Category Archives: Technical

Here’s a place for all things techy. Don’t worry, this is the only place we’ll unleash our technical department on you.

Apps – your questions answered

A is for App Mobile technology has always been fast moving but one of the most significant developments in the last few years is that of smart phone apps Well we’ve been saving up some answers to questions our clients have asked over the last few months on this subject and thought it would be an idea [...]

Client Focus – Friends & Relations

Occasionally we publish an update on our work with one of our clients, Friends & Relations, who are steadily expanding their online memorial offering with the back office support of Slightly Different.

The Story Behind The Code

Why Technical Documents Make For Better Software In any software project, documentation will play a part. Typically it will consist of a set of requirements, technical documentation of the architecture, technical documentation of the source code & user documentation, e.g. help files. Usually the set of requirements will be made, software written, and enough instruction [...]

Functionality – Is It Worth It?

If you look up the definition of the word functionality in a dictionary, you’ll find it fairly straightforward in terms of the method something uses to fulfil its purpose. Look up the definition on the Internet however, and this is another word that increasingly is now used predominantly for the purposes of describing the way [...]

What’s All This QA Business About

Tim Cooke Shares His Knowledge Quality Assurance In fact we all do QA all of the time without realising it – You use spell checker before sending your emails or Word document and look at the ‘sell by’ date when buying milk or sandwiches from the garage forecourt, right? That’s all QA of some sort. [...]