January 15, 2019 by Tim
Kindleman are back in the studio at a sprint for 2019, working on a variety of web builds that we started late last year. We've started our year with a custom Silverstripe site for Mindfulness Courses around Australia, a Rails pharmaceutical education CMS, and a customer acquisition app for the Aged... Read More
December 04, 2018 by Will
With Rails 5 we now have ActiveStorage: built in file management with the framework. This is a fantastic adition to the framework as it standardises file management, instead of relying on 3rd party plugins. ActiveStorage adds two tables to your app that handles all the file details (active_storage_blobs) and the... Read More
October 23, 2018 by Emily
Starting a new business or trying to organise your old business comes with a million tiny administrative tasks that you didn’t even know you needed to care about. Enter email...it’s the definitive tool for a 21st Century business and a ‘must have’ but the ‘how’ can be daunting. What service to use? That’s... Read More
October 10, 2018 by Emily
Anyone who's ever taken delivery of a new website will know the joys of Lorem Ipsum - it's sample text. It's great for showing how a page 'could look' but it also indicates there is a huge amount of work to be done converting a blank site into your company... Read More
September 10, 2018 by Will
The ability to order lists is a popular feature for many web apps. We want to accomplish it with a minimum of overheads, dependencies and fuss. With Ruby on Rails and modern browsers - this is a simple task. Step 1, The Setup. We will need to manage the ordering of... Read More
June 13, 2018 by Emily
What’s the story with hosting? What do I need? What do I need to know? What about my emails? What’s my domain? These are all the many questions we get asked about website hosting and domains. So let’s start at the beginning… What's a Domain name? *Web Domain Names* - These are the URLs... Read More
May 18, 2018 by Will
*Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. GDPR, Data and law is super complicated. You should consult a lawyer.* What is it? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU regulation governing data protection and privacy. It covers all individuals in the EU. It is aimed at giving control of data to... Read More
April 26, 2018 by Emily
Do you lie awake and wonder if your website is actually working? Is it ranking for search, are people finding what they need when they get to your site? This is the kind of thing we worry about - constantly. Hopefully you are not awake pondering this conundrum but if you... Read More
March 05, 2018 by Tim
For a recent government digital project that Kindleman was proposing, I went back to have a look at the criteria for government digital projects - because I hadn't read through it for a while. I was surprised (read: ecstatic) to see that it had been updated to an entirely readable... Read More
March 04, 2018 by Will
User Experience (UX) design underpins all good web design. Good UX can be derived from experience, theory and research. To get it right, it pays to validate it through User Testing and to iterate on those learnings. There have been hundreds of books written on the subject but I've picked... Read More
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