All tagged Technology

Technology Matt Paul

We love peer to peer web

Last Wednesday, we hosted the first meetup under our new tech community brand welovetech.london. The idea is to host regular meetups, each with a different theme. The theme might be a particular framework or language or it could be something broader like “music and tech”.

Roman Schejbal

Skilling Up With Alexa

For the last couple of weeks, Graham, Marcel, Sinem and I have been experimenting with Amazon’s Alexa Echo Dot. An Electric Hockey Puck that uses voice recognition powered by Amazon Alexa voice assistant. In this blog I’d like to explain how one goes about creating their first Alexa skill.

UX & Design Sinem Erdemli

Designing a talkative hockey puck

VUI is new territory for both developers and designers. Developers are ramping up their skills to make machines take inputs and make sense of them better, while designers work on making the interaction less mechanic

Technology Anna Doubkova

Serverless – evil queen or tooth fairy?

I went to the Serverless Conf last week. I met a lot of great people, heard quite a few inspiring talks, and presented a talk myself. People tend to say that serverless is fast and reduces cost of our infrastructure – but is that actually true? Hint: I still think it's awesome.

Technology David Wynne

If you’re not doing Responsive Web Design, you’re doing it wrong

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 population owns a smartphone, and Gartner is predicting that almost half a billion tablet devices will ship in 2013 and 2014 alone.

David Wynne

The Science of Estimating

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?