Salesforce, mobile & Front end stories

by Antigoni Tsouri

Salesforce has its own proprietary language called Apex. Apex provides easy to build data views and because the out of the box interface is never enough, it also has it’s own front end proprietary language…

Hackathon? No, not yet. Ideas Splurge!

by Chris Gathercole

In many cases, the answer to “How do you organise a Hackathon?”

appears to be “You don’t. What you need is an Ideas Splurge.”

QuickStart Software Development

by Martin Roddam

What is QuickStart?

Here at the FT we have been trialling a new method (at least for us!) of beginning a software development project. Essentially, the entire team (developers, testers, product owners)…

Alerting for Brains

by Simon Gibbs

Here is the output of our production monitoring. Please read this information and answer the question below:

Ready?

Please name all 3 servers that are currently in a critical state.

FT Technology Internal Conference: Engine Room 2015

by Victoria Morgan-Smith

The FT technology team held their inaugural (and pleasingly successful) internal conference at the start of February. How we came to put the event together, and how it all went so right we…

Using sabotage to improve

by Mark Barnes

Given a long enough time frame everything breaks. How ready is your business for a serious disaster? This is a short account of some of the preparations the technology team at the FT have been making to ensure we can keep delivering world…

A Product Manager’s visit to the Engine Room

by Mattijas Larsson

My notes from the FT Engine Room tech conference, 2nd Feb 2015, from a Product Manager’s perspective.

Earlier this month I was invited as a panelist to the Engine Room conference…