The widespread adoption of conversational interfaces replaces the master-to-slave narrative (e.g. artist using a paintbrush) with one that’s more human-to-human. Bots are crucial to these developments, which are gaining momentum across popular social platforms (Slack, Facebook messenger, kik and many others) as well as in other unexpected places. …

Stepping into the world of developing VR experiences is incredibly exhilarating, and, depending on which front your exploration starts from, very difficult. In the past few weeks, the development and innovation teams at This Place rolled into “new-to-us” territory. Following up on our recent VR post, we continue covering in-depth…

Hiring for new positions in a team often means looking at dozens of résumés and CVs a day. Usually this would be fine. The problem surfaces in smaller companies when hiring simultaneously for several roles while managing multiple sprints, deadlines, and tight client meeting schedules. …

http://digitalshoreditch.thisplace.com — In the Beginning When This Place registered an open house event for Digital Shoreditch 2015, we were excited both to create an entertaining experience for our attendees and to see what the other open house events were like. …

A drop-in solution for mismatched background colors between a web page and its images. — Highlights Approximately 230 SLOC (source lines of code) No dependencies The Why A classic way of improving the readability of a table with lots of rows is to set slightly different background colors for alternating rows. …