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Congratulations, Captain Ketch!!!

Posted: 14/05/2010 - 12:19

Congratulations, Captain Ketch!!! After 111 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes the Atlantic Adventurer James Ketchell has successfully completed the Atlantic Rowing Race 2009 on Saturday 24 April 2010. James tackled 3,000 miles of open sea purely by the power of his own strength and determination to overcome the difficulties of being at sea, exposure to extreme weather, isolation and the daily physical challenge. We were always kept up-to-date with James' progress on his blog to ...

Pure Innovation is looking for a Business Development Manager

Posted: 06/05/2010 - 12:02

Title: Business Development Manager Reports to: Managing Director Based at: Odiham, Hook, Hampshire (M3 Corridor) Sector: Digital New Media Opportunity: Pure Innovation is a young, dynamic Digital Agency focussing on technological excellence. The directors have put together a business plan which aims to build the agency over the next 3 – 4 years to a point where the business can be sold. This represents a good opportunity for the incoming BDM, as part of the business strategy revolves...

We are recruiting!!!

Posted: 06/05/2010 - 11:05

UPDATE: This position has now been filled. Since we returned to our roots in Website Development business has been booming, so much so that we are looking to expand our team to keep pace with all the opportunities coming our way. Right now we are looking for a SENIOR DEVELOPER with professional experience of: symfony or equivalent MVC framework Doctrine or Propel PHP Javascript HTML/XHTML/CSS jQuery MySQL and/or PostgreSQL and Linux. Duties & Responsibilities This is an...

New Site Launch: Atlantic Adventurer

Posted: 30/11/2009 - 16:38

Pure Innovaton is proud to annouce the launch of atlanticadventurer.com The Atlantic Rowing Race is one of the toughest tests of human endurance in the world with an average crossing time of between 55 and 65 days. The Atlantic Rowing Race 2009 will be the sixth race of its kind and will start from La Gomera in the Canary Islands and finish in Antigua in the West Indies.Pure Innovation were approached by one of the race competitors, James Ketchell, to assist in the development of his website...

Recursive Database Queries with PostgreSQL

Posted: 19/11/2009 - 11:35

Whilst working on a new website with social networking features, we needed to come up with an efficient way to retrieve a list of friends of a given user. The added difference that has flummoxed many an SQL database in the past, is that we also need to retrieve the friends of that users friends, and their friends, etc.The ultimate goal was to retrieve a list of users who were within five degrees of the primary user, along with the shortest route through the friends network to get to that...

New Site Launch: Pabulum

Posted: 01/10/2009 - 16:36

Pure Innovation are proud to annouce the launch of pabulum-catering.co.uk. Pabulum are a catering supplier providing tasty, nutritious and wholesome food that children actually want to eat. Pure Innovation were approached by Pabulum to give their site a new, fresh look as well as enabling them to easily update and adjust the site as needed going forwards.Pure Innovation were involved right from the start tailoring the graphic design, content management system and structure of the site to...

New Site Launch: legalcentre.co.uk

Posted: 27/08/2009 - 16:29

Pure Innovation are proud to annouce the launch of legalcentre.co.uk. legalcentre.co.uk is a leading legal resource website which provides up to date legal articles, guides and documents for immediate download. At the core of this offering is a document purchase and customisation process allowing visitors to buy and then bespoke legal documents to their needs using a simple wizard. This makes usually complex legal paperwork easy to complete and replicate from an intuitive user control...

The Importance of calendars

Posted: 05/08/2009 - 9:08

Firstly, we'd like to extend a very warm welcome to Alex Ball, our new lead developer. Alex has joined us to oversee all future developments, and guiding us as a company technically. All this change has got us thinking however. Until now we have all maintained calendars on our phones, or our mail clients. This has been great in that we all know where we are and what we are supposed to be doing. However, the missing link was the fact that everyone else didn't know where you were or what...