Blog

Between projects, we write about the things we've been working on, developer tutorials, and occasional opinion posts. This blog isn't updated particularly often - we're developers, not bloggers - but you might find our posts to be useful or interesting if you're a developer, or if you like to follow what we're up to.

You should also join us on social media where Kate posts our micro-updates a tad more often.

Tutorials

Unknown collation: utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci in MySQL and MariaDB

Almost every time we're migrating a WordPress website from one server to another, the database import initially fails with the following error:...

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Tutorials

Making URP Lit & TerrainLit shaders produce matching renders

In case you don't already know, I'm making an MMORPG, and in doing so I'm also learning Unity. I've been a programmer for a very long time but I'm not...

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Opinions

Debug magazine

As an indie game developer myself, I like to keep up with what other people are doing in the industry. The tools they're using, development methods an...

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QWeb

QWeb Ltd in 2023

We're half way through 2023 already. It's been over 10 years now since we opened and I'm not really sure where all of that time has gone! Embarrasingl...

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Apps & Tools

Android Custom Camera Preview for Corona SDK

We're building a mobile app for a client at the moment, and for a number of reasons chose Corona SDK as the development platform for this. Corona is i...

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Tutorials

Creating a Corona Native plugin with Android Studio

We picked up a new client project recently. Without going into too much detail, in a nutshell the brief is to develop a mobile app that incorporates a...

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Tutorials

Creating an isometric rig in Blender

(Updated November 2021 for Blender version 2.8 and later)...

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QWeb

QWeb's rebrand

Since incorporating back in February 2013 we've built websites and web based systems for hundreds of individuals and businesses. We love to see our de...

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Tutorials

Reading from a Facebook page with PHP

This is an old post and Facebook have since closed access to their XML feeds. It's still possible to access Facebook content via their APIs which we'l...

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Tutorials

Reading from a Twitter feed with PHP

This is an old post and Twitter's API is no longer freely accessible. We've kept it though, because it might still be useful to somebody....

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QWeb

Happy second birthday to QWeb!

It doesn't feel like a year since we were celebrating our first birthday, but it must have been, because today QWeb turns two!...

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Tutorials

Setting up a Barclaycard ePDQ account to use with Egg Basket

Barclaycard ePDQ is one of the easiest payment gateways to integrate into a website, but the merchant panel is a little overwhelming at first and, wit...

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