The biggest challenge I face in my working life is the constant battle to focus on an idea. The sheer volume of information we face in the modern workplace makes it increasingly…
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I've spent the last couple of days working on some reasonably complex AWS integrations and yet again, I've noticed how well it all hangs together. Any time I've had to get…
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I've always been a bit suspicious of the use of animations on the web. This is a combination of a long history of terrible experiences with animations on the web and my experience…
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Here at linkalist, we are participating in an incubator as part of this process, the subject of surveys came up. Our go-to solution for surveys is SurveyMonkey which is a great…
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It seems like everywhere we go lately, businesses are suggesting that we should install their app. In daily life, we probably interact with dozens if not hundreds of businesses…
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The short answer is that a Web Application is a piece of software that uses web servers, the internet and your browser to complete tasks. A web application is different to a web
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Following on from our previous article, now that you have a basic list working, it's time to make it a little more useful for your customers. So firstly, we're going to have a look…
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This is the first in a series of articles about building an app with linkalist. The hardest part about building an app is figuring out where to start. This is where linkalist can…
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That first step in your startup’s online presence can be difficult. We’ve all been there and it can be daunting to have to deal with the domain registrars, designers, hosting…
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The ability to display content on maps is a key feature for many mobile apps and as such is not one that we can ignore on linkalist. So, we’ve been working on adding a new…
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Signing up through an email address is always going to be a difficult user story but this is made especially tricky when app signup is concerned. This is because there is always a…
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I ended up proving the old adage about never releasing on a Friday last weekend when I got a bit over-enthusiastic about getting a demo application into the iOS App Store on a…
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One way of getting linkalist in production is to start using it for our own apps. So that’s what we’ve been working on over the last while. The function of our first app is a…
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FontAwesome is an incredibly useful tool for web design and we use it extensively to avoid the need to get icons designed on a regular basis. As such it is a key part of linkalist
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While it’s not entirely accurate to say that we’re starting from scratch on an iOS SDK, it’s been a while since we’ve done any work on it and it’s well past time that we…
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Getting your pricing page looking well is an important detail on your application or service’s landing page. With tiered services, there is often quite a difficulty in presenting
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The linkalist landing page has been a fairly complex thing for a while and it is perhaps a little overwhelming for a first-time visitor. In particular, for a campaign page it is a…
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While working on an A/B testing piece of work, I noticed an embarrassingly huge number of little snags with the publishing side of linkalist. So I figured it was time to tidy up…
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Linkalist offers landing page functionality and in the best tradition of dog-fooding, we use this feature to present our own landing page and general product information pages. It
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While linkalist is designed to provide a good experience on the mobile web, there comes a point where your customers are going to want the convenience of a native client…
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Like many side-projects, getting a system together for making a build has never been a priority for me. Generally, pulling the latest from Bitbucket and a bit of scripting has done…
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Now that we’re working on putting together a consumer application with linkalist, it’s become apparent that we need some nicer ways of presenting some data entry controls as…
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One of our test apps makes quite a lot of use of location data and up until now, it has always been quite clunky to edit this location data — the only way to do so being to…
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One thing about an unreleased side-project is that you can skip niceties like legal consents that get in your way. Like most engineers I generally see these things as a bit of a
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Linkalist is at its core a Content Management System but it goes far beyond that. We support the basic CMS operations for managing lists of data but beyond that we allow our
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There seems to be about a million things to get done when launching something like linkalist and it is very easy to get overwhelmed by the magnitude of the work
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For a long time, I’ve had a side project. It’s a system that I use to learn, to play with and most of all to retain some control of my professional destiny. It’s been a minor…
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