Wow, what a absolute blast. Hack Week 2.0 has now been and gone, we’ve had a weekend to relax and this week we can take the time to look back and reflect on what we achieved. We had just over four days to get our projects polished (Friday afternoon was set aside for demoing our work to the company) so it was a challenge, but one everyone on t... (read more)

Back in January our design and engineering teams took part in our first ever Hack Week and it was a resounding success.

A fair few of the Hack Week projects have made their way into FreeAgent in one form or another and some, like App-wide... (read more)

Hack Week has been and gone and I’ve finally got around to collating feedback from the team. To give you better insight into what everyone worked on, and the outcome of their efforts, each team has written about the projects they took on and what they achieved. (read more)

We’re two days into our first Hack Week and we’re already seeing good progress.

Testing is a common theme being worked on by two teams. The FreeAgent code base is fairly large and is complemented by an even larger automated test suite, containing unit, functional and integration test... (read more)

Starting today we’re going to be trying something a little different in our development team. For the entire week our project schedules are being put on ice while all our engineers and designers (12 of them) are being left to their own devices to hack on whatever they want, so long as it’s FreeAgent-related.

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What we’ve been reading about this week:

• New Relic regularly release statistics about the apps they’re monitoring. The latest State of the Stack makes for interesting reading as ... (read more)

“I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did”

Steve Jobs, 2005

Hello and welcome to the all-new FreeAgent engineering team blog!

A lot of work goes on behind the curtain at FreeAgent and we’ve kept rather quiet about this ever since we launched the first iteration of our app (18^th September 2007, if you were wondering). This isn’t because we’re unwilling to reveal our secret special sauce (still classified, sorry), more because there has always been such an ever-growing mountain of work we really wanted to do, anything else has taken a backseat. (read more)