As we celebrate our 10 year birthday, we thought it was time for a rebrand to reflect how we are growing as an agency. HISTORY OF THE 3CHILLIES BRAND  It all started back in 2006 as Paul Spearman and Bryan Archer sat in the local curry house mulling over their plans for setting up their very own development agency. A name for the company hadn’t yet been decided upon, and with the imminent registration paperwork approaching ever closer, it remained the single missing ingredient in the plan.  The name had to be energetic, young at heart, ...

I recently attended the Skillsmatter Fullstack Conference, which proved to be a great learning opportunity. A wide range of topics were covered including really useful browser tooling advancements, from Google's Addy Osmani, studies of Typescript, ECMA6 (the latest revision of Javascript), UI & UX best practices as well as so much more.In my opinion, the two most important talks were on securing web applications against hackers.How developers can own their own securityThis talk from Tim Buntel and Paul Boss encouraged developers to ...

Life is good at 3chillies. We work hard, but every now and then we like to play hard too.The foosball table has become an important part of office life at 3chillies. In a way, I suppose it’s our watercooler area… but make no mistake, the foosball table is no place for dilly-dallying. The competition is intense!We absolutely love the game. In fact we love it so much that each signature move has been assigned a nickname! So if you don’t know your bamboozler from your bobbler, why not take a moment to read up on this amusing, but deadly ...

Dear Friends, Partners, and Loyal Customers,Over the last few years, we’ve been sending out some rather imaginative Christmas cards. We hope you’ve enjoyed the creativity behind them…chili peppers aren’t exactly the most festive of food items, but we’ve always managed to sneak them into the design work.If you’ve been lucky enough to have received one of these cards in the past, please don’t be offended when you don’t receive one this year because we’ve decided to do something a little different.Instead of paying to design, print and send ...

This time 6 months ago I was handing in my university dissertation, titled “Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Service Management for Mars IS”, wondering how I might implement my learnings in a full time career. A few short months later, I found myself with the fitting position of Support Co-ordinator at 3chillies!After joining, it quickly became apparent that 3chillies operated a strong support system. I suppose that much was already obvious from their impressive client base, but the transition towards issuing a fully managed ...

If you enjoy supporting your national team whenever they're on the pitch, you’ll probably know that the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament has begun!To bring a little bit of competitive spirit to the office, we thought it would be a good idea to run a company sweepstake. The rules were simple: Stick a fiver in, pull a team name out of the hat, and the person with the winning team wins the pot. There was one fundamental problem - developers don’t care about football.With 24 teams in the competition, but only 5 employees wanting to join the ...

A few weeks ago we blogged about the 3chillies UEFA 2016 sweepstake. Despite England’s embarrassing early exit to Iceland, the Euros were a pleasure to watch and enjoyed by all …even the Welsh!Well, now the Euros are over and we have a winner!!!!!The nail-biting final took place between Alex Tozer (who had Portugal) and Liam Hicks (who got the pre-match favourites, France). The rivalry was heightened by the fact they both work in the support department. Needless to say, Alex is now a big fan of Portuguese football…and Liam isn’t. Here's a ...

We're proud to announce that Paul Thomas, Director of Sales at 3chillies, has been selected as a member of the BIMA 100.BIMA (the British Interactive Media Association) is the membership organisation representing and connecting the British digital sector. Originally founded in 1985 it has now grown to become one of the most widely respected names in the digital industry.The BIMA 100 were chosen from public nominations by a panel of industry experts. Members of the exclusive group are treated to an invitation-only event at Ham Yard Hotel ...

On Friday we came together to celebrate the company’s 10th birthday!We started the day by ordering in 25 chocolate caterpillar cakes, which [rather unfortunately] weren’t for us…Each one was bundled up with a brand new 3chillies mug and sent out to some of our closest friends and partners (We can only hope the caterpillars survive the postal journey!).At 3pm it was time to grab a beer and some branded birthday cake in preparation for the bi-annual company meeting. During the meeting, we reviewed some of the awesome projects we’ve built ...

T’was a misty morning on Friday 22nd September, when the team at 3chillies ventured into the woods, armed to the nines with paintballs, paint bombs, smoke grenades and for many of us, the M16 gun upgrade (purely for the improved accuracy that it offered, NOT because we have a deep underlying desire to look and feel cool).  The war was a brutal one, Blue vs Red, and it didn’t take long for the shooters to realise that their XP in Call of Duty counted for nothing. An hour’s ceasefire scheduled at noon allowed sufficient time for each player ...