This month’s meet-up was at Skillsmatter (near Red Badger’s HQ); there was plenty of pizza, beer and React geekery. Oh, there was even a ping-pong table, some people decided to play as they were waiting for the presentations to kick-off.
Scaling a company can be a bumpy ride but there are some key things you must do to ensure you can scale without reducing the quality or value provided to your clients or customers. Alignment is a critical part of your transformation as you scale.
In the build up to React London 2017, we were planning to have questions asked by conference attendees to the speakers and QA panel throughout the day. However, this raised a number of issues.
This World Refugee Day we want to celebrate the wonderful contribution of refugees to Red Badger. As a London-based tech consultancy we feel and know their benefits more than most; from the people in our company who hail from over 24 countries and…
Earlier this year, our Social Value task force donated a number of laptops to Code Your Future, a non-profit organisation set up to help refugees become developers. After speaking at our most recent company meeting, we invited founder Germán Bencci…
After a short break we are back with another monthly meetup and here is a short summary for those who missed it. As always, we had an absolute mountain of pizza - 110 boxes tall this time. By the way, that’s more than the number of tweets (76)…
As part of our effort to promote this event, we’ve put together five steps that anyone involved in web development can take to make the internet a more inclusive environment for all.…
A search of our blog listings will throw up a number of articles, ranging from encouraging inclusive design, to impassioned thought pieces. But how do we…
In a large corporate environment, a client once challenged how I spent my time everyday.
On 2nd and 3rd March the Online Marketing Rockstars took place in Hamburg with over 25000 attendees.In the last couple of years OMR has become one of the top events in the digital marketing sector by attracting industry professionals with top…
This time 3 months ago (give or take) I didn't have much of an understanding of how to code. I’d been working with digital products for two years by then but my background in product/industrial design meant that I had been focussed on creating…
Here at Red Badger we’ve been thinking about how we can deliver more social value as a company. And one of the simplest ways was payroll giving, aka Give As You Earn.
“Thank you for signing up!”Phew. You finally got them. Perhaps you’ve teased your latest paying customer with a free month to their annual subscription, or lured them in with shiny promises that’ll change their life. Whatever the reason, they bought…
Today marks seven years since the inauguration of Red Badger and to celebrate we've pulled some highlights from each year and random facts together.
For years, one of the great strengths of writing code for the browser was the short feedback loop. Write some HTML, Javascript and CSS, hit refresh. See it sparkle. Rinse and repeat. In time, we've lost some of that power; web apps are a lot more…
South by Southwest is not just a single thing. It is a collection of conferences, festivals and events that consume the whole of downtown Austin, Texas. Generally, the tech events we go to are neatly contained in a singular venue, where everyone is…
Defining any kind of “good practices” in tech is always a tricky business. Good practices are subjective, heavily dependent to your ways of working and often your personal preference. The best we can do is try to rely on the experience of others and…
When we started Red Badger, we did it because we believed that there was a better way to help businesses transform digitally than the consultancy options that were available at the time. We set out to create an environment where great people could…
Amazon has written a “Hello World” example for building an Alexa Skill. At first glance, it looks like just what you need to get into Alexa Skills development because it's short and clear. But take a second look and you'll notice it requires an…
Have you seen Star Trek? If you haven’t, you should. One of the pieces of future tech that is quietly on display throughout the show is the ability to talk to the computer. Whether it’s asking the computer where someone is or ordering a cup of earl…