Head London

Hooray! Head has been shortlisted for an award within E-consultancy’s inaugural Innovation Awards under the category “Innovation in Social Media & Communities”. The second round of judging is now under way and the winners will be announced on 2nd December 2008 to co-inside with Britney Spears Birthday, Fact! Go us!
Check the rest of the shortlisters [...]

Tags: awards, communities, E-consultancy, Innovation, media, shortlist, Social

We’ve just launched Graduate Careers, a new site for our good friends over at Withers Worldwide.

We selected a handful of trainees from Withers, gave them each a video camera and asked them to capture their typical working day. The aim of the game was to give a realistic view of what it’s like to work [...]

Tags: careers, graduate, video, vimeo, website, withers

Here at Head, we use Redmine for our issue-tracking and collaboration needs, and it’s truly great. We’ve now replaced Trac, which was also really good, but we’re finding that the multiple-projects support in Redmine really trumps the single-project-per-installation model of Trac.
The only problem we’ve run into so far with Redmine was a problem setting up [...]

Tags: branching, perl, redmine, redmine.pm, svn, tagging, trac

Just to speed things up for anybody who needs it, here are the commands we use to get Rails sites working on a fresh Debian-based system.
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sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc1.8 ri1.8 irb1.8 irb ruby1.8-dev build-essential

mysql-server libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient15off libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-admin

imagemagick librmagick-ruby libmagick9-dev libopenssl-ruby subversion git-core

Next, go to http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 and download the latest rubygems package [...]

Tags: debian, installation, Ruby on Rails, ubuntu