… so now what am I thinking? Introduction — tests that makes me happy One of my favourite things about joining digital product consultancy White October six years ago was discovering Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). As a developer, the satisfaction of seeing descriptions of users’ actual behaviour with an application scroll past in green was hard to beat… ... Then I should see a thanks message And…

We recently worked with UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector trade union, to create a better online joining experience for their new members. The Online Join journey represents a key revenue stream for the 1.3 million member organisation. Joining the union is a multi-stage sign-up process which we helped them…

“If you found this program useful, please consider making a donation.” You’ve probably seen those words quite a bit on software that you use. I have too. …

Introduction As part of our recent White October Hack Day, I did something very basic using Google’s Natural Language API to extract a list of nouns from a sentence. The detail of what I used it for isn’t important here. What is important is that — perhaps understandably for a beta…

Learning from idealism and your previous managers Lessons from inexperience? It’s just been announced to the company that I’ve been successful in my application to become a Lead Developer. Is this a good time to write an article on how to be an excellent Lead Dev? On first thought, that might sound like an odd (or indeed arrogant) idea. …