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Clock Week in Pictures 08/02/2013
Say goodbye to the WIP, as this is the last one! Don't fear though – it's not as bad as it sounds, we're just changing format slightly. After this week, we'll be aiming for a fortnightly frequency, but the slightly less restrictive moniker of 'Clock in Pictures' will allow us to proceed at whatever…
Clock Week in Pictures 01/02/2013
A pinch and a punch for the first of the month, and welcome to February's first week in pictures! We've been busy putting in the groundwork for some big and exciting projects that will soon be on the production line, but we've still got a few extra-curricular pics to show. The boardroom has seen…
Clock Week in Pictures 25/01/2013
It's been fairly quiet this week. Nonetheless we see some new wheels, some hardware hacking, the end of an era, and some dizzy heights! Paul (our CTO by day, mountain-goat by night) takes a Luke and Francisco for a trip to the climbing wall to show them the ropes… And Francisco…
Clock Week in Pictures 18/01/2013
This week's WIP is (as much of the UK is) primarily concerned with the weather. If you've forgotten what that transparent rectangle on your wall is for, then this week you're in for a treat. To kick things off, five of us Clockers hit the slopes in Les Deux Alpes. Here we are snapped on Adam's…
Clock Week in Pictures 04/01/2013
Hello and welcome to the first WIP of 2013. We hope Santa brought you everything you asked for, and that you didn't spend all of New Year's Day in bed recovering from the Auld Lang Syne antics the night before – yes, I'm sorry to say that you were embarrassingly out of tune. Don't worry though, in…
Clock Week in Pictures 14/12/2012
The Week in Pictures is back for a final, increasingly festive rendition before the Christmas break. This week (or the last few weeks, should I say!) sees Sophie get a face full of water, the musical members of the team get together for a jam, and some Christmas-y preparations for tonight's Winter…
ALL NEW! Two Weeks in Pictures 23/11/12
Fresh off the shelf is this week's TWIP! Due to absence last week we have compiled a bumper selection of the WIP in a special two week edition. Don't be shy, come on in...
Team Building. Meet; the Mycrowave, Ironman, Crapology and the Spidge!
Objective: invent, design and shoot a commercial for a new home appliance
Clock Week in Pictures 09 / 11 / 2012
This week get the full insight of Clock life with our special 'team building' instalment. All of the normal fun with and added bonus! Go Team!
Clock Week in Pictures 25 / 10 / 2012
This week is fat with fun. Clock bring you another instalment of our Week in Pictures. Chow down!
Clock Week in Pictures 19 / 10 / 2012
A kick ass week for Clock in house and in San Francisco at Nodestack Conference!
10 Years of University Interns
For the last 10 years Clock has been hiring university students as Interns to allow them to fulfill their degree. During this time we have employed over 20 students. The intern scheme at Clock is a pipeline for hiring staff and it helps the business grow.
and now... Will the fat lady sing?
As discussed, I am trialling new browsers - to enrich and broaden my horizons. I ended up using Chrome for longer than I intended and with good reason, I found it to be the best browser I had used. Previously I was an adherent Firefox fan. So, how does Opera fare? With more than 220 million users…
The Rise and Rise of Game Mechanics
We all like games. They are fun, social and as it turns out tremendously useful in real life. (See my previous post on that subject here. Read it? Good, then welcome back!) How did it start? So lately, the world of gaming has started to spill out from the realm of hardcore gamers to, well... the…
From Firefox to Chrome
This post is a follow-up to my original blog regarding browsers So, I made the leap from my trusty Firefox to Google Chrome, and it was a lot easier and efficient than the last time I tried it. I used the handy 'Import Bookmarks and Settings' menu option and it pulled my stuff across pretty…
My Browser
About a month ago, my colleague Mike shared a fascinating read, browser speed reports on LifeHacker, and in the article it overtly stated that Opera 11.51 had taken the title as speediest browser. Like a lot of people I suspect, I have pretty much stuck with the same browser for a number of years;…
Our blog incentive scheme
At Clock we have introduced a blog incentive scheme, and I thought I'd share it with you - in case you might want to do something similar, or just in case you are interested. It is a 6 monthly prize allocation system, and the prizes are worked out via the following metric: The most popular blog…
The sad news about Steve Jobs this morning got me thinking...
Incredibly sad news to wake up to about Steve Jobs this morning. In so many ways, he was an inspirational figure. I guess only time will tell if he will be as influential as Einstein in the bigger picture, but he won't be far off I think. The technology revolution will be far more wide-reaching…
Getting To Grips With Social Media Marketing
Starting at Clock Limited a few weeks ago, I began my voyage into the murky realms of Social Media from a professional perspective. Naturally, my first handful of tweets were shaky and this was demonstrated through my initial (and unfounded) ‘nice to meet you’ tweet to what turned out to be an…
The Web Agency Boilerplate
You know what we love in web agencies?...Templates. Boilerplates. Frameworks. Basically stuff that allows us to save time because someone else has done some thinking. I have spent 15 years in 4 agencies across 2 countries, and have noticed one thing in all of these agencies. Basic stuff missing.…
Why has Bing become my default search engine in Firefox 4?
I decided to write this post because ever since I upgraded to the full version of Firefox 4, I have become really frustrated with a key piece of browser behavior I am accustomed to. Not everyone browses the same way, but I love Chrome and the fact that the address bar is also my search bar. For all…
Just because you're listening to the client doesn't mean you're hearing the client.
Communication is key if you want to build strong relationships with your clients, and on top of this - an understanding of the work you are producing is key. George Bernard Shaw once said that: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." I think you could argue that in…
A Few Useful Online Tools
Online tools used to be fairly limited and not that useful for business, traditional offline software used to dominate - but I now find myself using more and more online solutions. A few to mention: #1 Basecamp: It brings the projects (and teams) discussions/assets etc together quite seamlessely…
The Tea Game
In order to make the tea making fair in the workplace, we have concocted a game to distribute the tea/coffee making responsibilities. It goes like this: Objective Not to be the player with the lowest card (ace is high) or to be the player holding a red Queen. The Dealer The dealer can be 1 or more…
Opening Clock
Clock have decided to embrace the open source world and release everything we can for all to use. We will open all our policies, development methodologies, software tools, and any assets we produce internally. As much as possible we are going to put it out there for others to use, comment, and…