So 2012 was a big year for us, not least because of the big move into our new offices. We now live right in the heart of town, tens of meters from the City Hall and conveniently surrounded by many …

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An Initial Adventure with Lucene. This is the first exercise in a tutorial series introducing Lucene, the text search engine library. Source for the exercises in this series is available on Github and the only prerequisite for running the initial …

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So September’s Big Data Bash turned out to be a fantastically informative and entertaining night. Great speakers, great content and genuine laughs along the way. Rather belatedly here are Jason’s, Matt’s and Jim’s slides from that event. Enjoy.

Recently Team Instil, accompanied by Kramer Dog, spent a day away from their desks on their annual summer outing. The plan was simple; drive to Newcastle, fuel up on cappuccino, hike up Donard, high five at the top, skip down, …

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Back in April of this year, Martin Thompson delivered his Lock-Free Algorithms Course to a bunch of developers from across the UK. The feedback was quite simply phenomenal

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Despite all that has been written about simplicity – from the SOLID principles to refactoring to a multitude of quotes on the topic – many of us still struggle to do the right thing

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So here we are. Seven years in and we have finally (FINALLY!) got round to creating our company blog. Hard to believe really when you consider that we spend half our lives offering opinion to other software companies. But that’s …

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