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Author: Garry Viner

Garry Viner is the Director of Development and one of the founders of The Web Showroom. He has worked in IT since 1995 and has focussed on web since 1999.

At The Web Showroom he is still actively engaged in his first love, which is writing the code and creating the database objects that power virtually every web design created at TWS. When he feels like sharing, he also allows his other developers to contribute.

Garry is committed to keeping Mission Control at the forefront of hosted CMS’s in Australia, ensuring your business has the platform to reach all its online goals.

Integrating your Ecommerce store with MYOB by Garry Viner
in The Web Showroom
29 Aug 2012 | 0 Comments

One of the major areas into which we plan to extend our software over the next 12 months is that of integrations with third party systems. As of this moment, The Web Showroom CMS is integrated with SecurePay, Eway, Paypal and many of Australia’s leading banks as part of our Ecommerce checkout ...Read More
The evolution of our web company's culture by Garry Viner
in The Web Showroom
18 May 2012 | 0 Comments

I am very lucky to work for The Web Showroom. I’ve always been interested in the work that I do and I’ve always enjoyed working with my partners in the business David and James. Over the years we’ve watched as our company has grown from a handful of people to its current size,...Read More
Using the load balancer cache in web development by Garry Viner
in Web Technology
8 May 2012 | 0 Comments

We are currently getting some really positive results from caching on our load balancer. We currently have 3 web servers, load balanced in a weighted round-robin configuration, set up in such a way as to direct the same amount of traffic to each. The load balancer is a Stingray 8.1, and has the...Read More
How to use Jquery to modify html by Garry Viner
in Web Development
15 Mar 2012 | 0 Comments

I thought I’d write about some cool examples of JQuery that we came up with recently. We’re in the habit of using it consistently throughout the application for certain recurring coding issues such as Animating images Form validation, using the validate() method Dynamic population of...Read More
Application Review and Caching for Web Development by Garry Viner
in Web Development
23 Feb 2012 | 0 Comments

Last week was very interesting and since we are regarded as one of the top website design companies in Sydney, we are always watching the latest web development news. With the application growing quickly, we thought it was time to take a break from the rapid pace of various web development, and...Read More
Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 2 by Garry Viner
in Web Development
12 Dec 2011 | 0 Comments

Last time I talked about how a website development company should attempt to reduce the frequency of unwelcome bots crawling their sites, and explained how in our case we are using Project Honeypot to blacklist suspect IP addresses. So what does it mean for us to mark an IP address as blacklisted?...Read More
Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 1 by Garry Viner
in Web Development
28 Nov 2011 | 0 Comments

As our business has grown over the past few years we have seen the expected and welcome result of increased traffic to our sites. The downside to all this activity is the extra pressure it puts on our application, both in terms of increased load on the database, and increased bandwidth. Now this is ...Read More
Refactoring - to do or not to do by Garry Viner
in Web Development
18 Oct 2011 | 0 Comments

Every developer dreams of having the perfect code base. Code that is at all times simple, re-usable, well-documented, and most importantly, working. Every developer also knows that this is unachievable. No matter how well-planned, code will always be written that is not perfect. This is not because ...Read More
Upgrades to Mission Control by Garry Viner
in The Web Showroom
15 Oct 2011 | 0 Comments

At The Web Showroom we are very proud of the content management system (CMS) that we have developed over a number of years. Typically web companies give their CMS a nice pompous name, and we are no exception, with our Mission Control. Some of the boxes that a good CMS needs to tick include: The...Read More
How to Protect Your Data by Garry Viner
in Website Advice
25 Aug 2011 | 0 Comments

As attractive as the design and layout of a website may be, by far the most important component is the data. Whether customer details, product listings, order history or blog posts, it is vital that a site owner be sure that all their important business information is protected. And the data that...Read More

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