Archive for 'Development'
Huddle Share It! Share files directly from your desktop
Posted on 23. Jun, 2011 by Jonathan.
At Huddle, we value innovation. So, on Tuesdays, Huddle’s development team is given the opportunity to work on any ideas that either benefit the development community, such as contributing to open source projects, or make Huddle even better for our users. With Huddle’s goal to help people work better together in mind, Matthew Fenelon has [...]
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Improving your Huddle, part 2
Posted on 10. Feb, 2011 by Jaan Orvet.
First of all thank you for all the positive feedback we received after January’s release. It is clear that you immediately saw the benefits of the tweaks we made, and you are as eager as we are about the path we have chosen for Huddle. Today, we launch the next phase of improvements. Clean and [...]
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The Inaugural DevTank!
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Zuzanna.
Last Thursday saw the successful launch of the developer spin off of Huddle’s infamous DrinkTank: DevTank! Some of the Huddle devs decided that it was time to host their own event targeted at developers in start-ups and so DevTank was born. The aim was to get developers from all walks of life (i.e. not just java/ruby/.net devs) to share their knowledge with each other and learn about both business and technical issues discussed by invited speakers.
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OpenRasta Code Camp
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Zuzanna.
OpenRasta is about to hit the mainstream with its debut at Mix10 and to celebrate, we’re holding a code camp here in the Huddle offices as part of Seb’s 20 Days of OpenRasta project
We’ll be opening our doors on Thursday 18th February from 6:00pm. Our offices are at 180 Bermondsey Street, SE1
Anyone who wants to come along and find out about .Net’s hidden gem is welcome to share in beer, pizza, and hacking sessions. For our part, we’re going to finally get around to building a proper OAuth WRAP demo atop the framework, but any suggestions for hack projects are warmly welcomed.
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Repping the UK Scene
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Bob.
I’ve just returned to the UK after a week in Silicon Valley at a Microsoft event. The event was called SocialFest 2010, and was a competition designed to show the new capabilities of Sharpeoint 2010. 7 teams from around the world were invited to take part, and to produce a solution atop Sharepoint 2010.
After a week of 14 hour days, more sugar and caffeine than is strictly healthy, one trip to the emergency room, and a metric ton of tobacco, we came out on top and brought home the silverware.
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Build Conventions With Ruby
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Rob.
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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Project Development Using User Stories vs. Using To-Dos
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ryan A.
Project managers are constantly balancing and matching the requirements of the project, as received from the customer, with the specifications and details needed by the development teams as the project moves through its development cycle. Using user stories to develop a product requirements document (PRD) can often be more efficient than a list of to-dos, [...]
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Learning Lean From Films
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by Rob.
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 Rob.
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 Rob.
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 Rob.
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 Rob.
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 Rob.
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 Rob.
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 [...]
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Making a better developer
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Rob.
I’ve been at Huddle for a year now, and since joining I’ve not only dramatically increased my learning curve, but I’ve become a much better all round developer, and so has everyone else in the team. So how does Huddle vary from other jobs I’ve had, and what are we doing differently? Here are a [...]
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We love OpenRasta
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Bob.
I wrote last time about some of the things we want to do in order to make our application open for extension and integration. I get asked quite regularly what technologies we’re using at Huddle, so I thought I might spend some time talking about the stack we’re going to build all this on. We’re [...]
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The Future of Huddle: Bet on Openness; Build Trust
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Bob.
I want to take a break from writing about code and spend a bit of time on blue-sky stuff, our approach to standards, and the technologies we want to adopt. I’ll try to keep the jargon to a minimum. At Huddle we work to a tightly controlled schedule, from a prioritised list of business requirements. [...]
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GoodHack – Write an application which makes the world a better place
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Zuzanna.
So a while back when I was blogging about my win at last.fm I mentioned I was thinking about organising my own hack day. Well I’ve finally got round to organising it! It’s called GoodHack (www.goodhack.org) and it’s going to be held on the 9th May at Moo’s HQ next to Old St tube [...]
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Agile development – bendable, poseable
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Colin.
We’ve banned Andy from playing Hot Chip on the Huddle HQ office stereo, as he is a little bit obsessed. You can have too much of a good thing. Bizarrely, however, one of the tracks from their latest album has got me thinking about our Agile development process. Bendable Poseable. The fact that we value [...]
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Four nines uptime
Posted on 27. Feb, 2009 by Jonathan.
At Huddle we take the availability of our service very seriously. Users of Huddle rely on our site to be able to do their work and collaborate with their team on a daily basis and any outage, however brief, could disrupt their working day. We also have a global user base, which means that there [...]
