Feed Your Team – How Calories Correlate to Technical Excellence
In theory, an Agile Dev team should be self organising and self motivated to continuously improve their development environment. Keeping up the motivation and learning needs dedication; here at...
View ArticleLondon Continuous Delivery meetup – January 2013
On 17th January the engineering team at here at thetrainline.com hosted a meetup of the London Continuous Delivery group at our offices in central London. About 50 group members were joined by 15 or so...
View ArticleEngineering Day Feb 2013 – WebPerf, Service Versioning, Deployments, Chef,...
We in the engineering team at thetrainline.com hold an ‘open day’ every six months to share what we do with other (less ‘techy’) teams in the company. The most recent Engineering Day, in February 2013,...
View ArticleAccelerated Agile – comparing theory to practice
I recently attended a training session run by Dan North (@tastapod) called Accelerated Agile. This blog post summarises what we learnt: Dan argued that some organisations/teams using Agile practices...
View ArticleBook Review – Patterns for Performance and Operability
A commonly overlooked area of many systems are the non-functional requirements and the design to meet those requirements. Patterns for Performance and Operability by Ford, Gileadi, Purba and Moerman...
View ArticleSave the exact version of a module with npm
npm is definitely a very useful tool, but its default behaviour is more tailored for module development than for applications. What I’d like it to do every time I install a dependency is: save it in my...
View ArticleThe scientific approach to increasing conversion
We wouldn’t dream of running an A/B or Multivariate test without a solid hypothesis in place. These little statements are the tiny hearts that power an idea through to completion. But what is it about...
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