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

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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News

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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Business

Growing up

As we work our way through the second half of our second year in business, we've noticed that it feels a lot like growing up. We're no longer a brand...

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News

Our 18 month-iversary

Tomorrow, QWeb will be 18 months old!...

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Tutorials

Setting up a Paypal account to use with an IPN enabled shopping cart

Paypal is one of the nicest platforms to take online payments through. A developer can build Paypal integration in to just about any website relativel...

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Tutorials

How to use Gmail with POP3

Gmail is an awesome web based email application with a range of great features such as an excellent spam filter, plenty of storage and, of course, ama...

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Tutorials

Alternative to Google's currency conversion API

This is an old post about a service that's since been discontinued. We've kept it though, because some of the attached comments might still be useful...

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News

Shaking things up

We've been going through a few changes at QWeb in the last few weeks, some big and some not so big....

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Tutorials

Wordpress plugins tutorial

This week's tutorial covers Wordpress plugins. Wordpress is an out of the box development environment which was originally used as a blogging and CMS...

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Tutorials

Update all your social networks at once

We've been posting to our Twitter account which is linked to our Facebook page, so posting to Twitter updates both. However, we were neglecting our Li...

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Tutorials

How to install Sphinx on CentOS

Sphinx is a search engine that you can use instead of directly accessing your databases. The concept is quite simple, you tell Sphinx how to create in...

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