few plugins and doing a bit of housekeeping. If you’re like me,…
A few steps to Google approved page speed
As a website owner, speed is everything to me. I look for ways to improve the performance of my website even when it’s performing well. It’s this constant pursuit for…
Buying a ready made business
There are a few ways to go about setting up your new website. You COULD build it yourself, slowly grow followers & eventually end up with a popular and profitable…
Building your own mobile app
Netshock has had a mobile app for some time but I will be the first to admit that it sucked. It used the technology blog RSS feed to pull articles…
Software development methodologies.
Recent developments in the software world have brought about a change in the way software is developed. When it comes to software development everyone tends to follow a methodology, knowingly or…
Use mocks to make unit testing painless.
In my last post I talked about how to use Test Driven Development (TDD) to drive the development of your software projects and ensure the individual units are well tested….