Archives February, 2012

Developing a Web Services API for EPiServer

A technical deep dive into our approach for exposing the complex business logic in GSK's NRT Behavioural Support Programme - which is implemented on the EPiServer CMS platform - via a new web services API.

Why Twitter Links are Broken

It is well known that Twitter enforces a maximum size of 140 characters per tweet. This lead to the adoption of link shortening services as a workaround for posting tweets containing long links, which worked OK until Twitter implemented their own "t.co" link shortening which is a not-very-good copy of a workaround that was not ideal in the first place.

Why The World Needs More Techies

Michael Bloomberg, major of New York and billionaire founder of Bloomberg, recently declared that he is going to learn to code, inspired by the Code Year campaign from Codecademy. Here's why we think more people need to follow his lead.