We are really chuffed!
We are really pleased to tell you that after a tough selection process, we've been chosen by a £300m business travel company to build and develop their website including individual client portals.
Working with their chosen creative team, the site will bring in information from many sources that are relevant to each client, integrate with booking platforms and feature our CMS as the central hub.
Why us?
Our client looked at many options, then chose Minted Box to build their new website and replace their existing CMS with ours, having been impressed with it's scalability, simple interface and integration potential.
Can we help you?
We are delighted with this news and it shows that our innovation and expertise can help customers achieve any digital development projects they embark on.
We love to work with interesting ideas so just call us to find out how we can help.
Why Facebook Uses MySQL for Timeline
A little-known fact about Facebook Timeline: It relies onMySQL, a database-management system that was originally designed to be used in small-scale applications on just one or a few machines — a far cry from the 800+ million users of the world’s largest social network. What gives?
In this report from Wired, Serkan Piantino, who will be in charge of Facebook’s New York engineering office, reveals that Facebook turned to MySQL to help address the memory needs of Timeline, since it works in a fundamentally different way from the news feed.
Since Timeline is more concerned about organizing data neatly than shooting out updates in real time, MySQL is well suited for the app.
“A lot of people are surprised that for this shiny new thing for Facebook, we’re using MySQL,” Piantino toldWired. “We treat [MySQL] as a generic engine for data manipulation. We use it as a storage engine. And it’s really efficient.
Facebook is constantly working on improving its MySQL implementation, however, and even has a page dedicated to the issue. It’s quite active, and has over 74,000 members.
Work Experience leads to full time job
Minted Box has just employed a young work experience girl recommended to them by Aldershot Job Centre.
Janet Weller had recently been made redundant and was looking for further work. With a keen interest in website coding and graphic design, an eight-week work experience placement led to Janet’s successful appointment with the company.
Janet proved to be hard working, enthusiastic and keen to learn. In a short space of time she was working on a number of quite complicated projects and developing a keen interest in the company and services that Minted Box provides.
Iain Bell a Director of Minted Box says: “I can highly recommend taking on work experience candidates. It doesn’t cost a company anything to take on the staff and it’s a great way to discover some of the amazing young talent that is out there. Today’s young people need all the support they can get in the job market today and this is one way employers can help. Janet is an asset to our company.”