There’s something built into us that drives us to automate everything. Every manual thing we don’t have to do frees us up to do something more exciting and useful.

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.)

Recently a friend asked "Can you use Require.js with PubSub?", and since I've just done exactly that on a project I thought it was worth writing up a simple example. The Publish-Subscribe (PubSub) pattern is a useful way to pass event triggers and…

I have attended the Thinking Digital conference 2013 in Gateshead for the first time this year, having read a review comparing it to TED. And all in all, I think it lived up to my expectations. One participant I met even told me that he preferred it…

First things first: my name is Michel, I recently moved to London from the maritime city of Bremen, Germany, and I joined Red Badger as a design intern a couple of weeks ago. I study Interaction & Moving Image at the London College of Communication…

Recently we helped our friends (and new "flatmates") at Makeshift to build the first iteration of their website. They wanted something quick, lean and simple to get a presence out there without burning a load of time they could put to better use on…

Hear from David Wynne, technical architect at Red Badger who has been working with the BBC to develop features such as BBC Now

Red Badger moves into their own 2,500sq ft warehouse in the heart of Tech City.

On a recent mobile-focused project we ran into a few challenges over getting what turned out to be a fairly complex layout working smoothly and responsively over a range of target devices. It also highlighted a number of real edge-case quirks in how…

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.

Eleni Sharp, the BBC Homepage Senior Product Manager, talks about the relaunched home page.

How can we attract talented graduate designers? Can we be a serious contender in the design industry?

The traditional (or conventional) wisdom says the best place for graduates to learn their trades is at successful creative agencies or…

When trying to convince, persuade or influence others, rejection is commonplace. How can you bounce back from rejection and use the same techniques to influence the morale of your staff?

In March, I went to see Dan Pink discussing the “The Science…

So as day one closed we were ready to get our heads down into hacking some code and try to produce something we could release. We broke up the responsibilities for UX, creative and technical tasks to the relevant roles. As I mentioned in day one we…

If one should do a word cloud out of the Agile literature one word that would be big and bold is 'pragmatic'. It is the essence of Agility, which is a response to prescriptive methodologies elaborated far from the reality of the field. However…

Over the last few months of last year we have been crafting away and exploring many new exciting frameworks and technologies.  So many to mention...... but our core stack as of late has mostly consisted of node.js.  As people of node.js know the npm…

So it has been a little while since I last talked about the Firestarter event that I proposed and successfully ran on the 31st January, finally I have managed to get around to giving you a cheeky flavour of what it was like along with what did and…

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…