Handling uploads with App Engine and webapp2
I’ve been developing a prototype with Google App Engine, webapp2 and Python for a few weeks now, and I’m really enjoying it. That said, some things have taken a bit more digging to work out. This blog...
View ArticleConnecting to Google’s Natural Language API with Python on App Engine.
Connecting to Google’s Natural Language API with Python on App Engine. Introduction As part of our recent White October Hack Day, I did something very basic using Google’s Natural Language API to...
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Hamilton are delighted to be BETT Award finalists.
Hamilton, working with White October, are shortlisted finalists in the Early Years Digital Content category for their work on the Celebrations Cross-Curricular Topic. In Celebrations, Hamilton’s NEW...
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Double gold for White October team
You’re quite right, yes, we’re really proud to be design winners – a double gold in fact – with Oxford Analytica’s Daily Brief and the Let’s Talk FGM app with Oxford Health. Congratulations to the...
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Hackday 2017 – think like a startup!
What we did We’ve done various hackdays in the past, and have really valued experimenting with new technology and getting to know our colleagues better. However, we’d also found that our previous...
View Article“Tests as contract” – using automated tests to help teams work together
We recently worked with UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector trade union, to create a better online joining experience for their new members. The Online Join journey represents a key revenue stream...
View ArticleWhy you need #never in your roadmaps
This article is building on a particular way of starting a product roadmap, that is particularly effective for new product teams. The concept of a simple #now, #next, #later approach to roadmapping was...
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Lead Dev 2018: The top four talks to take home to your teams.
Last week, set against the glorious, brutalist backdrop of the Barbican conference Centre, the 7th Lead Developer Conference took place. Welcoming over 1000 tech industry folk for two days of...
View ArticleHow to pull a remote MySQL database and remove personally identifiable data
In this post I am going to detail how to sync a remote database to a local developer’s machine without storing any sensitive or personally identifiable data at rest. Over the last few years there has...
View ArticleSemantic Versioning when you change the required programming language version
The question Here at White October, we maintain a number of Open Source projects. We’ve recently been discussing changing the minimum PHP version supported by some of them. The question naturally...
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