And so the story goes; the cobbler’s children are the last to have new shoes. It seems that we’ve been so busy working on everyone else’s websites that we haven’t had time to stop and kick-off the new design & development of our own. At last, the Grudenites have got together to talk about everything Gruden [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Team kicks off scoping phase for new Gruden website
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Augmented reality with FLARToolKit
How’s this for a cool Friday mini-project… Having just completed a massive project (which you’ll be reading about here soon), Anthony from our interactive team decided to have a play with the recently released FLARToolKit which uses the Flash player in your browser, your web cam and a specially crafted image to overlay 3d objects [...]
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Gruden revamps Ferrier Hodgson website with Sitecore CMS
Ferrier Hodgson has been getting some great feedback for the new website that Gruden recently deployed for them. The revamped site has been well received by both internal partners at Ferrier Hodgson and also their customers. Ferrier Hodgson – Asia Pacific’s highest profile provider of turnaround, reconstruction and forensics services within the financial sector – [...]
Gruden Code Wars
Here at Gruden, we like to let out our inner geek every once in a while. Gruden’s development team compete against each other regularly for the ultimate glory of Code War champion and bragging rights at Friday night drinks. Staff members are given a loose topic and creative license to develop something innovative using any [...]
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It’s all about context
“Contextual advertising” – another buzzword on the radar in the online space. (Hard to keep up, isn’t it?) The theory is that the ad server understands the context of the pages the advertisement can appear on and places the ads appropriately. In practice these systems are often absent, leave much to be desired or have [...]
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Speaking at WebDU: Javascript security, XSS & CSRF
After many years as an attendee, I’ll finally be speaking at ”the premier Antipodean Web Technology Conference”, WebDU this year. Covering a huge range of front & back end web technologies, WebDU will have five streams over two days plus a third day of workshops. For those that haven’t been before – the Code Wars, [...]
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Net surfing tops TV watching
UPDATE: You know the one about lies, damn lies & statistics? Well perhaps unsurprisingly this research has caused some controversy. Internet consumption has topped television, radio and newspapers for the second year running, a new survey by Nielsen Online has revealed. The annual Internet and Technology report, based on more than 2000 responses from internet [...]
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Todd talks about technology efficiencies in an economic crisis
Earlier this month, Gruden CEO Todd Trevillion spoke with iStart about the importance of streamlining processes utilising technology efficiencies in an economic crisis. Here’s what he has to say: What I’m hearing from clients is all about how they can work smarter by the use of technology efficiencies across the whole company. You’ve got reduced [...]