Archive for July, 2008
28 July 2008
As a part of my job I find myself being introduced to all sorts of new ideas and the latest of these is using the Scrum methodology for running projects.
Scrum is an agile methodology that aims to empower the developers and also be flexible enough to realise that specifications change over time and creates a [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: miscellaneous
21 July 2008
Now for me and people of my generation when you start talking about Hobo the first thing we think of is a TV show from the late 70s, early 80s that featured a dog that was kind of a working class Lassie, wandering Canada saving the day.
Hobo means something a bit different in the Jiva [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: miscellaneous
15 July 2008
Clay Shirkys Here Comes Everybody is required reading here at Jiva and even if your humble blogger does have some issues with how well it works as a book I do fully subscribe to the concepts and ideas that Professor Shirky writes about.
So I was very interested to come across a couple of videos where [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: education
10 July 2008
So I typed Jiva into the all knowing Google and lo and behold there was a Wikipedia entry so I thought I would have a look.
Apparently Jiva in Hinduism and Jainism is a ‘living being’. Now that makes us ‘Living Being Technology’ which given our focus on the concept of People Search with Beanbag and [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: jiva
9 July 2008
As well as our shiny new website there are a couple of new faces at Jiva this week.
Theo joins us from web hosting company Krystal as a developer and apart from briefly killing the wifi on his second day is settling in and itching to get his hands dirty. He is a graduate of Southampton [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: miscellaneous
9 July 2008
As you can see we have given the Jiva website an extreme makeover and very happy we are with it to! The site continues to run on the wonderful Wordpress but thanks to the stirling efforts of Chris Berridge and Juan Kennaugh it now has a wonderful new design that fits better with [...]
Posted by: matt
Category: jiva