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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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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