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This week in JavaScript

jamied — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:56:48 +0000

jQuery Mobile 1.0 released: jQuery Mobile supports all of the major mobile platforms, and then some. …. There is some new documentation too http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/index.html BatmanJS 0.8.0 released: Which adds association support, pagination and stability improvements. Faye-websocket released: The guys behind the Faye Ruby, Node and JavaScript messaging library have released a JavaScript websocket API for anyone to use. [...]

This week in JavaScript

jamied — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:42:58 +0000

Today sees the start of a new weekly blog series, aimed at designers and developers, where we look at the latest news in the JavaScript world. Without further ceremony lets get started… jQuery 1.7.1 released: This release mostly includes minor enhancements, bug fixes and standardisations to the way the library works. The team will be opening the call [...]

5 fantastic SEO video resources

jamied — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:10:17 +0000

Today we are looking at SEO and have put together a great collection of video resources to get you started on the road to SEO mastery. 1. First off we have “An introduction to SEO”, a great video from Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. If you’re new to SEO this is an ideal video to get [...]

5 reasons why Media72 backups are awesome

jamied — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:46:40 +0000

Backing up your website data is extremely important and at Media72 we take data security very seriously. There are many causes of data loss, files can be accidentally deleted, a software crash could corrupt a file, or any number of other reasons. Nobody wants the worst to happen but if it does you need to [...]

Announcing green hosting using 100% renewable power

jamied — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:45:36 +0000

Media72 have always been committed to being environmentally responsible, we were one of the first companies in the UK to use a fully carbon neutral data centre. In the last few months we have taken our responsibilities one step further and are very excited to announce we have moved all of our servers to a [...]

Downtime issues resolved

jamied — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:33 +0000

In the afternoon our data centre fire alarm was triggered which released the fire suppressant gases. This had the side effect of causing a number of servers hard drives to go into read-only mode making the servers unable to fully function. One of the servers effected was the one hosting the media72 main site and [...]

Ruby on Rails 2.1.2 installed on all servers

jamied — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:26:15 +0000

We have now installed Ruby on Rails 2.1.2 on all servers. As this release contains security fixes it’s recommended that all users of Rails 2.1.x switch to the new 2.1.2 version ASAP.

Ruby on Rails 2.0.5 installed on all servers

jamied — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:10:21 +0000

Rails 2.0.5 has been release which contains security fixes. It’s advised all customers using a 2.0.x version of Rails update their applications to use the 2.0.5 version as soon as possible.

.mobi domain name special offer

jamied — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:32:16 +0000

Today marks the start of the domain name bonanza event at Media72. For the next few months we will be slashing the price of domains for one week only! To kick things off we are starting with .mobi’s, the domain extension designed for mobile devices. From now until midnight on Tuesday next week you will [...]

Payment provider downtime

jamied — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:58:30 +0000

Update: This issue has now been resolved, new sign ups can be made as normal. It turns out the issue was a power outage affecting the entire area around 2Checkout’s facility. Our payment solutions provide, 2checkout, has been experiencing a sustained denial of service attack over the last few days. Unfortunately this means we have [...]