Author archive: Neil Middleton

Neil Middleton
March 23, 2012

Internationalisation with Rails

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending time working on applications which require internationalisation.

It’s something I’ve done before, but not to the level that the requirements for this current project requested. Therefore I’ve had to do a certain amount of figuring out and prototyping to figure out some of the edge cases, but I think now I have a relatively good pattern that can be repeated further down the line on other projects.

Hosting Kyan.com

It’s now been a week or so since we put the new Kyan.com live and we’ve been getting nothing but rave reviews from everyone who has seen the site. Whilst this is an amazing thing for us to get, it does come with some added side affects, namely the thirty thousand visitors we’ve had from around the globe coming in to see the new site for themselves.

Neil Middleton
October 05, 2011

We’re now a Heroku development partner!

As of today, we’re pleased to be able to call ourselves a Heroku development partner!.

Heroku is fast becoming our deployment platform of choice for our applications and this partnership means we can get early access to the new features that are coming to the platform on an almost daily basis as well as increased support from Heroku themselves.

Neil Middleton
September 21, 2011

One web, one app

At Kyan we’re getting more and more requests for mobile application development. This is pretty unsurprising as you may expect given that lots of people now have smartphones in their pockets more powerful than the computers that sent man to the moon.

Neil Middleton
August 21, 2011

Doing lots of things - fast

Recently, we’ve been spending a lot of time looking into the corners of the web that a lot of other agencies don’t often get the chance to – that of the high performance web. In essence, I’m talking the concept of doing lots of little things fast. Very fast.