Category Archives: Under The Hood

AMP’s Innovative Intranet

Congratulations to AMP who recently won an Intranet Innovations 2010 award! As the award states: “Australian financial services firm AMP delivered a major new version of the corporate intranet, ‘The Hub’. It enables employees to define the news and information they see on a day-to-day basis, and features a powerful, enterprise-wide, faceted search tool, all [...]

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Firesheep highlights vulnerability in open wi-fi networks

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The next time you are surfing the open wi-fi at your local cafe, airport, workplace or even on your home network, spare a moment to consider how secure your web traffic is. With the release of a Firefox extension called Firesheep, it has become much easier for average computer users to listen to the traffic [...]

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On practising what you preach

Cross post from my blog I was having a water cooler conversation that turned into a debate with someone at work yesterday. We were talking about approaches to styling WordPress blogs using themes. I’ll take this opportunity to digress before diving into the detail and tell you about a particular ethos we have at Gruden. [...]

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Life, below 600px

A nice exploration of what goes on below the fold… Share this on: Facebook Twitter

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“Would someone please give this idea some shebangabangs!”

Moving from Sales into my new role as a fully-fledged Grudenite Account Manager, I’ve been looking to some of my mentors and various industry mouthpieces for some inspiration on effective mechanisms for online/offline campaign integration, online campaign development and how to mould some structure around the concept of the ‘big idea’. Life at the Bottom, a creative [...]

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Seven Google Analytics tips and tricks

Google Analytics is pretty popular for tracking website usage, and we use it here at Gruden on our own sites – including this blog. Here’s our collection of general purpose Google Analytics tips and tricks… 1. Clever homepage tracking Need to know which areas of your site’s homepage visitors are clicking on? Google Analytics’ “Site [...]

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WebDU slides: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Javascript security, XSS & CSRF

Last week I delivered a talk at the fantastic WebDU conference which focused on an area that I have been becoming increasingly concerned about over the last while – security in the browser. Unlike other areas of the web platform that have well defined and effective security mechanisms (SSL/TLS, firewalls, strong passwords, access control) the [...]

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Flash game development 101

As part of the ongoing Gruden China training program, talented members of the interactive team – Peng, Haixia and Wenjie – are brushing up their Flex & Flash skills. This time around, I decided to move away from the training status quo and proposed a simple Flash game for development. This initiative turned out to attract some interest from another Grudenite [...]

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We’re ready for Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft’s new browser – Internet Explorer 8 – will be made available to Windows Update users within the next 10 days. If you can’t wait for that, you can download the final version from Microsoft right now. If you’re a Gruden customer and you’re wondering if the site we built for you will look like [...]

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Gruden site now iPhone-friendly

Being Mobile Friendly We recently commenced an effort to make the Gruden website more mobile-friendly. With the overabundance of iPhones in our office, that provided an easy start, and an easy platform to test with. We’ve always been believers in the separation of presentation and content. We code our HTML to best practices, with a [...]

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