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In addition to web-development; we have games and general software development skills onsite.

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Brand Design – Newcastle 2304

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Sue, MD of Newcastle-based brand design company - 2304 says "Twentythree04 has collaborated with Peter on several projects now - on both client work and our own website development. His ability to realise concepts and translate strategic direction into the 'mysterious' language that is the web, is consistently impressive. In my 15yrs working with web developers Digital Acorn's work ethic is … [Read more...]

I’ve been Using Diigo

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I'm liking Diigo for bookmarking at the moment. I can link to stuff on my mobile to read later on a decent sized screen - although I think my 'must read later' list will just be a big bucket of stuff I rarely get time to go through. It can do page-caching - but apparently not on the mobile (where it would be most useful). There's also annotations where you can comment and highlight elements of … [Read more...]

Website Development

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Digital acorn has over 15 years experience in providing website development services to satisfied customers from all over the world. We offer mainstream services such-as CMS installations, bespoke PHP developments, and static web-sites using validated HTML and CSS markup. Lee, our experienced PHP developer and has a keen eye for quality webpage layouts ensuring you an excellent finish on your … [Read more...]

Lee Thompson – Welcome to Digital Acorn

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This is the official welcome to Lee; who joined Digital Acorn earlier this month. We've both been very busy getting up to speed in our new office this month. Lee has experience in MySQL and PHP coding, and will be working on the website development side of the business, picking up the majority of this type of work. I will continue to work on web development aspects of the business where needed. … [Read more...]

Android Development

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I've been doing some Android development on my... ahem... 'holiday'. It is a very nice operating system to use and develop for. The documentation is pretty good and the samples excellent. Of course it is a shame about the Java. I see there have been some attempts to use Python but these seem to have halted because of the advent of the Android Scripting Environment. But the ASE looks a little … [Read more...]

Beta – A Tale of the afterlife

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I mainly read non-fiction, however I've been reading the following book: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives. The book describes 40 possible afterlives as a series of short essays. I decided to have a pop at writing an afterlife of my own in the style of the book. Here is my effort.. Beta The afterlife shouldn't have needed to exist. It exists as a solution to the issues remaining when the … [Read more...]

Development Consultancy

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Peter Davies has been developing software since the age of eleven. Please read on to discover why he has skills to add value to your project. Over the years he has occupied the following positions: software developer and architect, team leader, internal project manager, manager of subcontractors, consultant. Been involved in computer game development, tools, software applications, websites, … [Read more...]

Technology Programming – Eutechnyx

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Client: Eutechnyx Eutechnyx is the world’s leading independent developer of racing videogames. Activities: Online game programming Web (server-side) programming Xbox 360 Leaderboard technology PS3 Leaderboard technology … [Read more...]

Game Programming

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Digital acorn Limited offers programming and project management services to the console games development industry. Peter Davies has been a computer programmer since the age of 11 - starting with basic and Z80 machine code on the ZX Spectrum. Having come fairly close to having an educational software title published at this age he left game programming alone for about 15 years until he had almost … [Read more...]

Website Repair

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A slow, ugly or malfunctioning website can do more harm than no website at all. Even a broken-link can send a potential customer straight back to the search engine to look for a competitor. A site which looks the business on the surface may have inefficiencies, errors or problems which only search engines pick-up on. These hidden penalties could be why your site is nowhere to be found on … [Read more...]

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