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Posts - 09/2009

September 25th, 2009

PCI DSS Compliance deadline

SagePay, one of our payment gateway partners has informed us that Visa and Mastercard have pushed for a 30th September PCI DSS compliance deadline (if you didn't get to see our recent blog article about PCI DSS compliance you can see it here). The rollout dates do vary from bank to bank.

September 4th, 2009

Fast and Responsive Flash: Loading Fonts on Demand

Embedded fonts can occupy as much as 100Kb per style, which can translate to several seconds of waiting on a slower internet connection. Fortunately, with a bit of work, we can persuade Flash to let us load in fonts as and when they’re required.

September 3rd, 2009

What happens when the 4.3 billion IP addresses are used up?

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is the unique numeric address that identifies a device on a computer network that supports the Internet Protocol. There are currently 4.3 billion unique addresses. Since the 1990s it has been a concern that, with the growth of the Internet, these addresses would soon be exhausted. 

With this in mind several solutions were identified, one of these was to create a new IPv6 128 bit standards based solution that would allow for 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.