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TiCL mobile local news service now available for download
LShift has been working with TiCL on the product development for a new app and supporting server-side system for a real-time news service. User generated news and pictures can be viewed by anyone within a certain radius of the reporter. The viewer gets an instant impression of the social networks, businesses, and community groups within their local area. The location-based news service is delivered via iPhone and Android apps.
London Hacker News Meetup 25th January 2012
LShift will be attending (and sponsoring) the next London Hacker News Meetup at 6.30pm on 25th January 2012. The venue will be the Central Foundation Boys School, Cowper Street, near our offices in Shoreditch.
LShift awarded Technology Strategy Board funding for Progressive Publishing System
LShift is proud to announce that a significant grant from the Technology Strategy Board has been awarded for the design and development of the Progressive Publishing System (PPS).
SpringSource / VMWare Acquire Rabbit Technologies
SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. today announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, Ltd.
LShift at QCon 2010
We are pleased to be attending QCon (Conference for the Enterprise Software Development Community) in London from 10 - 12 March.
Silicon Roundabout
Wired have been updating their map of Silicon Roundabout. Find us and our friends and neighbours.
We are still recruiting
LShift is looking for senior developers. If you want to join one of the most skilled and interesting technical teams around, how about submitting a CV and some code samples?
Meet RabbitMQ and LShift at QCon
We are pleased to be attending QCon (Conference for the Enterprise Software Development Community) in London from 11 - 13 March to showcase RabbitMQ for the second time.
RabbitMQ at Google Tech Talk
Matthias Radestock (LShift TD), Tony Garnock-Jones (LShift Senior Developer) and Alexis Richardson (CohesiveFT CEO) spoke at the Google London meeting.
TravelDK Wins 'Best Use of Technology' Award
The Dorling Kindersley TravelDK site won the 'Best Use of Technology' award at the 2008 Travolution awards.
We Want to Recruit You
LShift need to recruit a number of senior developers. If you want to join one of the most skilled and interesting technical teams around, how about submitting a CV and some code samples?
Intel Low Latency Labs Tests RabbitMQ
Intel Low Latency Labs this week announced the results of tests they performed on a messaging system built on the RabbitMQ implementation of AMQP, built by LShift and partners CohesiveFT, on Intel hardware running CohesiveFT's Elastic Servers. This configuration achieved a throughput of 1.3 million messages a second.
Shifty needs a Programme / Business Manager
Shifty (LShift's Guru and Avatar) is looking for an experienced Programme Manager / Business Manager with the nous and ambition to drive a truly innovative company. We've found that a traditional approach to running projects is as much of a hindrance as a help, so we need someone to report directly to the board, capable of defining, implementing and delivering new ways of working in a thoroughly agile environment. Do you fancy the challenge of ensuring that our systems are as smart as our technical offering?
LShift at Agile Business Conference
The fourth Agile Business Conference will be held at the QE2 Conference Centre from 2-3 October 2007. The conference represents a great opportunity to find out more about a range of Agile development approaches. LShift is sponsoring, exhibiting, and attending the event along with other sponsors such as Borland and Fronde. Organisations such as Allied Irish Bank, the BBC and British Telecom will be discussing their experience of Agile adoption and development.
Dorling Kindersley Travel wins 2007 TravelMole Award
Dorling Kindersley Travel site won the top award in the Holiday Extras category at the fourth annual TravelMole web awards - the biggest in the event's history - held in London on May 24 at the Canadian High Commission.
LShift Take DSDM Atern Course
LShift first to take DSDM Atern practitioner course and examination.
Visit LShift at QCon
LShift will be attending QCon (Conference for the Enterprise Software Development Community) in London from 14 - 16 March to showcase their new product, RabbitMQ - a joint venture with CohesiveFT.
LShift and CohesiveFT launch RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging
LShift have developed RabbitMQ, a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), with the support of the pioneering software appliance company CohesiveFT.
LShift and Habitat win Retail Systems Award
On Tuesday evening, Stuart Mottram and Michael Bridgen from LShift attended the Retail Systems Awards ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, along with the Gift Service project team from Habitat. It was a tense evening, however they all managed to resist rumbling their hands on the table as the Habitat Gift Service was announced as the winner of the giftcard / loyalty programme of the year category.
We Want to Recruit You
LShift need to recruit a number of senior developers. If you want to join one of the most skilled and interesting technical teams around, how about submitting a CV and some code samples?
Retail Systems Awards
LShift and Habitat partnership reaches the final judging stages of the Retail Systems Awards 2006.
LShift and BIMA Awards
The Yahoo! House Price Centre has been shortlisted for an BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) award in the B2C category.
LShift and NMA Awards
New Media Age have just released their guide to the Top 100 Interactive Agencies for 2006. LShift ranks as the UK's 8th best technical agency and the 4th most efficient.
Habitat Gift Service Launches
Habitat's Gift Service launches today, September 1st. It's a service with a difference - you can register any type of occasion and invite your friends and family to pledge online or by phone to the gift fund.
Sebastian Egner joins LShift
We are very pleased to announce that Sebastian Egner has just joined our team.
Cryptanalysis of Py
LShift developer Paul Crowley presented a seminar on the cryptanalysis of the stream cipher Py at the Information Security Group of Royal Holloway, University of London.
London Metropolitan University Guest Lecture
Chris Stephenson from LShift is presenting a guest lecture titled 'From Marketing Management to Management of Marketing' at London Metropolitan University on April 27 2006.
State of the Art in Stream Ciphers 2006 Presentations
Paul Crowley presented two cryptanalysis papers at the SASC 2006 conference in Leuven, Belgium last week.
Expro Product information Management
As a result of working with clients such as Habitat and Levi's, LShift is launching Expro, a retail-specific Product Information Management system. Expro helps retailers manage product information centrally and then distribute it across all their sales and marketing channels. Visit the Expro website to find out more about our Product Information Management Solution.
Cipher Breaking Prize
LShift developer wins cipher-breaking prize.
WebTst
LShift senior developer Francis Tang has contributed to the WebTst open source project.
LShift Partners with DataPower
Following our very positive experience using their XS40 XML security gateway on a recent Vodafone project, LShift are looking forward to deploying Datapower technology on other projects.
MetaPlatform Open Source
MetaPlatform has been released under an open-source license.
StoJ Open Source
StoJ has been released under an open-source license.
OpenID Cryptography Review
LShift Developer Paul Crowley has redesigned the security for the OpenID system.
Reflective Higher Order Calculus
LShift TD, Matthias Radestock, co-authored papers with Greg Meredith on a Reflective Higher Order Calculus, presented at various recent conferences.
LShift Blog
We've started a blog on this site to capture some of the discussions and research that go on at LShift each day.
BBM wins PC Plus Award
Barclays Business Manager, software developed by LShift in conjunction with ClearlyBusiness, was awarded the prestigious Editors Choice award by PC Plus magazine in May.
Election Swing Visualiser
LShift senior developer Paul Crowley has created an application that provides an animated visualisation of the swings between the three main political parties for the last three elections.
Stoj
We've been investigating different languages for modelling bio-molecular processes, and ways of visualising those models. Our investigation resulted in a new concurrent programming language, StoJ.
Andy Back From Nepal
LShift MD, Andy Wilson, has returned from his fundraising trek to Nepal.
Orchard Network
LShift have signed a Joint Venture agreement with Orchard Network to build an International market-entry business network.
Open For Business
Barclays launched the Open for Business CD, a multimedia training application aimed at new businesses, authored and programmed by LShift.
Semantics in Life Sciences
LShift CTO Matthias Radestock co-authored the paper Lab to Lab Connectivity and Semantics in the Life Sciences, presented at the W3C Semantic Web for Life Sciences workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts last November.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next meeting of the Scheme UK user's group at LShift offices will will be held on Wednesday, 6 October 2004 from 7pm till we leave for the pub. This meeting will be held in conjuction with UK Lispers.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next meeting of Schematics (the Scheme UK user's group) at the LShift offices will be held on Thursday, 2 September 2004 from 7pm till we leave for the pub, and will discuss the Scheme Cookbook. This meeting will be held in conjuction with UK Lispers.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Wednesday Aug 11th at 7pm. Christian Jacobsen and Matt Jadud will talk on 'Bring out yer dead! A Transputer Interpreter in Two Acts'. Everyone is welcome, but do let us know you are coming.
We Are Recruiting
Company expansion means that LShift are currently looking to recruit senior developers. Essentially, we are looking for people with a proven track record of leading difficult projects in a commercial environment. We expect you to combine breadth of experience (multiple OS, DBA, languages, etc.) with considerable depth of knowledge across that range.
Himalayan Trek
LShift MD Andy Wilson will be trekking in the Himalayas in Febuary to raise money for the charity Rokpa. We'll be holding a number of fund raising events over the coming months that we hope you will support. Follow the continuation link below to find out more about Rokpa's charitable work and about the trek.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Wednesday June 23rd at 7pm. Satnam Singh, of Microsoft, will present a circuit design system called Lava which is embedded in the lazy functional language Haskell. Everyone is welcome, but do let us know you are coming.
Timetracker release
LShift are proud to present Timetracker, a Java application for keeping, er, track of time. You can download a source distribution on the Timetracker information page.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Wednesday May 12th at 7pm.
We Are Recruiting
Company expansion means that LShift are currently looking to recruit senior developers. Essentially, we are looking for people with a proven track record of leading difficult projects in a commercial environment. We expect you to combine breadth of experience (multiple OS, DBA, languages, etc.) with considerable depth of knowledge across that range.
Scheme UK Meeting
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Wednesday April 7th at 7pm.
Flieger Lands
We are more than just proud to announce that Johannes Flieger has joined the LShift team as our newest Senior Developer. Johannes took his MSc at Imperial College specialising in logic-based conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and natural language processing. In the real world, Johannes is also a writer, a painter and 'a seeker of inner slack'.
NMA Site of the Week
The New Media Knowledge site designed and built by LShift and Lateral was site of the week in New Media Age magazine this week. We think this vindicates the power of our model of collaborating with other leading-edge agencies to produce sites that combine the best design and technology around today.
Proto-Shift Delivery
Congratulations to LShift Systems Director, Stuart Mottram and his wife, Sara, on the latest addition to their family.
Elaine Lynch Joins LShift
Percival failed to get The Grail and the whale defeated Ahab but, in the form of Elaine Lynch, LShift finally managed to recruit an Office Manager to replace the much-missed Jo Paradise.
LShift Developers at LISP Conference
LShift staff will be presenting papers at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in New York next month. Technical Director, Matthias Radestock, will be speaking on standardisation and portability in Scheme, while Senior Developer Michael Bridgen and LShift alumni Noel Welsh have had a paper on using Scheme in a commercial setting accepted.
LShift and Gaydar Launch SMS Service
Gaydar have launched Gaydar Mobile, an SMS service that allows users to log on to the web site using their mobile phone.
LShift Need an Office Manager
Jo Paradise, LShift's Office Manager non-pareil, has taken it upon herself to set off travelling the world. As a result we need to recruit a replacement (not that Jo could ever be replaced). We will post a full job description at any moment but, in the meantime, if you have bookeeping and office management skills and think you are up to the challenge of steering the LShift ship, please contact us urgently.
Paul Crowley Joins LShift
LShift have appointed Paul Crowley as our newest Senior Developer. Our recruitment program is such that we don't recruit on demand simply to resource new projects but are constantly looking for developers who meet our high technical standards. As such we're delighted to announce that Paul has successfully managed to navigate the long and complex road that is LShift's recruitment process.
Scheme UK Meeting on 4th September 2003
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Thursday September 4th at 7pm. Rohan Drape will present on his Scheme Supercollider client. All are welcome, but please let us know you're coming.
Clearlystartup Released
Clearlystart-up v1.1 has been released by Clearlybusiness.
Scheme UK Meeting on 7th August 2003
The next Schematics (Scheme User Group) meeting at LShift offices will be on Thursday August 7th at 7pm. Johannes C Flieger will deliver Part 3 of a series on Linear Logic. All are welcome, but please let us know you're coming.
LShift have Moved
LShift have moved offices. Company expansion over the last year means that we no longer fit so snugly into our Curtain Rd offices, so we have decamped to brighter, bigger and better equipped offices at the junction of Rufus St and Old St.
Steve Heath Joins LShift
LShift is pleased to announce the Steve Heath has joined LShift as a Senior Developer. Steve has a wealth of experience in developing web applications and Java programming.
Scheme UK Meeting on 5 March 2003
LShift hosts the meetings of the Scheme UK Scheme user's group. Scheme is an advanced programming language particularly well suited for programming web applications.
LShift in New Media Age feature
New Media Age features a major article by Greg Brooks about Lshift in its latest issue, charting the history of the company and talking about our unique approach.
Scheme UK Meeting on 5 February 2003
LShift hosts the meetings of the Scheme UK Scheme user's group. Scheme is an advanced programming language particularly well suited for programming web applications.
Tom Berger Joins LShift
LShift is pleased to announce the Tom Berger has joined the company. In addition to his work at LShift Tom is studying Linguistics.
Samaritans Website Launched
LShift worked with Agency Republic to build a campaign website for the Samaritans.
Illiad Uses SISC
The Iliad Project is using the SISC Scheme interpreter developed by LShift's Technical Director, Matthias Radestock.
Cluster Launch
LShift MD, Andy Wilson, was one of the keynote speakers at the launch meeting of The Cluster, a networking group for independent New Media agencies interested in exploring deeper agency collaborations. A website is under development here: http://www.thecluster.net Andy has also joined The Cluster Steering Committee as chairman.
New Media Knowledge
Along with Lateral and kddPR, LShift took part in a collaborative pitch to win the design, build and development of NMK's new website which is planned to launch in March 2003.