What is Education Technology?

April 12, 2023 by Emily

Education Technology, or EdTech, is a rapidly growing field with a focus on improving education through technology. This can include the use of software, mobile devices, and the internet to deliver educational content, facilitate communication and collaboration, and provide data-driven insights to improve student outcomes. EdTech companies and initiatives aim to... Read More


Make Your Ecommerce Shop Sing

March 30, 2023 by Emily

Is this the year you get your shop online or is this the year you get your shop to really sing? Ecommerce has been a major buzzword for years with many get-rich-quick schemes and rags to riches stories attached but mostly ecommerce is about persistence. Success is mostly about staying in the... Read More


Ecommerce Issues in 2023

February 22, 2023 by Emily

Ecommerce is now a mainstream way of purchasing, so what should we be looking out for in 2023? ecommerce2023 1 We live in a world where email and phone scams are an every day struggle so when paying online, security is crucial. Ensuring the safety of your customers' payment information... Read More


Kindleman - How We Do It - Ruby on Rails

January 31, 2023

At Kindleman, we use a combination of technologies and tools to build web applications, sites and business tools. One of our favourites is Ruby on Rails (RoR). It's a web application framework written in Ruby programming language. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and provides a structure for building web... Read More


July 2022 Pricing Changes

June 29, 2022 by Tim

For over 10 years, Kindleman has charged the same base rate of $150/hr + GST. However, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain a profitable and thriving business with these rates, which has been compounded by the effects of Covid, higher costs for our specialist developers, and now inflationary pressures... Read More


Jamstack

May 30, 2022 by Will

What is it JAMStack stands for Javascript Api and Markup. Although really, that's a bit muddled. Once deployed they are primarily markup, with interactive features and API data sprinkled on top with Javascript. JAMStack has made a splash over the last few years because it turns what has become the norm of... Read More


Hierarchical Menu Management with RubyOnRails

March 21, 2022 by Will

Most websites have a set of pages that need to be arranged as a tree, allowing users to drill down into more detailed pages. To manage that in the admin area, it's nice to be able to drag and drop the pages into the tree. Such a fancy feature is pretty... Read More


Adding Embeds to an ActionText Field

February 04, 2022 by Will

When a website requires a lot of custom functionality, we often reach for RubyOnRails rather than something like WordPress or SilverStripe. Rails has a lot of capability that enables us to build CMS features comparable to the best CMS systems. So when you want something unique, you don't have to... Read More


Websites and Climate Change

November 05, 2021 by Will

Climate change. It's real and it's bad. There aren't many human endeavours that aren't contributing to the catastrophe. Do you know how much carbon is released to power the internet? It is estimated there are a billion websites. All those web pages need a web server to store markup, databases, images... Read More


Flexible Content With SilverStripe

September 07, 2020 by Will

Introduction Part 3 in our series of posts about Flexible content covers Flexible Content in Silverstripe CMS. Silverstripe has added Flexible Content as a core supported module, called Elemental. The Elemental module provides the ability for SilverStripe users to break up a web page into smaller modular parts (or ‘blocks’) that allow... Read More



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