Freshleaf training – business ethics
Here at Freshleaf two of the things we’re proud of are our commitment to training, and our business ethics. So recently, when we had a training slot scheduled, we decided to combine the two...
A thoroughly festive outing
Well, the festive season really is upon us (complete with rain and gale force winds!) – and what better way to celebrate, than with a fantastic five star three course lunch? We’ve been to some...
A day at the farm
It might not be where you’d expect to find web developers, but High Mead Farm was our destination last week for a spot of volunteering. High Mead is an amazing place – a working farm community...
Git Workflow, Deployment and Hooks
Git Deployment We use a simple post-receive git hook to make a production ready repository that we can push to from our local machines. We’ve also setup SSH keys on the servers we deploy to so...
We’re recruiting – calling PHP developers in Dorset!
Join the team – we’re on the hunt for an experienced PHP developer to help shape our dev team. We’re looking for an in-depth knowledge of PHP, MySQL etc, along with experience with MVC...
Ubuntu server 12 stuck at the grub boot menu waiting for key press
Our local headless VirtualBox server (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS) fails to boot some mornings, waiting for a key-press. It appears that grub is configured, out of the box, to halt, if there are prior boot...
Undo-ing ‘git reset hard’
Chances are, you’re here because like me, you ran git reset --hard HEAD on your last hour or two’s worth of work. If you’re lucky then hopefully you ran git add . or added your files to the...
CASE Expressions, for complex Order Bys in SQL
So here’s the problem I was having: I wanted to order a set of data by Date End, with ‘date_end’ a datetime column in our database. However, the data could also be 00-00-0000 00:00:00 – which...