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ollyjackson | 5 years ago | on: On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project

Technical director of a LAMP stack creative agency here. This write-up almost exactly mirrors our experiences across Wordpress, Drupal and Craft. I think they've made an excellent choice.

If anyone from studio24 is reading this we've developed a Craft plugin for Varnish purging etc that we're using across multiple production deployments: https://github.com/Whitespacers/Citrus

ollyjackson | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Whitespace (https://whitespacers.com/) | Web Developer | Edinburgh, UK | Full time | On site

We are looking for an experienced Web Developer to join our Technical team. You’ll work closely with our Designers and Producers to produce enviable websites, interactives, and games.

We work with clients like: National Trust for Scotland, RAC, Glasgow Film Theatre, Kames Capital, Visit Scotland, Mary's Meals, ACCA, Scottish Government, Highland Spring, and Lothian Buses/Edinburgh Trams.

Here is a list of buzzwords to give you a flavour:

LAMP, Craft CMS, ExpressionEngine, Laravel, HTML5, jQuery, Webpack, Gulp, ES2016, Node, SASS, PHP, Composer, macOS, GIT, Basecamp, Slack.

https://whitespacers.com/careers/experienced-web-developer

Feel free to get in touch with me with any questions!

ollyjackson | 9 years ago | on: Google to Shut Down Google Site Search

This is not ideal. As far as I can see, there is now no programmatic API method for retrieving search results.