MongoDB - a database solution for the future?
MongoDB is touted as the future of big data, but is what is it, and how does it compare to traditional relational databases?
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MongoDB is touted as the future of big data, but is what is it, and how does it compare to traditional relational databases?
Read moreWe have completed the major redesign of Circle's website which is now fully responsive and live.
Read moreThe new Sphere Estates website is now live. Following the management buyout of Abercrombie and Kent International Estates, the new Sphere Estates website is a quick re-branding of the old site. The new site can be found at www.sphereestates.com.
Read moreAfter several months of incubation, our new website is finally here!
Read moreHaving met some pretty strict deadlines, the new ExceleratedS2P website is now live.
Read moreExcelerated Sourcing have approach Altitude to help them understand Umbraco better and to implement new designs for their website.
Read moreIf you have ever worked with CSS float, I am absolutely sure you have experienced the interesting and sometimes strange effects it has on the content that follows. In this post I have summarised different ways to clear CSS floats along with some helpful tips for older versions of IE.
Read moreCircular Reference issues when serializing more complicated data objects is commonplace. A typical way of dealing with this is to add DataContract...
Read moreIn one of our latest projects there was a need to implement a full-text search engine. We had several search requirements such as filtering by categories, searching near a given location and, of course, searching for a specific keyword. We already had experience using Lucene.Net so we chose to use Apache Solr, which uses the Lucene library to provide fast searches and full-text indexation to give better performance.
Read moreOver the years we have written a number of secure web systems for clients that require client user authentication. The technically ideal pattern for this is a "Multi Factor Authentication" (MFA) model.
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