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Archive for October, 2008

jamey

My new awesome development desktop

by jamey ~ October 17th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

Oh yes, it seems like excitement in the form of new hardware has been put into my blessed hands this fine morn’. I have now caught up with Jake and have the same configuration: three spiffy 19-inch TFT monitors with the laptop to the side (mine’s on the left side though). Comparison: Jake’s [...]

david

Getting people involved and getting members into the book

by david ~ October 10th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve noticed that a lot of people are setting up a new yearbook online, with themselves as editor, and even getting together the form groupings for the members, but not actually getting members to sign up for the book.
Obviously it’s still early in the year, but the sooner members get involved, the more time they [...]

david

Spam vs Blog, Blog beats Spam – Please read our Blog

by david ~ October 10th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

There’s a bit of a debate going on in the office just at the moment – or at least in the non R&D part of the office – about the best way for us to make sure people are getting on ok when we haven’t heard from them for a while.
Point one – big, spamming, [...]

jake

Web-based yearbook systems: AllYearbooks vs. the competition

by jake ~ October 9th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News.

Hmm… we’ve spent a bit of time recently testing our online yearbook system versus ’similar’ systems offered by our primary competitors here in the UK. The results were… umm… interesting.
In brief: we believe that we are far, far, far and away the best. [1]
It would probably be unfair to name names. But we’ve tried three [...]

jake

New feature: better photo browsing

by jake ~ October 9th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

I’ve just launched a new feature to enable members of a yearbook to more easily browse through photos uploaded by other members. On each member’s yearbook entry page there’s now a list of all photos they’ve uploaded. Nice and simple.

nic

Office life

by nic ~ October 1st, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

Today we have been catching up with clients and finding out how their books are coming along, it is always nice when people get organised early.  The weeks before results days are always hectic!
David and I have also been having a mammoth game of truth or dare jenga! So far no winners but I have [...]