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What WP plugins does a site use? Our tool have the answer!

We at Earth People have a bunch of WordPress plugins that we have developed over the years. Some of them are even pretty usable! That's why whenever we hear about…

Creating a mobile event experience using social connections

Red Bull asked us to come up with something mobile and social for their Red Bull Weekender event in Stockholm. We love music, and planned on going to this event…

Working around the IE9/IE8 XDR Post bug

When creating a REST-API for a client we ran across this really weird problem. IE8/IE9 can't make XMLHttpRequest to other domains via CORS. Microsoft invented their own solution for this…

Preventing overlapping cron jobs

From time to time, we're asked to fix broken sites built by other agencies. This can be extremely tricky, but if it's technologies we know and love (PHP, MySQL, Apache,…

More node.js game action

This small game idea felt like fun - there is a man walking at the bottom of your browser window. Adjust the size of the browser window to make the…

Quiz buttons in node.js

For our recent fall party we made a music quiz, and if you're quizzin you gotta have some buttonpressin. We looked for quiz buttons at teknikmagasinet, surprisingly we didn't find…

Web audio music game

After we did the rhythm experiment at Music Hackday we fooled around a bit more with the web audio synthesizer. It's pretty amazing that they got a built in synth in…

Scaling isn’t tweaking httpd.conf – our approach to high volume sites

Scaling servers is hard work, and neither of us comes from a devops background. Our approach to scaling starts well before that - with every decision a developer take when…

using social media as a cms

We recently launched andtherev.com, a new kind of bike shop/factory on Södermalm in Stockholm. The client wanted website users to be able to participate on the site, so instead of using a…

beer hacking

today it's ready: our own brew that puts "real" microbreweries to shame. this is a mere 12 bottles of what we hope is a fairly hoppy american pale ale. making…