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Meet-up: Chesterfield Digital Industries

Having worked in large digital agencies in Sheffield I know how important collaboration is in our industry. Informal events that bring creative ideas together is what makes a community of similar businesses great. Since setting up Magnifica 2 years ago I feel this is something that's missing here in Chesterfield.

Maybe there is something already, if so please let me know when and where as I'd love to attend.

If not I'd be interested in creating a Digital Industries meet-up in Chesterfield where businesses and freelancers from the digital sector can share experiences and promote their capabilities.

New starter: Introducing Owen Fisher

Today Magnifica welcomes a new member to our growing team of technology experts. Our new recruit is software developer Owen Fisher. Owen is a young, fresh-faced graduate from Sheffield Hallam University's. Graduating from the class of 2014 Owen is ready and raring to start solving technical problems here at Magnifica.

Owen will be working on a range of projects as well as looking after first line support and our support system - if you're an existing client you'll probably be hearing from Owen over the next few weeks.

Cross-site Request Forgery : 3 protective steps

Overlooking the risk of Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploits can leave your organisation's website or application vulnerable to attack. In this first in a series of security blogs we look at the steps developers can take to reduce the risk.

A successful CSRF exploit can compromise end user data and operation, when it targets a normal user. If the targeted end user is an administrator account, a CSRF attack can compromise the entire web application.

What is a CSRF exploit?

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is a type of security exploit where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user a website trusts, without the user’s knowledge. Because the command is carried out from the user’s computer attacks often go un-reported, as such there is rarely any evidence of the attack recorded in web server logs.

Training Course: Introduction to using SQL in your business

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a database programming language for querying information stored in a type of database that is popular for both web applications and for internal business systems.

As businesses gather and maintain more and more information in these types of databases new skills need to be learnt. Having the ability to retrieve and mine your companies data to make or validate business decisions is becoming increasingly important.

This course will provide you with an introduction on how you can query a SQL Server database to leverage the data within your companies systems.

No existing SQL knowledge is required. Familiarity with relational database concepts is helpful but not required, however you should have basic computing knowledge.

Magnifica software developers run a "Learn to Code" workshop

Find out what happened when 2 Magnifica software developers ran a 3 hour Learn to Code workshop!

About the workshop

At Magnifica we love to code. We also love sharing our knowledge and experience with other people.

That's why we decided to run a FREE "Learn to Code" Workshop in conjunction with Destination Chesterfield and Chesterfield Borough Council Innovation Support Project.

We hosted a fun, interactive workshop where 10 local business people learnt the basics of coding from two of our software developers. People left the session with a greater understanding of how the Internet works and a webpage they had hand coded themselves.

Testing Paym with the HSBC mobile app

We love new technology here at Magnifica so on the day a new system launches in the UK for sending payments to a mobile phone number we just had to give it a go. Paym allows individuals to send payments direct to another person using just their mobile number.

Using the HSBC mobile banking app I was quickly able to set up new service and send my first Paym payment to my brother over at @PHOTOSinCOLOR. Ed now owes me £1....maybe he'll test the system and send it back.

Find out how easy it is to set up below.