Handbags at dawn!

On my way to a morning meeting I unexpectedly passed Mimi Berry's shop on Cheshire Street, just off Brick Lane. Mimi has a beautiful collection of designer bags and purses, which she also sells online at www.mimiberry.co.uk. (Yes, tictoc designed the site, glad you like it!). It just so happens they have a sale on right now, so I had to pop back later on to say hi, and suss out the bags.

Personally, I'm coveting the Domino - strokey strokey soft in perfect dove grey. What are your favourites girls?

By Jo Kerr
Published: 24 July 2009
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Frabulous fractals

tictoc's Technical Director Tom Beddard will be demonstrating how to create mathematical and generative art on a Mac. The pic above is one of Tom's creations. As an ex-physicist, fractals are one of Tom's specialist subjects. Actually, he has many specialist subjects, and I don't understand what fractals have to do with physics, but that's why I'm going to the talk - it's all about the edukashun, innit.

If you want to find out more, come along on Thursday 14th May 2009 at 6pm to Apple's Buchanan Street store in Glasgow. You'll find directions and details in the calendar of events on the store's webpage. Do come on down and find out about the wonderful world of fractals - I have a feeling that the pictures will not only be pretty, but clever!

By Kate Wooding
Published: 24 April 2009
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tictocers to follow on twitter

The strength of our family is derived from it's fabric of exceptionally talented individuals. Most of which can be found on the micro-blogging service of the moment, twitter.

To save you the trouble of tracking them down yourself I've collated this handy list of tweeting staffers and roughly segmented it into 3 broad groups.

They're there right now sharing and discussing resources and topics related to their particular specialisms.

Development

@paratiger
@subblue
@nelstrom
@og2t
@cframe
and @riggbot who'll be joining our ranks next week.

Design

@monkeyville

Business / Digital Marketing

@melmcg
@gambollingsylph
@heartblankies
@feshine
@kate_wooding
@pocopina

And finally, @tictocfamily is our official twitter account. Say hello today and join in the conversation.

By Andy Bright
Published: 9 April 2009
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Should agencies Tweet?

Interesting discussion on Econsultancy (see the comments on this article) about whether agencies should Tweet as an organisation (i.e. from a corporate account) or just rely on their staffers. Interesting because the tictocfamily Twitter account started to be used regularly this week, just before the discussion on Econsultancy broke out.

I'd imagine that although lots of our staff are on Twitter, and do tweet about stuff that happens here, they probably have different followers to the company Twitter account. Maybe when it's had time to get a sizable number of followers we'll do a comparison.

Do you think anybody is ever going to be interested in our company Twittering??

By Kate Wooding
Published: 25 March 2009
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Best Twessed

One of our very own tictocers, Drew, was voted Best Dressed Man at the Edinburgh Twestival yesterday! The dress code was tartan, tweed and feathers and he accessorised his outfit with a parrot. Which just goes to show that it's not only the designers who cut a dash! Sartorially-speaking.

By Kate Wooding
Published: 13 February 2009
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Hot off the press

Our very own Tom Beddard wrote a letter to NMA ages ago (in response to an article back in July about Ruby and Rails) - so long ago in fact that we'd given up hope of seeing it in print. And yet, yesterday, there it was in all its full colour glory. We thought we'd share our pride (and his opinions) with you.

I'd like to echo David Heinemeier Hansson's words that Ruby on Rails is great for developing more than just community sites (NMA 10.07.08). At tictoc we've used it to develop more than 200 websites, including ecommerce, and it has won us over. We now use it exclusively and are convinced it has advantages over .Net and Java. We've never experienced problems with scaling and the open-source background has been a benefit, not a problem. We find that Ruby (and Rails) allows us to be the organisation we want to be - a real mix of creative and technical - and to produce sites that don't compromise on design or functionality.

As the biggest Rails agency in Scotland, we're keen to foster the community. So if any fellow Rails enthusiasts want to drop in for a chat, please do, or find us at the next ScotRUG meet. We want Rails to take off and would urge more clients to consider it, and more developers to experience the flexibility it offers. For now, it's a chance for specialists to get ahead of the big boys.                            Author: Tom Beddard, technical director, tictoc Family  Published: 11.09.08

By Kate Wooding
Published: 12 September 2008
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The patter of tiny wellies

It's been such a horrible Summer (I use that word in the loosest sense) that one of the best investments has to be a good pair of wellies so couldn't resist sharing this fascinating pic with the world.

These are our very own, Kerry's dog walking wellies that are not much bigger than a bic pen! Just remember, good things come in small packages isn't that right Kerry!

By Melanie Russell
Published: 9 September 2008
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Aaah the old ones are the best!

I was reading a wee article recently and it made me smile so I thought I'd share it with you all!

A man walks into a butchers and says "is that yer Ayshire Bacon?" to which the butcher replies," Naw, it's ma hands a'm warmin'!!!!

For those who don't get it, pop up a reply and I'll explain!!

Here's another one my Mum rattled off over dinner:

Did you hear the one about the Sea Scouts?   .....their tent sank!!!

Sorry, I know these are childish but those of you who know me will know that's me!!!

By Melanie Russell
Published: 3 September 2008
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Olden days

Colin's parents found a picture of Newton Terrace in the good ole days. It was in a book, possibly an old book - sorry I can't be more specific. Anyway, it shows the other end of Newton Terrace (home of tictoc's Glasgow office) which used to belong to Henry Samuel & Sons, furriers. Cue much excitement about Newton Terrace being the birthplace of the high street chain of jewellers (furs and diamonds are both luxury goods after all), but a little research on Wikipedia showed us this was unlikely. Ho hum.

By Kate Wooding
Published: 9 May 2008
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