Category Archives: Culture

Tie Tuesday – more fun that it sounds

By Dave Copeland in Best Practice, Culture | January 19, 2010
The developers have an informal “Tie Tuesday” each work. It’s exactly what it sounds like. And, since you asked, yes, it is more fun to wear a tie when you don’t have to. Not everyone does it every week, but this week, we had the best participation yet:

A year-long analysis of snack consumption

By Dave Copeland in Culture | August 26, 2009
Consistently, month after month, the chips that get left in the giant 'box-o-free-snacks' are: Nacho Cheese Doritos. Honorable Mentions: Fritos and Cool Ranch Doritos. …

The Cheated Frogs of Vim

By Tom Vaughan in Culture, Development | August 20, 2009
We're still too small of a company to have more than 1 or 2 logical groupings of the development team, and before today they've been basically "the web team" and "everyone else."  Of course, there's a lot of cross-pollination and everything nowadays ultimately manifests itself somehow as "'web". Still, the "everyone else" paint brush was wearing thin.  In addition to the "web team", we had "the scale team" (a.k.a "Ops R&D") and "the AMI team" and "the core team" and "the report team". . .but most of those were "teams" averaged size 1 and their membership varied from iteration-to-iteration.