Technology
Technology shifts quickly in this business.
This is aimed at providing a glimps of what we work with right now.
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PHP
Our primary development language provides all the right tools for rapid development and since it’s the most widely used language on the web it means we can install our systems on almost any server. We use a lightweight framework called Kohana with a custom userfriendly administration interface.
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HTML
CSSEveryone does HTML and CSS, but few do as well as we do.
We pride ourselves on keeping updates on the lastest HTML5 and CSS3 tricks, knowing how to get it right on any browser including iOS Safari. Our code is W3C validated and we have experience with accesibility standards. -
MySQL
MySQL is the most common open source database and is used in nearly all of our projects. We’re experts at getting things to run fast and use indexing and various caching options to make sure the pages are not waiting for a SQL query to finish.
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Hosting
Our hosting facilities in
Oslo are enterprise class
and is managed by the
Copyleft Operations team.
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jQuery
For fancy magic tricks we use the jQuery Javascript libraries. Communication with backend systems are often done with JSON.
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Python
Small tasks that need a bit of scripting on the server are done with Pyhton.
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Common
LispCommon Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language we use to make awesome systems.
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PostgreSQL
Not as well known as MySQL,PostgreSQL offers some more advanced features like rollback and stuff.
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Facebook
We have a lot of experience integrating with Facebook and understand how to use the API properly and legally.
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What we don't do
Generally speaking we stay away from proprietary software. This means we don’t develop using .Net, we don’t run Oracle databases and we avoid Flash whenever possible. After all there’s a reason we’re called Copyleft.
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Google
Google makes some of the best APIs in the industry. Perfectly documented and always functioning.