On Friday 27th April, we were exhibiting at the Warrington Business Expo at the De Vere Village Hotel in Warrington and we thought we would write a short detail of our experiences. The day started nice and early with myself, Ian, Adrian … Continue reading
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SSHFS and Meld : Compare Remote Files Easily
If you’d asked me two years ago to compare a local file to one on a remote server, I would’ve simply SCP’d the file down and diff’d the two files. That’s pretty quick to do and it doesn’t take too … Continue reading
We’re Hiring Apprentice Web Developers!
Do you have an unforgiving passion for the web? Would you like to make a career out of your passion? Magma Digital Ltd are proud to announce that we are giving you the opportunity to do just that! How? We’re … Continue reading
Celebrating 13 Years in Business
This week, we celebrated our 13th year in business. Happy Birthday Magma Digital! We began back in 1999 and when Jeremy was setting up the business Mr. Oizo – Flatbeat was number one in the music charts. The Matrix and … Continue reading
The Whisky Web Ticket Competition Winner is…
Last week, we announced that we were giving away one free ticket to Whisky Web with two nights B&B. Magma Digital Ltd strongly believe in supporting the Web Community in anyway possible, that’s why we gave the chance to win … Continue reading
Win a Free Ticket to Whisky Web
The Competition Six of the Developers at Magma Digital Ltd will be heading up to Whisky Web on the 13th and 14th of April 2012 in Edinburgh. We strongly believe in supporting the web community and to show you just how … Continue reading
Jeremy Selected as a Speaker at phpDay 2012
We are pleased to announce that Jeremy, our Managing Director, has been selected as a speaker at another International PHP Conference. This will be his second international speaking engagement of the year and we hope that there will be more … Continue reading
The NHS story continues
Governing Council Priscilla Coates, Director at Magma Digital Ltd was inducted today into a voluntary position of Governing Council member for our local NHS Foundation Trust. Priscilla has a long history with the NHS and started her career working for … Continue reading
Our Developers are ZCE PHP 5.3 Certified
Jeremy, Adrian and Michael successfully passed the Zend PHP 5.3 certification exam and received the official credential of their expertise in PHP technology. The Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) certificate is the internationally acknowledged certification of PHP established by Zend Technologies … Continue reading
Linux server performance investigation toolkit
Following on from a talk I gave at PHPNW last year, here’s a summarised version of the tools and approaches we’ve used to track down performance issues. I’m not prescribing a specific order in which these tools are to be … Continue reading
Magma Digital in the Spotlight – An Interview with Jeremy
Jeremy Coates, our Managing Director, recently had an in-depth conversation with Karen Hands, a Teamwork coach from Thought into Action Ltd which was recorded and is available to anybody that signs up for their Distance Learning Package. Karen shared some of … Continue reading
PHP Benelux 2012 – a synopsis
We recently published a blog on how Jeremy Coates, our Managing Director, was one of the speakers at PHP Benelux 2012, an International Conference in Antwerp, Belgium on the 27th and 28th January 2012. The conference focuses on developers from around the world discovering the … Continue reading
Getting an ETA on a MySQL import
In the first of what will hopefully be a series of regular technical blog posts, I’ll discuss a little tool which has helped remove the mystery of when a MySQL import will finish. If, like me, mysqldump forms part of … Continue reading