Dynamic50 Web Design and Development, Ruby on Rails Specialists in London and Oxford, UK

Recently we have been having problems with DNS not resolving with our companies broadband provider. I looked at some open source DNS services, the best one being OpenDNS, but despite them having a couple of boxes in Amsterdam the lookups are still somewhat slow. So the solution? Create our own DNS server :-) This is [...]

Recently I have been moving a lot of our old repositories into our local gitosis from github. There seems to be no quick an easy solution for moving all of the remote branches across too, so this is how I am currently doing this. Below are the commands I have been using to do this: [...]

Amazon Cloudfront is a great way of serving your assets for your site from localised buckets. Firstly you need to set up a new distribution from your amazon CloudFront console here. Associate your distribution with a current bucket, or alternatively with a new bucket name, but if you do this you will need to create [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to use multi-column layouts in our sites, without resorting to using a silly amount of divs and javascript? Well, that’s what the Multi Column Module of the CSS3 spec aims to do. It has been in “Working Draft in the CSS Working Group for several years” and has [...]

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a process that can be explained in two parts: relevance and quality. Relevance is determined by onsite factors such as content and image descriptions etc. and quality is determined by links. Returning relevant results is the main goal of a search engines. This is why you must get your onsite [...]

Our client is looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer with at least 2 years of commercial experience. The job is working in beautiful surroundings full-time and on-site in Maidstone, Kent; within easy commuting distance of London. The successful applicant will be responsible for new feature development and maintenance of the current codebase, along [...]

Rate the Landlord (http://www.ratethelandlord.com) is a project we have been working on at Dynamic50 in house. Renting property is always a minefield, you just don’t know what you are really getting until you move in. Rate the Landlord gives users the ability to see the property before they move in, find out more about the [...]

Dynamic50 have moved into a brand new office in Croydon. Our new office address is: 17/21 George Street, Croydon, London, CR0 1LA View Larger Map Our offices are located within a few minutes walk of East Croydon station, which connects in 13 minutes to London Bridge and only 16 minutes to Victoria. Feel free to [...]

I recently had to take a pretty complex nested list and style it in a way that easy to understand with semantic markup. Note:In this post I will only be showing the styling and markup, not the implementation of showing/hiding the branches. The structure of the list sounds fairy simple, a list who’s children can [...]

Our client is looking for a motivated Ruby on Rails developer who has at least 2 years commercial experience. The right candidate will be a skilled coder who has a good eye for design and is able to see things through the eyes of a potential user. Based in London, the client operates in the [...]