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 ...
Jun
04
We, here at the lab, appreciate the value of letting the user hack out their own solutions to problems that they may have stumbled upon that don't fit our vision. There's barely a day goes by that you won't hear ...
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
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…
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 ...
Sep
30
We have been recently working on a top-secret Rails app and performance has been a primary consideration. Although I agree that “scaling is a nice problem to have sometime in the future“, it does not mean we throw good ...
Sep
29
If you are one of those n00bs that are looking to learn Ruby on Rails on a Mac OS X and happen to use the unfortunate combination of Locomotive and a XAMPP-based MySQL server, you will probably be frustrated with ...
