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OpenRasta Code Camp

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Jimmy Tight Pants.

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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Huddle Cupid unleashed

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Zuzanna.

Secret crush or someone special you’ll share Valentine’s Day with? Too shy to say it with flowers or worried that you’ll forget? Fear not, Huddle Cupid is at hand!
We’re pretty sure that nothing says ‘I love you’ better than Huddle’s Large Team package for your loved one. However, we recognise that this is probably not [...]

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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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Introducing Web 2.0 to the public sector

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Zuzanna.

With cloud and social computing touted as the top strategic technologies in 2010 by Gartner, Web 2.0 know-how has become a vital requirement for most private and public sector organisations.
So if you’re working in the public sector or working with the government organisations, this might be something for you – our first ever webinar about [...]

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New features arrive

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by Zuzanna.

We’ve updated the upcoming calendar tools both on your Dashboard and within each workspace to allow users to scroll through events in the weeks and months ahead or in the past. This allows you to view a full calendar of all meetings and tasks across all your workspaces on the Dashboard page, and access a [...]

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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 [...]

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Huddle Table Football League

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Nopadon.

Last night we kicked off our inaugural table football league, by hosting the Moo.com team.   It was a great night of pizza, trash talking, beer, trash talking and foosball.
We had a great time and we want more!  So we’re calling you out!  Come and join our league!  If you’re a start up/new media/tech /internet company [...]

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Naked brainstorms? Only at Huddle.

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

How does the Huddle team end up stark naked in a boardroom? Easily. We’d do anything for charity.

The Huddle photograph is one of 24 tasteful pictures of internet entrepreneurs published in the Nude London Tech calendar. Proceeds from the calendar go to Take Heart India, a youth-run charity focused on IT education [...]

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Huddle – the Internet Product of the Year

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Good news comes in twos, it seems. Huddle has just been named the Internet Product of the Year in the UK IT Industry Awards.
The UK IT Industry Awards are a new venture between the British Computer Society (BCS) and Computing, merging the BCS IT Industry Awards and the Computing Awards. Its goal is to create [...]

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Huddle is, again, the one to watch

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Exciting news, just in! Huddle has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark One Program. This unique invitation-only program, launched this week, is designed to accelerate the growth of high potential start-ups.
According to Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft, the idea behind BizSpark One is to cast a [...]

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