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Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 10th October 2016
October 13, 2016
Digital Customer Programme Discovery Phase: Show & Tell #1 with New...
October 11, 2016
I spent Wednesday morning visiting the Digital Team at Newham Council, to attend the first Show & Tell of their 10-week Digital Customer Programme Discovery Phase.
Over the last week, a small Unboxed team have been working alongside the Dig...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 3rd October 2016
October 7, 2016
Faster than Lightning: September's Developer Event
September 30, 2016
This month we hosted our regular ‘Faster than Lightning’ developer talks, where Unboxed developers get together to discuss code that we’ve been working with, and share stories about these with each other. The idea is to get together an...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 26th September 2016
September 30, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 19th September 2016
September 23, 2016
Andrew White’s Technical Breakfast Club: Scaling up Rails in a nati...
September 22, 2016
This was the next installment of Andrew White’s Technical Breakfast Club – the breakfast club for Rails developers and architects, hosted by Rails Core Team Member and our CTO, Andrew White.
The topic of this installment was ‘Scaling up Rails i...
Event: Agile Pilot - How to deliver "stuck" digital products and en...
September 19, 2016
Complex portfolios of digital products can stall in development. It’s a fact of life. The vision gets clouded, deployment slows down, your team becomes demotivated and progress halts. You’ve stopped delivering. Or even worse, you can’t quite seem ...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 12th September 2016
September 16, 2016
Re-addressing the challenges to children’s allergy healthcare with ...
September 14, 2016
I spent Monday afternoon visiting the Health Foundry healthcare startup space to expand my horizons on what steps are being taken within service transformation in the NHS.
The Health Foundry is a brand new collaborative workspace for people usi...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 5th September 2016
September 9, 2016
Development Re-bundling in Dockerland
September 5, 2016
Development Re-bundling in Dockerland
When starting out development on a Dockerized application, adjusting Dockerfiles and rebuilding images is a common task. Bringing together two separate services, as well as applying some gem security patche...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 30th August 2016
September 2, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 22nd August 2016
August 26, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 14th August 2016
August 19, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 8th August 2016
August 12, 2016
Faster than Lightning: July’s Developer Event
August 12, 2016
We regularly host “Faster than Lightning” code talks where our developers get together and submit a snippet of code that they found interesting - Ruby, CSS, JS, test code, server config or anything else. It’s an opportunity to learn a little about...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 1st August 2016
August 5, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 25th July 2016
July 29, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 18th July 2016
July 22, 2016
Meetup: UX For Life
July 22, 2016
This Tuesday was the initial first UX For Life meetup, held at Unboxed HQ.
Hosted by Leon Odey-Knight and Alice Richmond, UX For Life is a meetup group consisting of lightning talks which delve even deeper into the user experience of our existenc...
Brighton Ruby Conference 2016
July 22, 2016
Brighton Ruby is unsurprisingly a conference about Ruby based in Brighton, and organised by @AndyCroll. Being quite new to both Ruby and to Rails, a Ruby conference seemed like the perfect place to pickup a few tricks of the trade and see what&rsq...
ShareDigital conference 2016
July 19, 2016
The conference: Share Digital 2016
The date: Wednesday 6th July
The attendees: Graeme, Martyn
With the aim of growing and expanding my knowledge in the digital public services area, I jumped at the opportunity to attend this year’s ShareDigital 2...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 11th July 2016
July 13, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 4th July 2016
July 8, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 27th June 2016
July 1, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 13th June 2016
June 17, 2016
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 6th June 2016
June 10, 2016
Faster than Lightning: May’s monthly developer event
June 9, 2016
Each month, we host a Dev Event which is an opportunity for our developers to get together, share ideas, or just catch up with each other.
May’s developer event
This May we hosted “Faster than Lightning” code talks. For this event, each d...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 30th May 2016
June 3, 2016