10 @font-face glyph icon sets for responsive design

Posted by John Mannix | Monday, April 30, 2012 | not categorized | Leave comment

A list of ten handy glyph icon sets for use in responsive web design that can be embedded with CSS @font-face and scaled as vectors.

Notes from The State of the Browser conference

Posted by John Mannix | Saturday, April 28, 2012 | under Behind the scenes, Fun, News categories | Leave comment

On a wet and windy Saturday in South London, just next door to the O2, a group of web developers got together to listen to representatives of the main web browsers talk about what the future holds and how web standards are evolving to keep pace with the changing needs of web users.

Analysing Cookies in the Cloud

Posted by Charlotte Haeger | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | under Behind the scenes, News, Databases, Cookie Law categories | Leave comment

Governor Technology's Technical Director, John Mannix, visited Microsoft to share the story about how the Cookie Collective was built. John explains how Governor Technology architected the initial Cookie Collector solution in a way that was easy to build and scalable without spending a fortune, using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. 

Optanon - the Compliance Solution

Posted by Charlotte Haeger | Monday, March 26, 2012 | under News, Cookie Law categories | Leave comment

The deadline for complying with the new cookie law is approaching fast. By May 26th all websites should be complying with the law, or have a plan in place to become compliant. Achieving Cookie Law compliance requires of you as a website owner to know all the cookies (first and third party) being set by your website on your visitis' browsers. After gathering information about which cookies your website contains, before setting them on the browser, you need to ask for 'informed consent'. 

State of the Cloud

Posted by Muntedhar Alhakim | Monday, March 26, 2012 | under News, Software Business categories | 1 Comment

Let's face it - you can't get away from the noise about it. Cloud this, Cloud that. Your music is now in the cloud (the iCloud), your books are in the cloud (Kindle platform). Your email is in the cloud (Gmail, Hotmail). You can even do your word documents and excel spread sheets in the cloud (Office 365), and Adobe have recently launched their Photoshop in the cloud service. But what does it all mean?

Cookie Consent

Posted by Richard Beaumont | Monday, February 06, 2012 | under News, Cookie Law categories | 2 Comments

Visitors to the site will have noticed a change recently, with an information bar appearing at the top of our pages, asking for consent for the use of cookies.

To find out why we have done this, read on.

Caption Competition Results

Posted by Bonnie Newman | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | under Fun, Misc, News categories | Leave comment

The votes have been verified and we can now announce the winner of the Xbox 360 in our caption competition!

Caption Competition

Posted by Bonnie Newman | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | under Fun, Misc categories | Leave comment

We've had a great response to the caption competition we ran over Christmas, we enjoyed reading all the captions. We've narrowed these down to 6 captions we like best; now we need your vote to decide the final winner!

Men World Wide Grew Their Moustaches and So Did Richard

Posted by Charlotte Haeger | Tuesday, December 13, 2011 | under News category | Leave comment

November 2011, turned to Movember on November the 1^st. 

How Technology can Enable Growth and Exploit New Marketing Channels

Posted by Charlotte Haeger | Monday, December 05, 2011 | under News category | Leave comment

Why has Governor Technology been a member at Knowledge Peers since 2008? Knowledge Peers is biased in their focus and mainly covers new markets, new ways and emerging trends. Which we like. As an on- offline service for forward thinking leaders, it is a great opportunity for business owners to come together and share experiences, get on top of their game and engage with one another.