About this website…
A vast number of different products and services have been used to design and produce this website. Many of them are industry standards but some are more exotic. Special thanks go out to the creators and companies listed below.
Typography
House Industries – The Sign Painter font collection of six display typefaces is used extensively across the site for page titles, headings and animations.
Code
jQuery – the JavaScript library we use for HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and AJAX interactions. It's saved us countless hours on front end development time and made a lot of the "eye candy" on this site possible. The Jcrop plugin for jQuery has also been used to add image cropping functionality.
Python – a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development.
Raphaël – another JavaScript library that we use to rotate images and create other vector effects. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy – if you ask us, its succeeding!
Software
Atlassian – JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo are some of the great products from Atlassian that we use on a daily basis.
Jetty – an open-source, standards-based, full-featured web server implemented entirely in Java. It is released under the Apache 2.0 licence and is therefore free for commercial use and distribution.
Maven – a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
Ubuntu Linux Server Edition – known and loved by us for its robust installations, reliable performance and predictable evolution.
Wordpress – a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. We should also give Akismet some thanks for catching all the comment spam!
Services
Amazon Web Sevices – We use a variety of cloud based services for storage and batch processing of data. As long as they are up and running we are up and running!
Zimbra – Open source server software for collaboration - we use it for email and managing our crazy schedules.