News
The day to day goings on of Interconnect IT that we think are worth sharing with our readers.
Welcome to Grégoire – Our 2017 Summer Intern
This summer we are happy to welcome Grégoire Linot, as our 2017 Computer Science summer intern. We distracted Greg from his summer project for ten minutes, for a quick question and answer session.
Embrace the lunch break and unlock your full potential
Before Andrea became a developer he was a chef. And as you will see, he’s still pretty passionate about food. Here he shares his personal opinions about the importance of a good lunchtime meal.
Has Business Blogging run its Course?
We’ve been blogging since 2007. From backend dev tutorials to posts about daily life, you name it, we’ve written about it. But has the world of business blogging run its course?
Team Building: A Day of Culture
As a bit of a change to the usual action-packed teambuilding adventures, I thought it might be interesting to go on a more slow-paced, ‘cultural’ tour around our local city of Liverpool.
30 Years of Information Technology
There was a scary realisation at a recent company meeting, when someone pointed out that I should write about my thirty years of experience in IT.
Working with Liverpool Girl Geeks in 2017
If you work in the tech industry around the Liverpool area, you may be aware of the work Liverpool Girl Geeks are doing to help to reduce the gender gap in the tech and IT industry.
No, those animations won’t change the way we read the news
Our Senior Designer, Anthony Casey, looks at why you want your site to be more 60s Dieter Rams Braun, than 90s Aiwa.
My Career So Far
I’ve been working at interconnect/it for over three years now and in that time I have progressed from apprentice to developer. I thought it may be helpful to write about my experience, to encourage others just starting out in the industry.
Breaking into the magic of search engines
We have been doing some really neat R&D work for clients recently, focusing on the WordPress search functionality. This is the first in a series of articles I am intending to write on the subject of search engines.
Our Go Ape adventure
To celebrate the company’s 20 year anniversary, we decided to go on a tree-mendous team-building day at Go Ape in Delamere forest! Check out Laurie’s write up and some photos from the day.
How do we create something pretty useful, not just pretty and useless?
We feel it’s important to stay up to date with the latest industry best practice. Last month we headed to NUX5 to hear from our industry’s opinion leaders on the subject of user experience.
Twenty years of interconnect/it – and did you know we started as publishers?
On our twentieth anniversary we stop for a moment and think back over the success of the company; The clients we’ve helped, the friends in the web development industry we’ve made…