by Paul Rhodes | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorised
Note to the reader: This is a joint blog between GGA and our client, Labyrinth Solutions Ltd, creators of a new product called SilkThread ™. It charts the creation of this new application from a developer’s AND client’s points of view. SilkThread ™ is a...
by Paul Rhodes | Jun 27, 2014 | Uncategorised
As software developers we’re constantly tasked with taking on large-scale projects and breaking them down into smaller, more manageable development projects. In fact, the single most important facet of ‘Agile’ (the development methodology we use here at GGA) is to...
by Paul Rhodes | May 16, 2014 | Uncategorised
Last year, I wrote a post about using Vim as a PHP IDE. It turned out to be pretty popular, and I’ve been updating it despite the fact that I now write considerably more ruby than PHP. One of the things I love about vim is the level of support for languages and text...
by Paul Rhodes | May 16, 2014 | Uncategorised
This post explains how I use nginx and dnsmasq in my development environment to streamline the process of working with several Rails projects. The nature of my work means that I work on a large number of Ruby on Rails projects, and I often switch between them several...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
In a previous blog we discussed the importance of planning your day (read it here). Following on from that article, it became obvious that we had overlooked passing on a critical lesson to you. At GGA, we’ve spent a lot of time analysing how we actually spend our...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
This is the story of how we developed a product called Hashed. It was originally written and blogged about on Friday 15th November 2013. so here it is unedited… A few weeks ago the GGA team made the group decision to stop all client service work for one whole...
