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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...

New Site Launch: Park Lane Champagne

Posted: 01/05/2009 - 14:11

Pure Innovation have just launched the new Park Lane Champagne website. Park Lane has been importing and supplying champagne to the UK under their customers' own brands for 15 years. With Pure Innovation's help Park Lane have taken their business online with a content managed e-Commerce website. At the heart of the new site is the label-maker, allowing visitors to customise their champagne bottle with images and text before checking out. Visitors can also read the owner's musings in...

dateToString() PHP Function

Posted: 24/04/2009 - 15:31

We've recently had a project where a calendar was central to the build. We wanted it be really simple and intuitive to use, so we decided to represent dates in both a traditional format and also in a more conversational style such as 'Yesterday' or 'In 2 weeks'. This function works by taking a time stamp in the format yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS. Feel free to use and change the code below, but if you improve it or fix any bugs, please let us know! One thing we would say is that whilst every...

Pure Innovation Are Recruiting

Posted: 04/03/2009 - 9:00

Despite the current economic outlook, business at Pure Innovation is continuing to expand at a dizzying rate. To cope with demand we are expanding our team with two new roles - a graphic designer and a PHP developer. Graphic Designer: £20k - £30k per annum An exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated graphic designer to become an integral part of our development process. A customer-facing role with responsibilities ranging from wireframing and designing websites, through...