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Huddle Running Team Race Report
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by Colin.
Last week, no fewer than 16 intrepid Huddlers took part in the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge, a 5.6km running race through leafy Battersea Park. The runners and the vociferous cheering crew alike were pleased to see the morning’s torrential downpour subside to leave London bathed in glorious sunshine in time for a gentle warm up [...]
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The marafun site visit: Why we are running
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by Colin.
Along with fellow Marafun team members Bulat and Harry, I had the pleasure of spending Monday afternoon in the company of Pat Ryan, CEO of IT4CH, the charity we’ll be supporting when we hit the streets on 17 April. IT4CH is a fantastic charity and its aim is to provide all children and young people [...]
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Huddle’s best World Cup teams of all time
Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by Colin.
As you’re probably aware (and perhaps already weary of), the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa on Friday. Here at Huddle, we’re big believers in the fact that people work better together and great team collaboration can generate great results. So, to get into the swing of things we’ve launched the Official [...]
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Build Conventions With Ruby
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Colin.
One thing that really tired me in the past with build scripts was repetition. I may have several apps each with their own build script and for each one I would have to specify to compile it, tokenise any configs for other environments, run the unit test projects and code coverage, generate the same directories [...]
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Learning Lean From Films
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by Colin.
I’m still in the learning phase of Lean and Kanban. I guess I know a lot more in theory than in practice as my experience is limited. However, I have started notice Lean applied in places that I didn’t before, which personally, I find encouraging (and sort of exciting, is that a bit geeky?). I [...]
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Building .Net apps with Ruby
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Colin.
I haven’t blogged for a while about our build environment as I’ve been busy, firstly playing around with and integrating TeamCity as part of Continuous Integration (I won’t go into detail about TeamCity apart from say that it’s excellent, and we’ll be migrating across all of our build projects from CruiseControl.Net to TeamCity). And secondly, [...]
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Scrum, lean and everything inbetween
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Colin.
My recent post about Agile raised a few question and comments. Two people suggested Lean as something for us to look at, and there were a few suggestions and thoughts around my ideas. So I thought I’d go over Lean, how we currently work, and also clarify the points in my last post in a [...]
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Developer thoughts on Agile process, cost and value
Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Colin.
I’ve recently been questioning a lot of things about Agile development and how we do it. But beyond more than just a development perspective as it affects the entire business. Are we doing it as best we can? Why can we never achieve the perfect agile set up? I’m not talking about dropping Agile in [...]
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Making a greener developer
Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by Colin.
I often wonder, if I eventually have my own start up, what would it be like? Well amidst all the beans bags, laptops, bikes, and working in the sun, one of my big things is being efficient. Not only in a work sense but in a energy/green sense too. It’s always amazed me at previous [...]
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Don’t Go Breaking My Build
Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Colin.
In development it’s quite often that someone will commit something bad to source control, and as a consequence everyone else will “pull” the bad changes and have the infected code on their machines too. Before you know it, the bad code has spread to most developer pc’s and development grinds to a halt. It’s a [...]
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Speeding up the build
Posted on 20. May, 2009 by Colin.
As a developer I hate having to wait around for my pc to finish doing something. Whether it be something opening (Visual Studio), getting the latest svn updates (and it locking up my browser!?), and especially waiting for my code to build (locally, or via CruiseControl). Obviously, the simplest solution is to throw more money [...]
