The Shed is a Maker Space for Hybrid Software Helix, where we can try out new technologies, frameworks and hardware. Along the way we’ll learn, make discoveries and most important of all, have a lot of fun! Feel free to browse our blog posts and see what we’ve been up to!
Some of the most useful ideas at work do not begin as official projects. They start as small experiments: a frustration, a gap, or a question of “wouldn’t it be useful if…?” That is exactly Read more
The Idea As one of the new graduates in the company, we (Alex, Ethan, and myself (Max)) worked on an orientation project as a team. This was a tool to load pdfs and use machine Read more
Mako’s Doxygen Documentation The Mako SDK has quite a large surface area, all diligently commented by our engineers to produce Doxygen documentation. Having all this high-quality documentation at our customers’ fingertips is one of the Read more
Background The Covid – 19 lockdown made me think of new ways to entertain and engage my boys aged 6 and 8. With a room full of plants, there’s a question that popped up in Read more
Washing hands has never been more important, we all need to do it right. The proper process involves rubbing soap and water over every surface of your hands, and taking a full 20 seconds to Read more
The Goal – Quality Software The teams at Global Graphics Software spend a long time and a lot of effort making sure our code is as ‘bullet proof’ as possible. Developers write unit tests to Read more