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Join us for here on the blog where we share our thoughts, ideas and conversations. We explore the topics that matter to you, from emerging technology to systems and solutions, bring your curiosity, questions and an open mind ...

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Implementing GraphQL in PHP | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Implementing GraphQL in PHP

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

programming Custom Solutions
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BlueSky Digital Labs & Horizon Digital join forces | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky Digital Labs & Horizon Digital join forces

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

BlueSky wins Business Person of the Year Award at the Belmont Business Awards 2022 | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky wins Business Person of the Year Award at the Belmont Business Awards 2022

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

Benefits of Automating in your business | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Benefits of Automating in your business

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.

Custom Solutions Systems Automation
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Curtin Capstone project presentation at BlueSky | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Curtin Capstone project presentation at BlueSky

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.

BASED at the Wrestling Australia 2022 National Championships | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BASED at the Wrestling Australia 2022 National Championships

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!

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BlueSky wins the Innovation Award at the Belmont Business Awards 2021 | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky wins the Innovation Award at the Belmont Business Awards 2021

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

Advantages of Custom Software Development | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Advantages of Custom Software Development

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.

Custom Solutions
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Five steps to creating a mobile application | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Five steps to creating a mobile application

Experience what the software part of app development is at BlueSky

Custom Solutions Apps mobile app
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What is Beacon Technology? | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
What is Beacon Technology?

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.

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What is Flutter and Why We Use it to Build Software Applications? | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
What is Flutter and Why We Use it to Build Software Applications?

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.

Custom Solutions mobile app Apps programming BlueSky ideas
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Is Innovation key to Business Success? | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Is Innovation key to Business Success?

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

Custom Solutions Apps beacons BlueSky ideas
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Case studies on two recent BlueSky Projects | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Case studies on two recent BlueSky Projects

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

Apps programming Systems BlueSky ideas Custom Solutions
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Top 3 Tips: Technology Development for Small, Medium Businesses | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Top 3 Tips: Technology Development for Small, Medium Businesses

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

Using the HTML picture tag for swapping images | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Using the HTML picture tag for swapping images

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

design UI/UX CSS/HTML
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Material Design Resizer | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Material Design Resizer

Get your website clients to easily test their website responsiveness

design UI/UX
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New Frogponds website now live | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
New Frogponds website now live

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

design UI/UX CSS/HTML News
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PlayGrasshopper project | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
PlayGrasshopper project

A new bluetooth beacon based project for the BlueSky team.

programming Apps News beacons
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CSS Text Gradients | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
CSS Text Gradients

How to use CSS only for gradients on your text

CSS/HTML design
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Frogponds online sourcing platform | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Frogponds online sourcing platform

The new and improved Froponds system is now live.

Custom Solutions Systems
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Les and Lana Waugh, Business Key | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Les and Lana Waugh, Business Key

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

Apps Systems Custom Solutions
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Fomantic UI 2.8.6 released | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Fomantic UI 2.8.6 released

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

CSS/HTML programming
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Fomantic 2.8.5 | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Fomantic 2.8.5

Upgrading to Fomantic UI version 2.8.5

programming UI/UX CSS/HTML
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A picture book written in code, on Kickstarter | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
A picture book written in code, on Kickstarter

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

programming
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BlueSky COVID-19 Statement | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky COVID-19 Statement

Important message from our Directors regarding COVID-19

Small Business Awards 2019 | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Small Business Awards 2019

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

Lorem Ipsum "repository" | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Lorem Ipsum "repository"

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

Browser Viewport Assistance | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Browser Viewport Assistance

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

Semantic UI for website | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Semantic UI for website

Building a client website using the Semantic UI framework.

programming Custom Solutions design
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BlueSky is upgrading to React v16.8 | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky is upgrading to React v16.8

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

Apps Systems programming UI/UX
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Custom URL for your business' Google My Business listing | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Custom URL for your business' Google My Business listing

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

Tour of The Crest in Burswood | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Tour of The Crest in Burswood

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.

BlueSky ideas
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Getting around Shinjuku, Tokyo with Augmented Reality in Google Maps | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Getting around Shinjuku, Tokyo with Augmented Reality in Google Maps

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

BlueSky ideas Apps
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New company shirts and Team BlueSky additions | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
New company shirts and Team BlueSky additions

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

Exploring ideas with Mixed Reality | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Exploring ideas with Mixed Reality

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

Custom Solutions Start-up programming BlueSky ideas
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Beacon Technology - Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Beacon Technology - Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk

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.

Custom Solutions Apps beacons
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Mind melting calculations to solve a shape sorting conundrum | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Mind melting calculations to solve a shape sorting conundrum

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.

Custom Solutions Systems programming
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BlueSky proud to be a Subiaco AFC Club Sponsor | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
BlueSky proud to be a Subiaco AFC Club Sponsor

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

Sponsorship Digital Marketing
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Here's how custom development breaks new ground | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Here's how custom development breaks new ground

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.

Systems Start-up Custom Solutions
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Beacons - What why how? | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
Beacons - What why how?

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!

Apps beacons Start-up BlueSky ideas Custom Solutions
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What is the "best" front-end framework to use? | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
What is the "best" front-end framework to use?

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"?

design UI/UX
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To the BlueSky and beyond! | BlueSky Perth Custom Web + App Development
To the BlueSky and beyond!

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

BlueSky ideas Systems Custom Solutions Start-up Data Science Digital Marketing Apps
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