Thursday, Apr 18, 2019
I was recalling recently of my history with the Internet. Having been both an active user and developer for at least the last 23 years (that seems strange), I think that there is nothing that so completely has dominated my internet life as the browser that I have been using.
Year to Browser Use (Percentage) Year Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Chromium Brave 2000 100 2001 100 2002 100 2003 100 2004 100 2005 50 50 2006 10 90 2007 10 90 2008 10 50 40 2009 20 80 2010 20 80 2011 20 80 2012 20 80 2013 20 80 2014 20 80 2015 20 80 2016 20 50 30 2017 20 50 10 20 2018 30 10 60 2019 30 70 2000-2005 - The PC Years In the early PC year (which probably stretch before 2000), my PC life was dominated by Microsoft. ...
Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018
There is a lot of discussion around the amount of money that is inside the tech industry. Although there is money to be made it is not without the trials and tribulations of selling software. This is my story of selling my first application and some of the lessons learnt. Although this was not my first built application, it was the first application that I built without request from clients. ...
Sunday, Jun 4, 2017
The most recent buzz word around is digital, however, it is often used as a catch all term for almost anything that is related to computers. So, what is the scope of digital and where do different roles exist inside the landscape?
Generally speaking, I term digital to be anything that uses the wider Internet, however, that does not mean anything that is networked. So, simply accessing a file server is not using digital services, however, using a web application to access a file server is. ...
Friday, Oct 23, 2015
This week has certainly been a busy week at Will Hall Online, with Stephanie and Will out of the office at two different events, The Beds SME Expo and The ARU Computer Science Employers Forum. So we thought a great time to do a bit of feedback from both.
Beds SME Expo The Beds SME Expo is a Small and Medium size exhibition/business fair based in Bedfordshire to allow businesses to network and look for potential customers and clients in the Bedford B2C scene. ...
Friday, Oct 9, 2015
Over the recent weeks we have been restructuring the business and especially how we can measure employees performance. The measurement of performance is not a new thing and I am sure that most of you have heard of KPI as a way of being able to see how effectively you are working at a role. However, with development we found it difficult to think up any KPI’s or metrics that a developer could be judged upon. ...
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015
I’ve recently started running a course called Computers for the Clueless (name chosen by the local education authority), which is aimed at helping people who’ve not really used computers before to be able to do some basics. For me, basics covers using the keyboard and the mouse effectively, using the operating system (in this case Windows 7), CRUD tasks for files, and a few internet tasks including general navigation and sending and receiving emails. ...
Monday, Jul 27, 2015
We’ve moved… Hallneg Limited are now located at Bellingham House in the heart of St Neots on the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street. Only moments from all local conveniences and walking distance from St Neots mainline station.
The newly refurbished office is a vibrant and modern facility housed within a characterful Grade II Listed Building. We have meeting facilities, high speed internet, a hot-desking hub and open plan campus all in house. ...
Friday, May 29, 2015
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been genning up on their already pretty solid Google Analytics knowledge in order to take the Analytics certification exam on the Google partners site.
I think it was a useful thing for us to do. It’s further evidence that we do actually know what we’re doing and can help people get the best from their digital marketing. It’s certainly not too easy (unless you cheat and Google Google’s answers, which you would have plenty of time to do), though most of the difficulties are caused by what are pretty much trick questions rather than by the difficulty of the material. ...
Tuesday, Apr 28, 2015
We recently attended the Huntingdon Business Fair and were really pleased to see both the variety and strength of the business community inside Huntingdonshire and the surrounding area. Whilst we were there we were offering a free website performance audit to anyone who left us a business card which was well received. Some interesting results occurred from this. Generally speaking, connections to the internet are getting quicker, however, this doesn’t seem to have resulted in faster website/web services, just more and more being sent to users. ...
Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015
Recently we’ve been working on updating our clients page, which required us to think, for the first time in a while, “what do people want from a clients page?”.
Our first thought as developers was to start bashing out lengthy case studies documenting the finer points of Drupal Commerce configuration and Apache Solr setups, but then we remembered we weren’t writing them for our benefit and went back to the drawing board. ...
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