WebGen Services

15/02/2026

Yes the struggle is real!

30/08/2025

Luckily not all our clients!

18/04/2023

What does AI and progress mean to you?

And yet the steps got bigger very quickly. I feel privileged that I grew up on a world of black and white TV’s which soon became colour. Soon they were followed by home computers what a whopping 48k of RAM and a dizzying array of 16 colours! For comparison my next computer will have at […]

17/04/2023

We've added a What'sApp button so that you can reach out with your web development needs to WebGen{eration} - fire at will!

17/04/2023

AI - well would you look at that!

In a (non-technical & community) group I am in it was asked did anyone know someone who or how they could get to build a web app. Of course there was the mix of responses and even the knee jerk “Just Google it!”. Some of us tech people tried to ask questions and it soon […]

11/05/2022

Hey if it works, it works!

08/04/2022

Why do we love the Sunshine (aka Silicon) Coast? Today's multi tasking was coding from the beach with eggs benny and a small bucket of coffee!

03/12/2021

Some clients have needs for on premise servers. Even though we are primarily cloud developers we still support hardware from time to time. Please ignore the iron in the background! Even work from home geeks iron their shirts when the they have lunch with their mother!

This one we are testing so it can be sold. If you are buying second hand server hardware beware as many vendors will sell as parts to get more money. For example this one some would sell the hard disks, disk caddies, the hardware RAID card, one of the PSU's (Power Supply Units) and rack rails as seperate items.

Just make sure you read the full specs on the advert before buying. (FWIW we don't do this and advise our clients not to because you are going to lose margin on the time to break things apart and ship seperately).

29/11/2021

Passwords can be difficult to make complex but still easy to remember. One way is to write a cipher - a fancy term for basic encryption. Pick your own questions for example: Favourite colour/pet name/birth town/mother's name.

blue
diggy
adelaide
wendy

Then swap out the "easy" numbers and other characters making vowels capitals:

b|U3
d!ggy
@!d3
w3ndy

Now read vertically:

bd@w|!d3Ugdn (First 3 columns).

The benefits of this is that you only have to remember the questions and their order. (and your swapping rules) but also it's a very complex password. After a could of goes at it you will remember it anyway.

For added protection you could add the web site:

bd@w|!d3Ugdn-li (LinkedIn)
bd@w|!d3Ugdn-fb (Facebook)

What ever your method make sure that you update it from time to time. With the method above you could just choose the columns in different orders.

Stay safe!

09/11/2021

Hump day fun!

This is a Roman arch and still used in construction (unlike CRT monitors!)

15/10/2021

Is it plugged in? Users hate that question but there is a reason we ask. It's called the OSI model. It isn't literal but it is a valid model. To paraphrase it is a stack that starts at the physical layer (is it plugged in!) and ends at the application layer (is what you trying to use actually working).

We had a client reach out for assistance yesterday because their sites were slow or unresponsive. Our approach was asymmetric to the model (now you know why geeks have two monitors). Basically it's top down and bottom up to the OSI model. Firstly we check things like DNS to make sure their sites can be found. All good there. The sites sometimes worked as they should and seconds later would hang and not load.

We spun up an instance in their ISP and tried to replicate their web server's experience. We had the same issues. It would work now and then and drop out seconds later. Running a traceroute to the server was flawless regardless of the web server being available or not.

This is the difference that expertise and discipline provides. Traceroute uses ICMP as a protocol and not HTTP/HTTPS. Knowing this we could identify that the problem was upstream and not with our client's servers.

As we don't have access to our client's ISP but given the on again/off again results it would one of their round robin load balancers for HTTP/HTTPS was not working (this is like when you go to a hotel and your not sure which one of the 3 staff you should stand in front of to check in).

Whilst we may seem to ask dumb questions we acytally don't. We follow strict protocols so you don't have to know about them. Sure it may be that we have a rigid language but that is so we are consistent. By all means call your mouse a hampster - seriously we can adapt to that.

23/09/2021

We are hiring. We seek a padawan with HTML/CSS skills as an apprentice.

You will need to be strong with the ways of reading the documentation. Skills we give you; build on much talents you have.

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