Philip Martin, Meet the Team

Fri 26 July 2024 - Eli Marston-Mooney, Philip Martin

Philip Martin is one of our newest Codethings, but who is he?

Why your organisation needs to embrace working in the open-source ecosystem

Tue 27 April 2021 - Laurence Urhegyi

Consuming open-source is only the start of the journey for many companies. Whether by design or necessity, organisations find themselves adapting from being simply open-source consumers to being full-fledged producers, contributors and maintainers, eventually working in public, following ‘open by default and ‘upstream first’ principles.

Making the tech industry more inclusive for women

Mon 08 March 2021 - Vanessa Crispin

As we celebrate International Women's Day, I thought I would reflect on the many inspirational women I have come across, in-person in everyday life, in articles or in history. My HR career has allowed me to see just how well women have steered their professional growth and how policies and procedures have evolved to complement changing and progressive environments.

Why Project Managers are essential in an effective software consultancy

Thu 28 January 2021 - Beth White

Codethink is a company which provides software services and consultancy. We work with our clients to help them to deliver their projects effectively and efficiently. We prefer to work with a Project Manager on basis as we feel this usually results in the best possible outcome for our clients and ensures our engineering teams are well-supported.

Xmas Greetings from Codethink

Wed 23 December 2020 - Tomaz Canabrava

We got this open source cartoon as an Xmas gift... hope you like it

How to keep your staff healthy in lockdown

Tue 11 August 2020 - Tim Pockney

Codethink staff have been predominantly based at home now for over three months. In that time the way we all interact with the world has changed considerably.

Trusting software in a pandemic

Tue 26 May 2020 - Paul Albertella

As concerns about the privacy and security implications of contract tracing apps for COVID-19 show, establishing trust in software is still a real challenge. I’ve been following reports about these apps closely, and have been interested to read medical, technical and ethical analysis from around the world. What all of these perspectives underline for me is the critical role of public trust in the success or failure of such applications.

My experiences moving to remote working

Thu 14 May 2020 - Tim Pockney

I’ve now been working at home since early March. My colleagues and I have all adapted to be able to work at home following the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent measures taken by the UK government and other governments around the world. This shift is one that we have all had to come to terms with quickly.

Sharing technical knowledge at Codethink

Wed 21 August 2019 - Tim Pockney

Codethink’s culture stems from the world of open source software. A large part of what it means to be a Codething is taking part in the sharing of knowledge across the company and learning on a daily basis. This practice drives the development of understanding in different areas of …

How to run Standups on IRC/Slack

Wed 20 January 2016 - Danny Abukalam

Standing up

We do standups to keep the team aware of what everyone is doing, and to identify roadblocks. Doing them on IRC means we can

log the minutes
have remote participants
be in more than one standup at once (eg Project Manager)

Standups should be short - approx 10 minutes …

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