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Four days before the turkey was served up at Christmas last year, we threw the switch on the biggest project we’ve ever done at globaldev. We launched our new mobile counterpart to our desktop application for nearly 200 of our biggest sites.
We’re proud to unveil our brand new mobile web system for our White Label Dating sites. The result of months of development is now live on 197 of our biggest sites around the world.
The globaldev team is growing: after eight years based in Windsor we’ve decided to open a Global Personals office just by Waterloo station in London. From early 2012 we’ll be looking for a development manager, developers and engineers to work alongside our Windsor team.
We’ve released a new gem for all your postal code formatting and validation needs. GoingPostal will validate and correctly format postal codes from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and can be used as either a model mixin or as a namespaced collection of static methods.
Gavin, one of our UX designers, attended BarCamp London a week ago, and presented some of his productivity tips for working with Adobe Illustrator. Here’s his follow up for those who couldn’t attend his talk, and for anyone other pixel-pushers who are interested in making the most from their time in CS5.
BarCamp London 9 has been and gone, and it was another great event made possible from the sponsorship of globaldev (alright, other sponsors may have helped out too…) This year we had a total of 6 members of the team attend; here’s a little run-down of the day from one of them.
Silicon Milkroundabout was another great success on Sunday 30th October and globaldev came away happy and with hundreds of potential candidates
