Labs. Sharing best practice

Yesterday marked exactly one month since I joined the team at Deeson. Here’s my perspective on what it’s like to be a new starter here.

My wife and I love to travel, so when we heard last year that Deeson were introducing mandatory 5 week paid sabbaticals every 5 years, we started making plans straight away!

With half our development team now distributed, located in various places around Europe, we value the opportunity to come together in person. Our quarterly meetups are a perfect excuse, and our first one took place at our Canterbury office last week.

Digital designers are often afraid to produce something that isn't visually perfect, and you can see the results everywhere. Everything is beginning to look the same, because we're all drawing from the same inspiration and using the same tools and processes – engineered to inhibit mistakes.

Last week Deeson paid for me to attend Agile on the Beach, a 2 day conference in Cornwall covering the themes of software delivery, business, products and teams. Here's what I took away from the event.

A few of our personal highlights The Lead Developer conference in London – a 2-day event aimed at people leading tech teams.

I looked at the Pathauto pattern form and saw something familiar: Condition plugins. I figured if Pathauto was using those, we should be able to add even more conditions to a pattern, provided Pathauto would correctly invoke all of them instead of a hard-coded few. Turns out it does!

Holly Davis shares her top 5 reads and tweets on the topic of delivery from the last fortnight.