Getting Started with SEO – Tips

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 SEO [...]

Full time Ruby on Rails Developer (Social Networking) £30,000 – £40,000

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 with [...]

Rate The Landlord is updated and re-released!

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 landlord [...]

We have moved offices

Dynamic50 have moved into a brand new office in Croydon. Our new office address is: 17/21 George Street, Croydon, London, CR0 1LA

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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 pop in [...]

Complex Lists

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 be grouped [...]

Full time Ruby on Rails developer required (London) £32,000 – £35,000

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 education sector. [...]

Rounded Corners

Ugh. If there is one task that will kill my motivation for the day, it’s rounding boxes with CSS. Yes, in the right context they do give a design an edge, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a real pain to do! The subject has really been done to death by now- there are [...]

Cooking With Sass

Hello again. This week I’ve been getting to grips with Sass and seeing what I could do with it. Sass (a rather charming acronym of Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a component of the Haml plugin for Ruby. Where Haml deals with the markup of HTML, Sass deals with the markup of CSS. It describes itself [...]

Semantic Forms

Hello there! My name is Simon and I’ve just recently joined Dynamic50 as the resident front-end man. As part of the initial work, I needed to generate a bunch of generic, good looking reusable interface elements, and that of course involves the dreaded HTML form. Now, forms are notoriously difficult to style well consistently across [...]

Textmate issues – env: ruby: No such file or directory

One of the issues that keeps on rearing its ugly head, and I have never got round to fixing is the following error locally on Textmate:

env: ruby: No such file or directory

Well today I decided to put an end to it!

Textmate assumes (wrongly in my case) that Ruby is located at:

/usr/local/bin/ruby

Whereas a quick check on [...]