When a crack team of bookphiles came up with a brilliant idea for a new social networking site, who did they call to implement it? Well, ComputerMinds of course - based on our impressive portfolio of Drupal based sites, and our ability to cut out the geek speak and tell it like it really is. And the result? One of the hotest sites for 2007 - booktribes. "Booktribes is a social network built around books...
ComputerMinds are partnering with Bristol based EPOS supplier Bristec in the development of an ecommerce plug-in for their popular BOSS system. The system will allow retailers to quickly and easily create a web presence using their existing database of products. The new eCommerce system (codename Nebraska) links into the on-site BOSS EPOS database, synchronizing product data, stock levels and order details between the local shop and the remote website. ComputerMinds MD, Mike Dixon, was quoted...
Human Opinion We are proud to anounce the release of Human Opinion - the online repository for human opinion. Based on the open source CMS Drupal, the site will allow users to ask questions and contribute their opinion.
Team Computerminds achieved a top 5 finish in the Dynamic Adventure race endurance event held on the Malborough Downs. Scoring 880 out of 1000 points this was team ComputerMinds' highest scoring event. The event saw the team orienteering on foot and Mountain Bike for just under 8 hours.
Team ComputerMinds successfully completed the 2 day ACE race held in North Wales. The race saw the team running and mountain biking for 11 hours on the first day (including a night section). The second day the team took to the water with a long kayak stage followed by a blisteringly fast Mountain Bike time trial. ComputerMinds finished just outside the top 10 (in 11th place) which is not for the first attempt.
ComputerMinds have been working with Bristol based Coull to produce the web portion of their vlogging system. The technology has been used on a number of high profile sites including my.sportal.com TEAMTalk The system was also used for ITV's world cup show WorldCuppa.
ComputerMinds are now the proud owners of a rapid response Vespa scooter. The 50cc machine is the fastest way to get around Bristol's busy streets. Kitted out in ComputerMinds colours the scooter is rapidly becoming a Bristol landmark. Boasting fuel economy of around 80mpg, not only can we get to you quicker but we can get there greener.
The problem Drupal offers some powerful caching features, but they are by no means perfect as we discovered when building the site http://www.booktribes.com. Booktribes uses some simple custom blocks to display some semi-dynamic content, content such as the "rotating" lists of celebrity favourite books. Turning on Drupal page caching offers a significant performance boost to the site, but it means that our dynamic front page content suddenly becomes static - which is bad news. So...