Huddle.net's Collaboration Blog

The Inaugural DevTank!

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by James.

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 James.

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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GoodHack – Write an application which makes the world a better place

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by James.

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 station.

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Making yourself more productive using Launchy

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by James.

I am a big believer in the power of the keyboard. The time it takes for me to move my hand from the keyboard to mouse is wasted time. If you take the effort to learn the keyboard shortcut’s you all of your applications, you will find you productivity will dramatically increase. While you can [...]

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Last.fm + coding + free beer = win!

Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by James.

Hi there, this is my first blog so quick introduction, I’m James (One on the left), a dev at Huddle.net, I work on pretty much the whole development stack, right from CSS down to TSQL. Anyway back to the main topic of this blog, my glorious win at last.fm’s hack day last weekend! If you’re [...]

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