A weekend in Brussels: The Free Open Source Developers’ European Meeting
Last weekend saw two days of open sourcery at Europe’s premier open source conference. FOSDEM is for developers by developers. There are around 40 tracks, lightning talks, hack rooms and most of the major open source projects have stands, demos and … Continue reading
The Intranet: anti-social network?
I pitched a session for the first day of the UKGovCamp unconference which was broadly about ‘Social’ Intranets. The byline was “Intranets as if people mattered: people-centric rather than document (or other content) centric collaboration.” We had such a good … Continue reading
Making the unknown, known
I tested my patience and waited for an eternity for my Apple TV to download the film Unknown . I really enjoyed it, and so it was worth the wait. Whilst waiting for it to download, and thinking enviously of … Continue reading
Extending TinyMCE – Part 1
As I’m sure almost anyone who has been involved in web based applications will know TinyMCE is a rich text editor which can be embedded in a web page to allow a user to produce HTML. Having used TinyMCE extensively in many project, but only ever using the out of the box plugins which it ships with, I decided to get my hands dirty and see what’s involved in creating my own plugin. Continue reading
Making time for the Makers at Surevine
Alan Sugar, in a recent episode of The Apprentice on BBC, said that in his experience, no Engineer had ever built a successful business. His outburst provoked an amused reaction from those who recognize the contribution Engineers have made and … Continue reading
The benefits of working for Surevine
Our aim is to provide our people with the best benefits possible. Our team works incredibly hard, and we do our best to reward that effort with some great benefits. We hope to keep adding to the benefits available to … Continue reading
Decentralized Social Platforms
A response to Richard’s post: One thing I still haven’t “got” is how the distributed model of buddycloud, diaspora, etc, actually works, i.e. what is the user experience like. I suspect that’s also the challenge they face, getting the public … Continue reading
Silence is golden
Here at Surevine we have evolved what we call a ‘heads up, not heads down’ culture. That seems both logical and necessary for us because: We work in a radically de-centralized fashion. Most Surevine people spend most of their time … Continue reading
Tea and the Zen of Social Media
As part of Social Media Week, I went along to an interactive talk about social media and how we work within the “noise” it generates. I thought this might be interesting to hear about in light of our new bi-weekly … Continue reading
Elevator Pitches
This month I went to a workshop on “Elevator Pitches” by Melissa Kidd. An Elevator Pitch is a very short pitch (maximum 2 minutes long) of the kind you could deliver if you met a useful business contact in some … Continue reading
