I’m Mark Henderson and I have been a Developer at Code String for two and a half years. When I was a child I had a fascination with complicated machines and wanted to be an engineer. Unfortunately, it turned out that I have almost no manual skills at all – wood splits and metal warps as…
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I’m Kiran Chettra and I am a Web Developer Apprentice at Code String. I am new to the team, having started here on 4th July 2016. The first things I do every day are log onto my computer, check my emails (if I have any) and then maybe go and make a cup of tea, if I…
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I’m Rob Hamilton and I have been working at Code String for two years and nine months. I’m a Web Developer. Tea is a big thing at Code String, and the first thing I do every day is make myself a cup to drink while reading yesterday’s notes and prepping for my day ahead. I am currently working on…
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I’m Samuel Malloy and I have been working at Code String for two years. I started as an apprentice but am now a Junior Developer. The first thing I do each day when I get to work is check my emails and plan the day’s tasks. The tasks I undertake are quite varied, and this morning…
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I’m Richard van Aken, and I have been working at Code String for four and a half years. Well, I actually set up the business with Steve four and a half years ago, but I like to go by the title of Lead Developer and stick to the developing side of things. Life…
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I can’t remember the moment when I decided to become a coder. It was certainly long before the first Dotcom bubble was blown, before email and the web changed everything, years before the film “Hackers” made it seem cool to code! My first experience of coding was copying 100s of lines of code from books…
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We made the decision to apply for ISO 27001: Information Security Management accreditation earlier this year (audit scheduled for later this month!) because we wanted to be sure that the systems and processes we were using are up to the job. The volume of data that we receive through client campaigns has grown just as…
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With all the digital business functions that are relied on by businesses today, it can be more than easy to find yourself distracted and possibly wasting time. Here are some ways you can try to beat the time-wasting Email Checking your email every 5 minutes is a familiar feeling for most business owners. It can…
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I know what you’re thinking, “What does source code have to do with sea life?”. The answer is an “Octopus”, more correctly Octopus Deployment server. Octopus is the name of the release management automation tool that we have selected to power our continuous integration process. Why does this matter? Well for some time now we…
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Christmas! Every year it feels as though Christmas talk starts earlier and earlier; Jan walked in to our office this morning and declared that there were only 15 weekends until Christmas! If you were happily oblivious to this fact, then I am sorry for alerting you to it, however Jan does have a very good…
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