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Nearly three years ago the social media giant Facebook sealed the deal on a $2 billion buyout of the virtual reality company Oculus. Many people are still unsure why exactly they’d want to buy into such an industry. Although this sort of thing happens a lot within Silicon Valley and the tech industry in general. […]

I don’t remember exactly when I first started developing websites, although it was over ten years ago and I was still in school; just to give a rough indication of my age now! When I started, I didn’t know anything about the industry and what it was really like to code as a career. My […]

Last month, WordPress 4.9 was released to the public after roughly three to four months of constant hard work in making sure that all of the planned features and outstanding bug reports were closed and ready to be shipped, in a stable product for the world to use. It was made possible by the four […]

In today’s digital age, it’s nearly impossible to not hear about the constant attacks that computer systems face each and every day. Only last May did we see news about several businesses which include the NHS being hit by cyber attacks on a huge scale. So it’s no wonder that in this day and age, […]

Over the many years that WordPress has existed, it has constantly grown and become a more and more complex Content Management System (CMS). This means the broad set of features available allows anyone from a developer to a regular user to use it in a variety of different ways. Essentially, you’re able to chop and […]

Recently, it was revealed by a somewhat mysterious tweet from CloudFlare – the content delivery and web services giant – that they have a very strange way of protecting our data in the cloud. Now CloudFlare isn’t exactly a household name, but they’re responsible for delivering content through a vast network of servers, enabling us […]

I recently took part in the regular Friday Knowledge Share here at Coast Digital where I presented The History of the World Wide Web. It seemed like an interesting topic to explore just how the World Wide Web has changed over the approximate thirty or so years that it’s actually been around. Even though it […]

It has been a while now since Netflix first announced a brand new infrastructure tool to cope with their complex technology stack. Since the original announcement, six to seven years ago, they’ve further developed the tool – expanding its purpose and capabilities. For those that haven’t heard of this before, they’ve named it The Simian […]

Whether or not you rely on open source software in your daily business activities at the moment, it’s crucial you’re aware of it and understand how it can help your business grow. Open source software is, to put it simply, software made by the public and available for free. There are so many projects out […]