Category Archives: Web

Style Guides and AEM: Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole

There is a push in the industry to code against an external style guide to maintain consistent styling, have a reusable set of components to build applications with and provide a shared vocabulary for teams to communicate. The goal is … Continue reading

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Tips for AEM Beginners

I started using Adobe Experience Manager (CQ 5.6.1) with a focus on component development and building OSGi services and I strongly believe that learning how to leverage AEM’s capabilities (as well as it’s underlying technologies like Apache Sling) are key … Continue reading

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Adobe Innovation Session (June 2015)

As part of the Adobe Partner program, various sessions and events are organised to keep partners updated on the latest features of the Adobe Marketing Cloud platform. Best practices are also talked about in order to deliver high quality solutions … Continue reading

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ES6 with Babel.js

ECMAScript 2015, also commonly known as ES2015 or ES6, is the specification that defines the ECMAScript language, of which JavaScript is one implementation. This new version of the specification introduces language features to JavaScript that can improve developer efficiency and happiness. Some features … Continue reading

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Securing your Spring App using 2FA

Not so long ago, a good old username and password were considered more than enough to secure access to our applications and favourite web sites. But back then, nobody could have imagined the countless ways in which a hacker can now get a hold of our precious … Continue reading

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Agile UX 2015: Conference Report

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Agile UX conference in Sydney.  A one day conference, run by UX Australia, the topics centred around “designing great user experiences within an Agile environment”.  For me, as a non-UX practitioner, … Continue reading

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Playing with Play Framework 2.3.x: REST, pipelines, and Scala

It’s an established trend in the modern software world that if you want to get something done, you’ll probably need to put together a web service to get do it. People expect data and services to be available everywhere, in a mobile world. With the plethora of frameworks and technologies available to go about implementing a web service, it becomes a chore to try using anything beyond what’s already familiar. But every now and then it’s an enjoyable experience to dive into something new and distinctly unfamiliar. Continue reading

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Scurvy, A/B Testing, and Barack Obama

It’s being almost 3 months since I start implementing A/B tests for one of our clients and I have to say I am enjoying it a lot. A/B testing is very powerful technique. Not only does it increase your web site … Continue reading

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Future of the Internet

We are living in the information age and are constantly on the quest for more. More information that is. Through the use of the internet, we have access to a wider variety of information than those who lived before us, but … Continue reading

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UX Australia 2014 – Melbourne Redux

UX Australia 2014 Redux was a one day Melbourne based recap of UX Australia’s 2014 Sydney conference. It was a chance for those who had missed out to see the most popular presentations. The following is a brief overview of the presentations.

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