frag.co.uk

30/06/2021

We’re celebrating our 27th year with a new site design, with a focus on Core Web Vitals, SEO, and site speed.

We're celebrating our 27th year with a new site design! As always we're still writing code! Site speed is becoming more of a metric for websites, and it's

06/04/2019

I checked, it really has been 25 years. 🥳
Probably should celebrate, but we have websites to write!

04/11/2018

"Detecting Agile BS" - a Department of Defense guide

The USA’s Department of Defense has a Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program to safeguard information. Under the DIB CS Program, DoD and DIB participants share cyber threat information. In October, the group released a detailed guide on one of our favourite topics, Agile software...

12/10/2018

Last Wednesday, Yale's "unplanned maintenance" caused some people to be locked out of their homes.

On Wednesday, October 10th, it was reported in the Daily Mail and The Register that the security company Yale had unplanned network maintenance which caused their cloud service to go offline for 24 hours. Please bear with us, we apologise for any inconvenience caused. *Please note this issue affects...

09/09/2018

Google Chrome has recently made the unpopular move to fundamentally change how URLs are shown in the browser; hiding both www. and m. ANYWHERE in the URL.

Google Chrome has recently made the unpopular move to fundamentally change how URLs are shown in the browser. In almost all browsers (except Safari, below), the full URL is shown in the address bar, https protocol and all. However, with version 69 of the Google Chrome browser, a change has been made...

27/08/2018

Alongside checking your backups are working, updating your systems, checking for viruses, ... are you S3 buckets private or public?

Alongside checking your backups are working, updating your systems, checking for viruses, and all the other monthly tasks, it’s easy to overlook simple security areas of your network and storage. Over the past few months, there have been a deluge of exposed Amazon S3 buckets which have been expose...

11/07/2018

Blogs! They’re important for your SEO! This blog post has been kindly provided by Alex O’Neil of fantasoft.co.uk Alex runs one of the few honest and friendly social advertising and blog authoring companies around.
https://frag.co.uk/2018/07/11/good-seo-worthy-blog-post/

This blog post has been kindly provided by Alex O’Neil of https://fantasoft.co.uk/. Alex runs one of the few honest and friendly social advertising and blog authoring companies around. He is a talented and funny writer, human, and former-child, and already proved to be a fantastic member of our te...

31/03/2018

Easy to remember - 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
Who do you trust more? Your ISP, Google, or Cloudflare?

It’s heavily rumoured that Amazon-owned Cloudflare will soon be announcing a Public DNS server. Their website, every1dns.com is currently empty, but Google have a cached version of the site available. The two DNS servers, easier to remember than Googles are said to be 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. Accordin...

27/02/2018

You can't search for 'nerf gun' on Google Shopping.
Are word-filters ever a good idea?

As of recently, Google have ‘broken’ Google Shopping. It appears they have set up a blacklist of words which cannot be used in searches. The problem is commonly called the Scunthorpe Problem. This is where certain words or phrases are caught by a spam filter or search engine because the words us...

12/02/2018

Over the weekend, thousands of websites around the world, including the UK's NHS and ICO and the US Government Court system, were compromised, and caused visitors to mine crypto-coins. For websites and developers, there is a solution!

Over the weekend, thousands of websites around the world, including the UK’s NHS and ICO and the US Government Court system, were compromised, and caused visitors to mine crypto-coins – generating money for the miscreants. These sites were using a popular plugin called Browsealoud. Their support...

03/01/2018

Autoplay is changing! Users should never expect to hear music playing on page load, unless they have enabled it. For site admins, your videos and audio can never automatically play on a website. Sorry!

It’s an ongoing debate – users do not like videos to autoplay (apart from YouTube), and designers want their website to feature their video and audio immediately on visiting the page. In the distant past, this has often been ‘solved’ by using Adobe Flash to play videos. Browsers soon caught ...