Governor Technology Blog

10 @font-face glyph icon sets for responsive design

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Caption Competition

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

How Technology can Enable Growth and Exploit New Marketing Channels

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Nokia Lumia and deadmau5 Live

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

On Monday the 28^th November, collaboration between deadmau5 (a globally popular electronic music act) and Nokia turned Millbank Tower, Westminster, London, into a spectacular display to launch the new Nokia Lumia phone that uses the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. Visual perceptions and the boundaries of the limits of mobile phone launches were challenged as thousands of people attended the live show and stood awestruck and cheering in the cold winter evening.

Quick Fixes and Improvements for Web Developers with ReSharper

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ReSharper, the help-out kit for web developers, held an event on November 19^th to discuss the upgrade of ReSharper 6.1.

Bringing the Web to a New Level

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Our Technical Director, John Mannix, attended the HTML5 live conference in London.

Exciting New Umbraco Features Revealed at 2011 Festival

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The annual Umbraco UK Festival held on November 4^th was, as promised, a fun day out and packed full of knowledge and useful tips. Rigardt Pheiffer, one of our Umbraco development experts, attended and shares below his experiences and views of the event.

Can the Cookie Law Build a Better Web?

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Many website-based services appear to be totally free but are infact getting something from you in return. Creating and operating a website like Facebook takes a huge amount of money and expertise, and yet nobody has to pay to join. Why?