Patchrobe is delighted to be continuing works with Chris Hancock's team at Nyble Digital to launch The Propagator - a crowdfunding website targeted at technology startups. More news soon...
2 years 17 weeks ago
The Sunseeker Crew Access site is now live at http://jobs.sunseekercrew.com
It's some work of which Patchrobe is rightly proud. Every single component of the job, from the business analysis, hardware specification and building the web and mail servers to the custom CMS module development and graphic design - absolutely everything was produced in-house.
We're delighted with it as a portfolio piece and the response from Sunseeker has...
2 years 21 weeks ago
As we draw to the end of the year, it's time to put together the Dick's Sand Bar DVD compilation. Used as marketing tools for the beach side bar in Hossegor, south-west France, these videos document the show and party-carnage of the year. Included here below are three of my favourites - the DC All in Show (where crowds gather to watch maniacs hurl motorcycles through the air) and the Halloween and Superhero fancy dress parties.
These films are typically shot using a Canon EOS 7D with...
2 years 21 weeks ago
The Sunseeker Crew jobs database has just passed UAT and will be productionised in the coming days.
There have been some interesting technical challenges covering Drupal CCK field module development, module development generally (in particular what can be done with hook_nodeapi and similar functions) and some rather unusual approaches to making sure the site is ready for future up-grades; these have been sufficiently generic in their application to be of possible use for others so I will try...
2 years 21 weeks ago
The annual wrestle with the vagaries of HTML emails has yielded the latest delivery of Sunseeker Superyacht Management Christmas cards.
Delivered with PHPList, this card was tested against all of the major mail clients and consisted of an inline-styled table (RGB and hex values for all colours), a background on a TD element (as this is rendered inconsistently for TABLE tags) and transparent pngs. One day all mail clients will render HTML emails correctly and the same way, but we won't be...