Jun
17
A year or so ago, I met with a then-potential client, who we pitched our software development process to. I went through our usual routine of explaining the various techniques and methods involved, when the client stopped me on 1 ...
May
30
In my last post, I talked about the ethics and principles behind the creation of hedgehog lab. Interestingly, a year after they were formulated, the principles still stand and continue to be applied in our day-to-day operations.
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Apr
29
As strong supporters of open standards and grass-roots community efforts on the web, we at hedgehog lab have always taken pride in helping further the adoption of both.
However, there has ...
Mar
19
If you are a freelancer or small agency designing websites, usability testing the websites you create is a bit of a challenge due to the planning, time and cost involved in setting the tests up. Setting up a good user ...
Mar
17
Seth Godin has an interesting take on resumes for people seeking work.
Over the past 6 months, I have interviewed close to 100 plus jobseekers and I have to agree with the core points ...
Mar
14
Software is overrated! You might think that is a bit rich coming from someone who runs a software company. The problem is that to most people, software is synonymous with the code underlying a system. Sure, writing good code is ...
Mar
06
I was recently trawling through my Google Reader subscriptions and came across a post about workplace experiments, which struck a chord with some of the things we do at hedgehog lab to make it a great place to work ...
Mar
06
In a recent conversation at a stand-up scrum at the lab, the issue of Intellectual Property was brought up.
Intellectual Property or IP, for those who don’t know, is one of those words used by companies that never ...
Mar
06
Mar
03
Since joining The Lab, I have had the pleasure of working with Django a whole lot more. In this time, I’ve noticed a couple of tricks / niceties that make development run a lot smoother, here are a couple…
Feb
02
As a company that wants to build the best environment possible for developers to flourish in, we have always encouraged freedom of choice in the tools and technologies they use. Our team currently uses a mix of Ubuntu (Simon), ...
Jan
31
At hedgehoglab we pride ourselves on the user-centered approach we use in designing our software, with our core product fixx seeing a number of iterations over the past few months, primarily in terms of UI design but more ...
Jan
30
I have always been a strong supporter of grassroots web standards technologies and the semantic web but it has always been through the back of the crowd. When we started hedgehog lab, one of our primary aims was to be ...
Jan
28
“SIMON! Introduce yourself!”
No way!
“Introduce yourself…”
Ok! …I’m Si! …the new guy! …be nice to me cos I’m shy!
Erm, yeah..anyway. “People” have been nudging me to get on the ol’ blogaroonie to say “Hi”, but ...
Jan
25
As a new member of hedgehog lab (and what is fast becoming a custom here), I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and my role here at the lab!
My name is Ashley Green and I ...
Jan
09
In a follow-up to my last 2 posts about the issues I see facing recruiting developers these days, I came across an interesting post by Mike Cannon-Brookes who is the co-founder and CEO of Atlassian.
Atlassian is ...
Dec
14
Last month, I talked about some of the key issues we identified in the way developers write their CV (especially in relation to applying for a job at hedgehog lab). We take our recruitment process very seriously and it ...
Nov
18
It is old news that we at hedgehog lab are on the lookout for great developers to support the growth we are experiencing. It is also old news that recruitment is probably the toughest challenge facing any company.
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Nov
16
Javascript is now part of a list of mainstream technologies on which the latest web applications and Web 2.0 is being built. Yet, it is surprising that a majority of Javascript code and developers seem to be stuck in ...
Nov
10
As a software company without any external investment and focused on organically growing at this moment, hedgehog lab faces the constant dilemma of balancing revenue with driving innovation and the development of our products. Although we like to think ...
Oct
13
A while ago, on recommendation of a friend, I decided to try out Pingdom. It is, in essence, a monitoring tool that is actually well executed. The plethora of features are impressive and their client list is impressive.
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Oct
10
I object to naming a department “human resources”; there is nothing human about them. Maybe “rules, policies and procedures department” is an apt name for the roles and responsibility of those that claim to be in HR. More often than ...
