Red Badger Team

What is Specification by Example?

Setting Business goals, gathering requirements and providing specifications are fundamental activities of product development. However these activities are only partially covered by traditional Agile methodologies, which tell us how to build…

Red Badger Team

Inside red-badger.com

Here at our (currently) sunny workshop in Clerkenwell, myself and the fellow badgers have being busy carefully crafting this, the new red-badger.com website and blog. Internal projects here are run with an ethos of allowing software engineers to…

Red Badger Team

Red Badger's Collaborative, Agile Environment

I am Arnaud the new Agile Project Manager at Red Badger. I have worked for over 10 years in the Internet industry notably as Service Support Manager and Product Manager and I am delighted to have joined the 'Badgers' a couple of entertaining and…

Cain Ullah

BBC Connected Studio – a fun day of innovation

On Friday last week (that is the 4th of May 2012 just in case you are reading this in 2013) we spent an excellent day up in the BBC’s plush new MediaCity, Salford offices with a bunch of BBC folk, other start-ups and generally bright, vibrant…

Red Badger Team

QCon Notes Part 2: The Future Application Platform

Unsurprisingly, there were several talks about the web and JavaScript at QCon. There is no doubt about the meteoric rise of JavaScript in the recent years, and it's hard to imagine that this will not continue. Web browsers have been powered by…

Red Badger Team

QCon Notes Part 1: The Rise of Erlang

Last week most of my time was spent at QCon London. QCon is an annual international software development conference in London that covers a broad range of topics within the software development world. After looking through the schedule for this…

David Wynne

Devising a Training Budget

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…

Sari Griffiths

UX for every one - UX developers are here.

I always had a problem with the term 'User Experience (UX)' being used to describe a particular discipline - not that I don't agree with the fact that's what they are predominantly concerned with. I just don't like that it seems to imply that other…

Cain Ullah

2011 – A Redrospective

As we now roll full steam ahead into 2012 I thought I’d take the time to do a blog on Red Badger’s year in 2011.

Red Badger Team

HTML5 prototyping with Node and Knockout

Over the past couple of months, a small team at Red Badger has been working on a number of HTML5 prototypes for an interesting client. Speed of development and easy iteration have been essential so we've taken the opportunity to try out a new…