Christmas is here
Friday 12th December 2008Christmas has well and truly landed here at Percy Street, our Christmas tree is up and running and some very lucky sausages are about to receive some beautiful presents packaged carefully by Head’s very own “extraordinary upper Christmas Management team”.
Our inspired elves managed to buy Topshop out of pick’n'mix and clear the shelves of Soho’s natty gift stores for our beautiful hand made stockings to devour. The now famous Head Christmas stockings, designed & produced by the marvelous Kate, are now out on there way to various destinations across the globe, we hope you love them as much as we do.
You can see more merry stocking goodness over at our Christmas Flickr set
Thanks to Unusual Gifts for the great gift ideas!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Head hits Riga!
Friday 12th December 2008Team bonding went into overdrive last weekend at Head, as we all missed our usual Friday tipple for an expedition to the depth’s of Eastern Europa. With our hangover’s at the ready, we hit the hotel spa, got our hot mud bath on and prepared ourselves for a latvic medieval joyride of drink, food, AK 47′s and a little bit of sightseeing.
Many thanks goes out to the the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia for being such beautiful hosts and last but defiantly not least a big congratulations goes out to the marksmen of the weekend, Will who won a little medal of honor for keeping his gun barrel on target all weekend!
Some of the least explicit photos we managed to capture are over at our – Flickr page
Until next time Latvia, Visu labu!
We’ve been shortlisted!
Tuesday 25th November 2008
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!
A day in the life…
Tuesday 25th November 2008
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 at Withers as well as allowing users to find out everything they need to know about the company and apply for a job.
You can check out what we did over at..
- Official Graduate Careers website.
- The Withers Vimeo Channel.
SVN Branching/tagging and Redmine integration
Thursday 6th November 2008Here 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 SVN branches when using Redmine.pm, the Perl authentication module. Any attempt to branch a repo resulted in an Apache segfault and an explosion on the client-side. The relatively simple solution was to replace the apache2-mpm-worker module with the apache2-mpm-prefork module. I found this solution tucked away in the Redmine forums, but I figured I’d better make a note of it as the solution was a bit hard to find.