- All
- Badger Life
- Delivery
- Insight
- Leadership
- News
- Opinion
- Process
- Strategy
- Technology
- UX & Design
- Mission Beyond
Automating your Infrastructure with Vagrant & Chef - From Development to the Cloud
Crafting the perfect development environment is difficult. Reproducing this environment for every member of your team, across development machines, running on different platforms and filled up with dependencies from previous projects is even harder.…
The Proof is in the Pudding
Does a good sales presentation prove you can deliver? We think not. How should clients de-risk project delivery by choosing a service provider based on their proven ability to deliver?
Red Badger has been running as a company for 3 years this May.…
Agile Survival Guide for Designers
Are you a designer about to work in agile teams? Or are you a scrum master and don’t know how to handle your ever so grumpy creatives?
Red Badger works with agile methodology and I really like the way we work here. Surprised to hear a designer…
Effortless Continuous Integration and Deployment with Node.js, Travis CI & Capistrano
At Red Badger there has been a significant transition to open source technologies which are better suited to rapid prototyping and highly scalable solutions. The largest area of growth for us as a company is in Node.js development, there are a…
Thread-based or Event-based?
Q: What do our 3 favourite open source projects (Node, Redis and Nginx) have in common? Apart from being uber-cool?
Tech Round Table 2012
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…
Back in the sett
Hello, I'm Stephen. I'm a front-end web developer, focusing these days mainly on Javascript and Node but with a wide range of experience in most of the technologies that make stuff look good in a web browser.
Firestarter Events
Before last year closed out and we headed off for festivities and copious amounts of booze I mentioned a new idea to introduce Red Badger employees the opportunity to use their training budget (£2,000 each year) to invest in our own ideas. I am…
From Exchange to Google Apps for Business
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?
BBC Connected Studio Pilot the story so far
We are now well into the second phase of BBC Connected Studio's pilot project 'BBC Now!', developing away. (If you haven't heard about Connected Studio, check out this blog post "Connected Studio: the first pilots" by Adrian Woolard.) The first…
Rapid Prototyping Incubator - Training Shaken Up
Thoughts
So as the year is closing out and we head towards 2013 I started to think about what I might be able to do in regards to the £2,000 training budget that we get here at Red Badger.
Announcing our new non-executive directors
As Red Badger grows steadily and moves into its next stage of development we are facing fresh new challenges every week. To assist our development we are delighted to announce two new non-executive directors who will provide us with the support and…
How to build and launch a rocket in one night
We recently launched a competition 'Windows Azure Media Challenge' with Fluxx. The prize is to win an event called RapidStart. In the 11th hour* before the competition was introduced, I was asked to make a flyer to support it.