What’s always impressed me about improv comedians is their seemingly impossible ability to take a suggestion and not only run with it, but skip around with it in imaginative and unexpected ways. They’re able to create a world that, until that…
Mind the Product is a global community of product managers and enthusiasts. Its purpose is “to further the craft of product management by bringing together product people of all stripes”. They do this through their local ProductTank…
After recently attending Kanban Management Professional I and II training, I got some useful new language to help me explain some of the underlying instincts that I have around typical project stumbling blocks. I want to share a few of the “a-ha”…
Red Badger’s social value taskforce started a dialogue with Anthony Nolan, the biggest blood cancer charity. They help save the lives of people with blood cancer and blood disorders with the help of matching stem cell donors & supporters. James…
Last month I spent a week in a summer school in a castle in Bertinoro, Italy, learning about programming language implementation.
Everybody was very focused during this 2 day seminar. Veerryy Fooccussedd… And I'm sorry to disappoint, but they were not teaching us to program JavaScript, Closure or Elixir. This was about a different sort of programming altogether.
We have a £2,000 annual training budget at Red Badger that can be used however we like. Most people use it to travel to attend a conference in the US, Asia-Pacific or somewhere equally exciting. Training is really specific to your job role and…
Once upon a time, six blind men went to find out what an elephant is.The first man touched the legs of the elephant and thought, an elephant is like a big pillar or a tree with strong skin. The second man touched the tail and came to the conclusion…
Last week I had the great opportunity to join a group of React-enthusiasts at a course ran by Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence.
This week Joe introduced us to the concept of Agile Retrospectives. This is an opportunity to look back at the project so far and review how everything is going. What do we want to start doing? Continue doing more of? Stop doing?…
Badger Academy endeavours have slowed down slightly, managing my last year of university and working part-time is a becoming a sizeable challenge. Much more so to come once I arrive in the real world!
It's week 7 at Badger Academy, and it feels like things are really starting to come together. As the codebase begins to take shape, and more of the blanks are being filled in, I'm finding it easier to contribute as there are now more examples for me…
It’s week 4 of Badger Academy, but for me personally as the 3rd intern to join, it’s the first week. Not only am I a few weeks behind on the Badger Time project, but fresh from the 3 month Web Development Immersive course at General Assembly, I’m…
The third week of Badger Academy has passed, and with it ends the first cycle of seniors helping interns. For this thursday we were paired with Joe Stanton. We ran into a lot of problems during the week, which left us somewhat frustrated but also…
This week in Badger Academy, we were joined by Alexander Savin, a senior engineer of many talents. Under his guidance, he assessed the current state of our DevOps including the decision to use docker. Finalising last week's architecture choices, we…
Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Red Badger's intern training program - Badger Academy. As interns, Eric and I will be the 'prototypes' with a dynamic syllabus covering the fundamentals.
Don’t completely rely on your grades to get you a job after uni. A CS degree will prove you're intelligent and understand the theory, but that will only take you so far during an interview. We have to talk about apps we've built with potential…
Back in January this year I went away for a 10 day retreat. The initial intention was to get away from work completely. No phone. No internet. No work. However, unexpectedly it ended up being incredibly conducive to coming up with a whole plethora…
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…
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.