“This is the the first post in the series, and each one will highlight a different component we developed for various projects throughout the year.

ThoughtFaqtory has been working on numerous projects this year and one of them required our team to develop a host of custom components with a specific look and feel. We had a couple of choices but we are very familiar with Degrafa and decided to use it to skin our components…”

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The articles titles are listed below with an excerpt for each:

Flex, PNGs, and PDFs…

At ThoughtFaqtory we are continually encouraged to think outside of the box when challenges are presented.  A challenge was set recently by a pretty innocuous requirement from one of our clients.

This project required me to implement functionality that would allow the end user to export groups of images to PDF. The PDF needed to be high quality, 300 ppi (pixels per inch). After some searching I came across the AlivePDF website which appeared to be perfect for my requirements. Initially after using AlivePDF to generate a few PDFs, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to use and I thought that I had found Utopia. My joy however was short lived after the following error message was received…

From Salesperson to Software Developer

My transformation started with ThoughtFaqtory nearly a year ago and before that I was a new vehicle salesperson with a propensity for pyrotechnics. . . like blowing things up! With a burning desire to be in the IT industry, but without an opportunity to make the move to becoming a software developer, I was up the river without a paddle! A couple of years ago the motor industry experienced a downward trend in sales, realizing that this maybe a blessing in disguise, a Plan B was necessary. While sitting on the sales floor watching tumble weeds roll past, I embarked on teaching myself Java, as I was more than willing to invest that time in my future.  By the end of last year I felt confident enough to find myself an employer that would be willing to take me on. ThoughtFaqtory was on my radar, through a newspaper editorial, and contacted Simon and Phil Barber. They offered me this huge opportunity to learn from within their company and then spent the next 6 months on a rigorous training program using Flex.

More to come soon!