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We're recruiting!

Posted: 22/12/2011 - 15:00

PHP/HTML Developer: £22k - £35k per annum An opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented and innovative developers in the industry where you will constantly be challenged and pushed to find innovative solutions within strict time and budget constraints. All of our developments are built using XHTML with CSS for layout, and complying to all W3C guidelines. Whilst we occasionally use other technologies, such as Perl or ASP.Net, our primary development environment is PHP...

Holiday Opening Hours

Posted: 09/12/2011 - 15:02

It has been a fantastic 2011 here at Pure Innovation with lots of new faces, both clients and team members, as well as some really exciting projects... and I don’t know about you, but we’re all just about ready for a break, so it’s a good job the holiday season is upon us. Therefore, we thought it would be a good idea to let you know the office is going to be closed as follows:5:00pm Friday 23rd December 2011 to 9:00am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.We’d really appreciate...

Digital Creative Wanted!

Posted: 07/09/2011 - 9:41

Are you a creative expert with the ability to produce stunning designs, looking for a small agency where you can really stamp your marque? If so, then we have an opportunity that you’re going to love – Pure Innovation are at the forefront of web technology, working in a highly entrepreneurial market. We now need a digital creative to make everything we do stand out from the crowd. You must have a proven track record of designing outstanding websites and apps, able to captivate and...

Configuring nginx To Run symfony

Posted: 09/02/2011 - 10:05

Whilst setting up a new nginx web server for a client, I was reminded that there does not appear to be a definitive configuration on the web that works perfectly with symfony. Most of the other solutions I've seen involve regular expression hacks to make the various controllers work, rather than using the built in fastcgi_split_path_info directive. In the interests of helping the wider world, the following is the starting point when configuring up a new virtual host. ...

The rise of Android

Posted: 24/11/2010 - 16:10

At Pure Innovation we've been following the progress of Android with great interest since it's launch two years ago, and have long predicted that it was set for domination of both the smart phone market and ultimately the entire mobile space. Looking at the latest US sales figures, it now looks upon that time is upon us. Despite the media infatuation with Apple, Google Android powered smart phones currently out sell the iPhone 2 to 1, with RIM (Blackberry) now falling into third place having...

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 ...

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...