We recently had two new businesses move into the offices next door. Looking through the doors highlighted to me how important the first impression of an office is to the energy you bring when you walk in the door.
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Personal Connections
Ephox is 10 years old and to celebrate we flew everyone in from our US and UK offices to where it all began … Brisbane.
The celebrations kicked off with a party on Thursday followed by a weekend away at the Hyatt Coolum for employee’s and their partners.
While the weekend away did provide an opportunity to talk shop, it was the personal conversations that I feel pay the biggest dividend.
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Calling All Graduates
Despite the GFC (global financial crisis) Ephox is continuing to grow. We were recently honored with a FastPrivate 2009 award for increasing revenues by almost 230% in the last year.
This means the R&D team in Brisbane, Australia is expanding. We are currently looking for outstanding Java developers who are graduating soon to join the team.
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Headphones and the Open Plan office
Ever since I first started work as a developer in the early 90’s I’ve listened music when working. Over the years I’ve noticed that in most offices I’ve been in, the majority of developers have headphones on. Today, even in our “Agile” team, when people aren’t pairing they are sitting with headphone on and iPods plugged in.
Clean Code, the devil’s in the detail
One of the driving forces of “Clean Code” is that while it takes a certain amount of time to write code, that same code is read many times. Clean Code is aimed at reducing the reading and hence understanding time of the code.
We recently had a practical session, as part of our continuous learning practice, on TDD. After the first few tests, Doug got into some serious refactoring to make the code clean. As Doug progressed, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the numerous methods, many of which had 1 or 2 lines of code, that he created.
