It’s been a while since I posted a blog, so apologies to all you Linear Chatters. We have been very busy here at Linear Blue! In addition to our ongoing projects, we have just opened a new office in London and launched a brand new service – ‘Cortela’.
I have spent this week working with Google Adwords closely, so thought I would blog about it. This is understandably where the search giant makes its fortunes and continues to hold a powerful market share of the online advertising world.
Business, Life, Linear Blue, SEO, Web
Last week Linear Blue turned 10! This is a happy occassion for Linear Blue, we are delighted with our successful solutions created with clients over the last 10 years. The company was founded in April 2000, by Paul de Hallé to specialise in his passion for advanced cross platform database development.
I’ve been thinking about marketing this week and have put together a few little tips which can help get you started! Hope they help. Read more…
Business, Life, Linear Blue, SEO, Web
I have been using Google Analytics frequently and have become impressed with the level of detail their features offer. The graph is one of my favourite tools, which helps to detect a trend with the data. The advanced segments feature is impressive, allowing you to select up to four segments, such as, new visitors, paid search traffic or non-paid search traffic, which filters through to the graph.
I am continuing to work on an ESS integration project and one of the biggest issues is speed when dealing with large record sets from MySQL.
The first thing you will want to do is download the FPDF class files from http://www.fpdf.org/ – this site is also an excellent resource for the FPDF class, if you get stuck then a look through the manual or frequently asked questions will help out no end.
I had a conference call with a client, one of their biggest customers and the customers’ developers the other day. Both the customer and my client are having new systems written (my client in FileMaker, my client’s customer in MySQL and, i guess, HTML) and they are both keen on integrating stock figures.
When writing a PHP based site – developers often also have to integrate with a database (otherwise the site tends not to be very exciting!) and a popular technology for this is a flavour of SQL. Rather than go through the basics of database queries using SQL (which if enough people ask me for – I certainly will do in the future) I have decided to write specifically about the mechanics of the JOIN command. The SQL Join command allows us to pull and combine data from two or more tables, where the result can be modified by specifying different data relationships between the tables.
Over the last few weeks I’ve often blogged and twittered about the upcoming launch of the new Linear Blue website. Well, it’s now live. As of Wednesday morning we have our new website. We launched on April the first, not for the comedy value, but as it is the ninth birthday of Linear Blue.
