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Cookies and European Law 2012

Information and advice from Priocept on making your website compliant with the European Union ePrivacy Directive.

Read more Leave a Comment April 10, 2012 David Lampkin

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.

Read more Leave a Comment February 9, 2012 David Lampkin

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.

Read more Leave a Comment February 6, 2012 David Lampkin

Authentication vs Authorisation vs Access Control

A short article on the differences between three important and fundamental security concepts that are often confused: Authentication, Authorisation, and Access Control.

Read more Leave a Comment August 30, 2011 David Lampkin

New video: Priocept on Sitecore

Priocept’s Principal Consultant, Matthew Skelton, talks about Sitecore’s excellent support for multi-lingual websites including Arabic.

Read more Leave a Comment July 18, 2011 David Lampkin

Agile Development – Does It Make Sense For Clients?

There is an increasing move towards “Agile Development” for IT projects, particularly those using new and emerging technologies such as internet and web projects.

Technologists increasingly advocate Agile Development, but does it make sense if you are the client or business owner? The answer is “yes” for the right type of project – but only if you get commitment and clarity from your supplier when it comes to project costs.

Read more Leave a Comment February 9, 2010 David Lampkin

Adopting Open Source Technologies

In this article, we provide some guidance on how you can take advantage of open source technologies to eliminate software licensing costs, reduce support costs, avoid vendor lock in, and to give you the freedom to fully customise software solutions to meet your needs.

Read more Leave a Comment January 5, 2010 David Lampkin

Should You Be Off-Shoring Your IT Projects?

Indicators of when it’s best to off-shore and when its not…

Read more Leave a Comment November 3, 2006 David Lampkin


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