joshcrowder

I run a small agency(currently 6) and we run monthly hack days to build something cool. The last was a dashboard that links to an ibeacon once we enter the room it says hello and says goodbye when we leave. Completely pointless but it was interesting to build and had some great side effects.

We received 6 applications for jobs that weren't advertised (5/6 were very good). But also we got a great amount of feedback from our existing clients interested in using it for their own companies!

Our next project is a drinks robot built into a globe!

As a CEO you need to care for more than the bottom line.

I really like this. I think its an interesting approach to a problem designers have.

I personally teach all of our designers enough jQuery so they can animate their designs. The issue is its a steep learning curve and to be honest the Javascript is normally throw away as once we come to build the interface we normally use a framework like Ember or Backbone.

Nice work Benjamin!

Requesting a refund is different from a charge-back via PayPal. Working with any contractor be it an agency or a freelancer there is always a risk you wont be happy.

The correct way of dealing with it is to find an agreement you can both deal with. Not use shitty Paypal tactics to reverse the charge.

If you go for dinner and don't enjoy the food, you do not pay, leave and then call Amex and tell them your card was stolen.

This is great! Nice implementation too.

I'm seeing no such file or directory on .dropbox_inj.dylib is that normal? https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4

It's fine in London as well. By the looks of it, the downloads are broken.

I rarely comment on the hyperbole of downtimes and how it ruins lives etc etc. However when a hosting company goes down its a big issue as we cant serve our product / sites but we can launch another server and away we go minus the costs. But when Github goes down we can no longer collaborate it feels like a much bigger issue. I really love Github but I'm glad we use Gitlab as then the onus is completely on us.

The average iOS dev in the UK is not $40/hour that works out to be £187 a day! From what we see the going rate is around £300-500

Serious Fox - www.seriousfox.co.uk, London (Remote OK)

Serious Fox is a Design & Development boutique based in Shoreditch, London. We deliver web and mobile applications for clients of all sizes from small startups to large corporations.

We're currently looking for designers and front end developers to work on some amazing projects if you're interested in these types of things you'll love it here :)

About us We're a small team of 6 founded in 2009 we're bootstrapped and proud! We cherry pick our clients and projects so everyone is happy and know one is stretched too thin.

If you're interested in finding out more drop me a line

Josh - josh@seriousfox.co.uk

Hey William,

We're looking for an front end dev at the moment can you drop me a line josh@seriousfox.co.uk

Serious Fox (http://www.seriousfox.co.uk) - Full Time, London, Design & Front End Developer

Serious Fox is a bootstrapped and profitable Design and Development boutique based in the heart of Shoreditch.

We work with clients from all around the world from startups to large Corporates like Barclays, BMW and Cisco. Our focus is on delivering user centric web and mobile applications.

We're a small team of 6 looking to grow to around 10 this year. Everyone in the team (including the account manager) learns to program to some extent. We work predominately with Ruby and Javascript.

We are looking for a Front end developer with a keen eye for design if this sounds like you I'd love to hear from you josh@seriousfox.co.uk :)

I don't agree - Pre mixed drinks are the future. Lots of new bars are brining new ideas to cocktails through pre-mixed drinks. http://whitelyan.com/ Is one of them they only sell pre-mixed drinks because they couldn't be created on the spot.

Mixologists are mainly for show it really doesn't matter if its shaken or stirred.

http://whitelyan.com/assets/menu/white-lyan-drinks-menu-sept...

I don't have any kids but I'm buying one this is awesome - Looking forward to getting one of these to play with.

My thoughts exactly $58 is a decent price, there are a lot of scrooges in here. The argument of "geez i can build this in a day and the materials will cost me less than 10 bucks" are tiresome and stupid. If you value your time at more than $2 an hour its a good price.

It would be good to get a demo of this. I'm unsure of the benefits over Charles at the moment is it just native? I'm happy to pay for software that looks better but I'd like to try it out first.

It seems very dev focused. I tried the demo out and it took me awhile to figure out what I needed to do. The Question should be larger and have more information about what I should do

This is exactly what I was looking for - Thanks for the article looking forward to reading it this weekend

Finally! This is such a good idea. For non technical people that need specific tools this is golden. Great job!

The irony is Bob opens with "you have to wonder if the rest of the post can recover its credibility, or whether it will continue as an unreasoned rant." but then follows with exactly the same tactic "but since 911 has taken on the connotation of violent extremism. I have yet to see any test-driven developers flying airplanes into buildings while repeatedly hollering: "Kent Beck is great!", so I must entirely reject the connotation."

http://arcticfox.com/ - A video and slide deck syncronisation tool. It is a HTML5 based player which separates the video from the presentation. A great tool for conferences and e-learning. Heres an example: http://app.arcticfoxtv.com/d/onbxr

Its still the only tool to my knowledge that doesn't use flash and works on mobile.

Ha - I noticed that as well, wowza!

Are these videos working for you? I cant get them to start

Hi Trevor, its a little plain for me, the project page is good but adding a little colour and a few fonts will make it stand out more

How well does this perform compared to your postgreSQL example?

Also - We are looking for a Ruby / Backbone.js developer drop me an email josh@seriousfox.co.uk :)

We are building a tool that really scratches our own itch. We needed a tool that:

1. Manages projects - Like Jira but simpler

2. Allows us to create documents and share them with clients - Like email but with commets

3. Track time - Like the notepad that lives on my desk

4. Keep everyone on the project informed

Its called http://matterhorn.io and its coming along we've been using it for months. We are a small agency (6 of us) and its designed mainly for teams from 1 - 20 who work directly with clients.

If you're interested drop me a line I'd love to get your thoughts on it. josh[at]seriousfox.co.uk

I was about to moan about it being US only but then I found the $25 pledge to build your own! Much better. Backed!.

Off topic: S3stat is our go to service we've been using it for years and really couldn't survive without it as its how we charge our clients!

I think this is a great idea. My secondary school (UK) actually had a wealth of voccational subjects. From the age of 13 I studied Cisco, Red Hat and then Oracle DB. By 16 I had a CCNA. Oracle Certified DBA and a few vendor certifications like Security+ and Network+

The real issue was Universities acknowledge them as points towards UCAS so practically everyone on the course ended up staying on another year or two and studied other subjects to get the necessary points.

I'm hopeful that one day the system will cater for more subjects but its a long way way at least in the UK.

Every day! I'm currently working on a project management tool called Matterhorn (www.matterhorn.io). The whole team uses it along with most of our clients. The problem we have is not working on it! balancing client work along with actually building a product is tough. Although the feedback we are getting from people actually using it is driving what we work on next.

We've been using https://www.flowdock.com/ recommend it highly

This looks great - Interested to see the pricing - I'd want to use it across all of our clients projects.

I like the idea - Would be good to see integration with Google Apps. I'd be interested in helping out!