Agile Case Study: Developing Infocow for Futurelab
This week at Jiva we finished our ninth “sprint” of work on a project for Futurelab and we’re feeling proud and a little sentimental at seeing it released into the wild and taking our hands off the controls, for a while at least. The project known as Greater Expectations is funded by BECTA and is [...]
XMPP, Jabber, BOSH and all that
Until now, we’ve not given much in the way of technical updates from Planet Jiva, but with the impending release of Tutorhub, I thought it would be worth sharing some of our technical trials and tribulations. From the word go, our technical vision required a need for real time ‘conversation’, blending IM style features with [...]
Beanbag Learning and the Creative Commons
We’ve been engaged in a lively debate this morning about our site Beanbag Learning. As the site has grown rapidly over the last year or so to become one of the biggest online tutor directories in the UK, it has attracted its fair share of competitors looking to lure away tutors or use Beanbag Learning [...]