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Zoocha team members become AWS Certified Solutions Architects
Titi, Alex and Dave managed to achieve this Associate version certification by passing an 80 minute exam consisting of 55 multiple choice questions at an approved AWS testing centre. The exam tested our knowledge, understanding and practical application know-how for being able to make and carry out recommendations in the following areas: Migration of existing…
Mar 12, 2018 Zoocha team members become AWS...News
Introducing Zoocha Brazil
Not only is Balneário Camboriú an idyllic place to be located, it also sits within close proximity to the highly regarded university of Vale do Itajaí and University of Santa Catarina which is geared towards producing graduates in Computer Science. It is also near Sapiens Parque, Brazil’s largest Technology Centre aka Brazil’s Silicon Valley! With a timezone that sits…
Feb 16, 2018 Introducing Zoocha BrazilDrupal,
Web Development
Extending Twig Templates with Blocks in Drupal 8
One of the many good things about Drupal 8 is the introduction of Twig. It's a lovely templating engine that, in my opinion, is far superior to PHPTemplate. For us frontenders, it has a much nicer user syntax that's more akin to handlebars or other JS templating engines. Imagine this scenario (I'm sure many developers have encountered this before): you're building a…
Feb 14, 2018 Extending Twig Templates with Blocks...Web Development,
Hosting
Serverless traffic maps monitoring
Overview This is a small serverless app I created to take screenshots of particular coordinates on Google Maps with the traffic layer applied to it in order to track how the traffic changes during my commute. The idea is to load the map on a simple static website hosted on S3, then using a lambda function take a screenshot of the map every 5 minutes for 2 hours and…
Jan 2, 2018 Serverless traffic maps monitoringDrupal,
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Zoocha awarded ISO 27001:2013 certification
Just like quality, as we discussed in our post about our recent ISO 9001 certification , trust is one of our core values at Zoocha. An important part of this is ensuring our clients can trust that we are looking after their data effectively. As we already adhere to the government-backed Cyber Essentials Plus scheme , the logical next step was to tackle ISO:27001. ISO…
Nov 21, 2017 Zoocha awarded ISO 27001:2013 certificationDrupal,
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Zoocha awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification
Quality, of course, is something that needs to be demonstrated rather than just talked about. So, earlier this year we set out on a journey to prove that we could practice what we preach by starting the process to become ISO certified. It’s worth pointing out it was key for us that the certification would be based around our existing project management methodology…
Nov 21, 2017 Zoocha awarded ISO 9001:2015 certificationDesign,
UX & Web Design
World Usability Day UXPA event - Inclusion through User Experience
A quick post from me to share some key points from the UXPA event last night to coincide with World Usability Day 2017 . The event theme was 'Inclusion through User Experience' and there were three talks, each giving insights into the incredible work the speakers are doing. First up was Dr Simone Stumpf from City University talking about using technology for Self-care…
Nov 10, 2017 World Usability Day UXPA event...Design,
UX & Web Design
World Usability Day - 09 November 2017
In case you hadn't guessed, today is World Usability Day and you may be thinking "Why are you telling me this?", "Usability is nothing new?" or even "Argh, where's the 'back' button!? I didn't mean to click this link!!". The simple answer to these questions is: usability matters. It matters because by making something usable we immediately enable more people to use it…
Nov 9, 2017 World Usability Day - 09...UX & Web Design
Exploring design innovation in a tourism website
In this article we will explore the site and how its execution is something to be admired from a design perspective. Then we will look at its function and how effective the site might be in driving tourism. Design and navigation The immaculate design and navigation achieves an impressive sense of natural beauty through its attention to clean layout in a modern style…
Oct 25, 2017 Exploring design innovation in a...