Catch episode four of the Adyen Retail Reawakened Podcast on the website.

A new entry, straight in at sixty-two. 

This week we featured as a new entry at number sixty-two in Econsultancy's annual Top 100 Digital Agencies report. It's a big deal for us.

Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the progress made in regards to gender equality and to highlight where progress still needs to be made.

The term “lean” is thrown around a lot in the software world these days. It's the new agile. In reality, most people don't really understand what is meant by lean, or at least what was meant by the those who pioneered the movement.

When I was about 18, my Grandma came into a small amount of money and decided that she would gift some of it to my sister, my brother and I. This money was to be kept in our savings account and used for something meaningful. I chose to use some of…

Last Friday Joe and I attended All Your Base in Oxford "a database conference for web developers".  There were speakers from MIT, Lanyard, Hailo and Box to name but a few.

The world's gone mobile, are you being left behind?

Not that long ago building a successful online presence meant ensuring that your website worked correctly in all the major desktop browsers. Fast forward to today and the PC is dead, 61% of the UK…

We’ve been successfully using Chef, along with Vagrant, for quite a while now and it has pretty much changed my life. If you’re not already using Vagrant you’re doing it wrong. (Probably.)

Red Badger recently switched away from Exchange Server to Google Apps and, after 5ish months, I can honestly say I think it’s one of the best decisions we’ve taken and we are collectively more productive because of it.

Estimating software development is hard, but that's no reason to ignore it. What can we learn from the scientific method and how can we apply it to our projects?

Estimating how long something is going to take is a part of everyday life, and as most…

Last Tuesday we got together as a tech team (developers, testers, agile project managers) and held a Tech Round Table of 2012. The premise was simple - let’s make a list of all the tech we’d used in 2012 and then figure out what we liked best, what…

Since Red Badger started we've used a hosted MS Exchange Server from Rackspace and of course Outlook. The service has always been excellent; the uptime, the support and the speed. Never once have we really had cause for complaint, so why move?

We were very pleased to be invited back by the BBC to attend the second BBC Connected Studio and Alex had attended the first Connected Studio which had focused on Homepage, Search & Navigation. Thanks to their efforts we progressed onto the…

We go to quite a lot of effort at Red Badger to find the right people to employ, people who will invest themselves in our company and what we’re trying to achieve; all very noble. But as with all good relationships, it’s not just about the take but…

The Concept Lab has become an ever popular way of exploring and proofing big ideas and new concepts, but making it work and getting it right is far from easy.

Last Wednesday I was invited by one of our partners, Fluxx, to talk at an evening event…

If you’re a Windows based user of GitHub and using TortoiseGit then it’s highly likely you’ve used PuTTYGen to generate the SSH key you’re using with GitHub and why not – it works fine.  That is until you want to start using TeamCity with GitHub.

Recently I needed to put in place a temporary (and simple) backup solution on a remote server. I just needed to ensure that a single folder on the machine got backed up to an external location on a daily basis.