We have recently delivered a project for Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) to re-design and build their World Risk Review website. We're currently in the final hardening sprint, doing some bug fixing and UAT. We'll be able to talk more about the benefits…
I'm very excited about a project that we are currently working on for The Haller Foundation and want to take this opportunity to talk about the amazing work they do and what we are doing to help.
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…
Red Badger's Cain Ullah discusses how to keep pace with rapid prototyping.
We've been designing a number of sites using responsive web design (RWD) techniques and have developed a design process that works well for us. Following David's in-depth article about RWD, I wanted to introduce a few practical points concerning the…
I should have written this post a while ago because something I love is not getting the traction it deserves and writing this earlier may have helped in some small way to change that.
Red Badger's David Wynne discusses Responsive Web Design in TechRadar
Red Badger recently became Elasticsearch’s first UK partner and after attending one of their training sessions in October, I wanted to share some tips to help you start experimenting with this powerful search technology.
Everyone knows you need data to make decisions. If you’re developing software of any sort, quick access to metrics can enable you to answer important questions like this:
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 first half of 2013 has reinforced Red Badger’s belief in polyglot architectures and solutions built from small, sharp tools.
If there's a common theme from the popular London Node User Group evening meet-ups, from which the Great British Node Conference has evolved as a full day event, it's that the Node.js ecosystem appears to be approximately 50% useful production…
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…
As with everything we do here at Red Badger we try and iterate and improve each of our disciplines during an application's or project’s life cycle. One of the items that we have been exploring is the use of GitHub and what it can bring to the table…
I confess, I haven't been in touch with the latest and greatest of typography for quite a while. So it was great to get reacquainted at Ampersand Conference at Brighton last month. A little late, but I thought I will give a round up of my take aways.
I have recently read a book (Responsive Design Workflow) and a blog (Stop doing upfront design, it’s a waste of time) talking about how designers can work in agile and the benefit of doing so. I agree with pretty much all they suggest and highly…