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Our journey implementing GraphQL in PHP - the honeymoon and the post-honeymoon period

We're pleased to announce that BlueSky Digital Labs and Horizon Digital have officially joined forces on Monday 1 May 2023.

Last night at the 29th Belmont & WA Small Business Awards, BlueSky won the *Business Person of the Year* category.

As we know technology is improving every single day and this means there is more of an opportunity to use this to your advantage, especially in the business world.

At the beginning of the year, some final year Computer Science and Software Engineering students from Curtin University were tasked to create a custom API testing suite for their Capstone project, with BlueSky.

The Wrestling Australia 2022 National Championships was yesterday, and it was streamed live on YouTube. We here at BlueSky were all excited because Karen "Kray" Gregory was competing - and she was the youngest competitor so far!

BlueSky won an award at the 28th Belmont & Western Australia Small Business Awards 2021 last night!

In our industry, the question we get often asked is custom software development for us? If you have a look at any type of industry everyone has a unique way of positioning their products and services. The way the business sells their products, the customer relationship management system that stores all their data, the internal system for their staff which is unique to their industry, and more.

Experience what the software part of app development is at BlueSky

Beacons are the future of marketing and offer a unique way of interacting with your customers through their Smartphone. They are essentially a positioning system device with a small wireless transmitter which are able to send a signal through Bluetooth, called Bluetooth Low Energy BLE for short.

Flutter has been created and owned by Google, which is a cross-platform development tool coming from a single code base. This means to write the code once and deploy it across all the different platforms such as iOS, Android, and Web.

How to achieve success for your business by aligning all aspects of the business; technology, people and process.

Two recent use cases to better understand what BlueSky Digital Labs offers and where our place is in the market.

Top 3 Tips: Technology Development for Small, Medium Businesses. Is the cost of a commercial development team too expensive for my business?

The <picture> tag can be used for more than just swapping images for responsiveness

Get your website clients to easily test their website responsiveness

And I created my first CSS image sprite in more than 10 years!

A new bluetooth beacon based project for the BlueSky team.

How to use CSS only for gradients on your text

The new and improved Froponds system is now live.

Quality work and a good client relationship will stand the test of time.

The latest Fomantic UI release is available now, which "fixes serious display bugs in dropdown, modal on Firefox, icons and image/basic labels"

Upgrading to Fomantic UI version 2.8.5

A Day in Code - a picture book written in code. This Kickstarter campaign is definitely something we at BlueSky can get behind.

Important message from our Directors regarding COVID-19

BlueSky Digital Labs was a finalist at the 26th Belmont & Western Australian Small Business Awards 2019.

The one "spot" for you to easily copy (and paste) Lorem Ipsum text

Tool to assist you in reporting (to us) your browser's viewport

Building a client website using the Semantic UI framework.

The latest version of React is 16.8, and our development team is currently in the process of switching over to this latest version.

Be sure to claim your Google My Business custom (short) URL for your verified business listing.

BlueSky was recently given a tour of the newly built luxury apartment The Crest in Burswood. Our directors were also allowed access to the rooftop area to marvel at the amazing views of the surrounding area.

Our Director Riz made a point to use the AR functionality of Google Maps during his recent trip to Tokyo, Japan.

Our new company shirts have arrived, and we have two of our recent team additions to show both colour variations off!

Work at BlueSky can sometimes be fun, like our most recent project with the Microsoft HoloLens.

BlueSky partnered with Epicuest to develop for Skywalk, a solution which involved the use of Beacon Technology with both Andoid and iOS mobile apps, to translate information to guests, in their preferred language.

A behind the scenes look at the challenges we faced when dealing with a shape sorting problem when exploring how custom development breaks new ground. This article is for the mathematically minded reader who enjoys exploring the formulas, models and calculations that we used to solve this complex problem.

BlueSky is proud to announce their sponsorship of Subiaco AFC, a grassroots community sports club nased in Perth, Western Australia.

When you're developing a new idea for an app, system or product it can be daunting to know where to start. The number of software packages available for use is growing every day! Most of the average problems you're looking to solve will generally have an open source solution out there somewhere, but when it comes to new concepts, it can leave you vulnerable to sloppy development practices.

With the arrival of smart phones, the average person has more computing power at their fingertips than NASA had for the Apollo 11 moon landing! As technology evolves, we expect more from it, hence we're always looking for the next big thing!

Front-end frameworks are meant to help you quickly get started building a new website. Popular ones include Bootstrap, Foundation, and even Semantic UI. But a question we constantly get is - "which of these are the best to use"?

BlueSky signals a new phase for the team, where we embrace our vision to become Australia's leading online custom solutions developer.