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Not the most exciting of news, but after moving into our new office the other month, we’ve unfortunately had to change our landline number. You can now get your verbal Abstraktion fix on 0117 953 3411.
We’re a little bit slow on getting an update, but we’re now in our new office and settled in nicely. Top highlights include a conference table, which doubles up as a nifty table tennis table, a Ford Anglia sofa and a general wealth of space!
Why not pop in for a coffee/tea/other liquid beverage sometime?
We’re going through an exciting transition here at Abstraktion at the moment. The first sign of this is our new office which we move into tomorrow! I wanted to put some photos of the space up before we move in for posterity’s sake and to give everyone a sneak peak of the new “Point of [...]
Well, just a little… We just pushed public our nifty PHP Command line interface for simplistic .htaccess based route generation.
Check it out over at Github.
After having a play around with the WP 3.0 Beta 1, I chucked together a quick wrapper for the new custom post type functionality, as it still felt a little convoluted. Skaffold is an attempt to create a higher level approach to custom post type generation, resembling something more akin to Rails model implementation. The [...]
Hot on the heels for our latest work for The Telegraph and Disney, we’ve managed to secure the contract to rebuild the ETTA’s CRM and payment processor.
The project’s highly time sensitive and requires serious development talent to meet the various complexities of facilitating 120,000+ members, but with clever use of some cutting edge technologies, we’re [...]
A few weeks ago we went into Future Publishing to build a bespoke Wordpress plugin to manage their upcoming T3 App Chart. The App Chart’s now launched to a massive user base and seems to be scaling pretty well!
The plugin we built enables editors to add Applications, essentially custom post types under Wordpress, into the [...]
A few days ago I posted a tweet with a link to a plugin we’d abstracted from a project for a previous client and are now releasing as fully open source. After a couple of days of user testing and iteration, I’m very pleased to announce that Buddypress paid membership is now ready for [...]
It’s proving to be a hectic time of year, we’ve just taken on a big run of work for Future Publishing, working on a range of exciting, fast paced projects. But we wanted to take the time to post up a few examples of the work we’ve been putting out since Christmas.
A new home for [...]
We don’t tend to do a lot of print design work, interactive’s our main focus. That said, we’ve just put together some rather sexy new business cards for our video production partner, Bexmedia.
We’re currently planning some very exciting work with Bexmedia, so stay tuned for that!