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• Getting your message through

  Since 2012, Flo Apps Ltd has used a number of subcontractors to deliver transactional emails. These companies include Mailgun Mailjet (recently acquired by Mailgun) Mandrill (part of Mailchimp) SendinBlue Twilio Sendgrid Throughout the years, Mandrill has been our number one email provider. They did have a major blackout in February 2019 but have mended their […]

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  • Published by Tapio Nurminen on April 17th, 2020

• WordPress: valmisteemalla vaiko ei?

  WordPress-sivustoja voidaan rakentaa kahdella eri tavalla, joko alusta asti asiakkaan tarpeisiin räätälöitynä kokonaisuutena tai kolmannen osapuolen kehittämällä valmisteemalla. Valmisteemalla tarkoitetaan jostakin WordPress-teemakaupasta hankittua teemaa, jossa sisällön ja muiden ominaisuuksien hallinta toteutetaan yleensä lisäosien avulla. Kuten Aucorin Tommi Sipiläinen keväällä kirjoitti, nämä kaksi leiriä elävät suurimmaksi osaksi omissa kuplissaan erillä toisistaan. Houkutukset Usein valmisteemojen kohdalla houkutteleviksi […]

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  • Published by Hermanni Piirainen on October 30th, 2019

• Ready, Test, Go

  In application development changes are made constantly. To make sure new features don’t break existing functionalities, running automated tests regularly helps catch any issues early on. At Flo Apps Ltd we run weekly tests on our systems. We check out the latest changes from version control, run end-to-end and integration tests (to ensure the application […]

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  • Published by Paul Villavicencio on March 12th, 2019

• How to choose hosting partners?

  I was one of the panelists at Turku WordCamp 2018, speaking on what things to take into account when choosing a web hosting partner. Here’s some of the things I tend to compare: Support Problems raise their ugly head, sooner or later, one way or the other. It makes sense to test hosting providers’ support […]

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  • Published by Tapio Nurminen on October 9th, 2018

• Kuinka hyödyntää pankkien WebServices-rajapintoja?

  Yksi kiitetyimmistä ominaisuuksista FloMembers-jäsenrekisterissämme on mahdollisuus päivittää maksutiedot koneellisesti pankkien WebServices-rajapintojen yli. Hyödynnämme siirrossa nykyään enimmäkseen avoimen lähdekoodin SEPA-kirjastoa, jonka jatkokehitykseen olemme hieman itsekin osallistuneet. Meillä on edelleen käytössä myös pari meidän luomaa PHP-luokkaa datan tuontiin Nordeasta ja Samlink-pankeista, mutta emme enää kehitä niitä. Keräsimme pari vuotta sitten Google Spreadsheet -taulukoksi eri pankkien WS-rajapintadokumentaatiota. Ehkä […]

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  • Published by Tapio Nurminen on February 28th, 2018

• Data visualizations with ReactJS

  In the past two years, we developed interactive visualization tools in the CAP (Collaborative Analytics Platform) project. The project came to an end in late 2016. We have now created and published a demo, intertwining the different components developed in the project. We main tool that we used was the ReactJS library. The main purpose of ITEA‘s […]

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  • Published by Tapio Nurminen on August 11th, 2017

• Slush little baby

  SLUSH 2016 was held at Messukeskus, Helsinki on November 30th and December 1st, with around 17,000 attendees. Organizers had given a lot of attention to the environment, from eco-friendly waste management to the decorations made out of recycled materials. One of this year’s novelties was the “Speaker Studio”, a space where selected speakers talked about […]

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  • Published by Tapio Nurminen on December 31st, 2016

• Smells and sounds at the EUREKA Innovation Week

  The EUREKA Innovation Week was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in late April 2016. EUREKA is a platform which brings together industry and academia from different countries into thematic clusters to foster innovation. The EUREKA clusters are groups of small and large companies as well as research institutions who share efforts to develop new ideas and […]

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  • Published by Paul Villavicencio on June 9th, 2016

• Visualizing in Valencia

  In November I had the opportunity to travel with Tapio Nurminen to Valencia, Spain as part of the CAP (Collaborative Analytics Platform) Review organized by ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement). We participated along with other partner institutions and presented a product demonstration we had developed for the project. For most of our stay in […]

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  • Published by Paul Villavicencio on February 19th, 2016

• HybridConf – or how to dodge the buzzword trap

  The third annual HybridConf, a web design and development event, was this time arranged in Dublin, Ireland. The two previous events have been held in Cardiff and Stockholm. The core elements of HybridConf are inspiration, motivation and collaboration, and that truly showed. HybridConf was really able to take advantage of its small size by providing […]

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  • Published by Hermanni Piirainen on December 23rd, 2015