{"id":29,"date":"2005-07-06T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/user\/mrcranky\/29"},"modified":"2005-07-06T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T08:55:08","slug":"outsourcing-and-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/outsourcing-and-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing and Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Monday and Tuesday were spent at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiga.org\/\">TIGA<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiga.org\/news\/Outsourcing%20conference\">conference for outsourcing<\/a>. Very interesting, great chance to meet people in the industry and make Black Company&#8217;s face known around the block. It also opened my eyes to just how the Company can go in the near future to cement its place in the industry and get a good financial basis for pushing along our own plans.<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, I&#8217;ve finished a first draft of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/coding\">Company coding standards<\/a> and made it available as a public wiki. Coding guidelines (as in, good ways to code, but not things which everyone&#8217;s code will be judged on) are still to come, and will be the fruition of many of the thoughtful scribblings done on the train to Dundee last month.<\/p>\n<p>Things happening in the near future: going through some of the showreels and other various bumf collected from the conference (to assess potential outsourcing of art for the Assault demo), sorting out a TIGA application, buying myself a shredder (as I now have quite a pile of confidential documents that I can&#8217;t throw out), and sorting the details of a possible new contract in Dundee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Monday and Tuesday were spent at the TIGA conference for outsourcing. Very interesting, great chance to meet people in the industry and make Black Company&#8217;s face known around the block. It also opened my eyes to just how the Company can go in the near future to cement its place in the industry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}