The Unreasonable Effectiveness of TDD
DesignIn 1960, Eugene Wigner published a paper titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” In it, Wigner discusses one of the...
Building your API Early with API-First Design
Back-End Full-Stack WebAs we build apps, most workflows end up basing themselves around one interface or user experience that gets priority over others. As more and...
Getting Fancy with ElasticSearch
Back-End Full-Stack WebWhen an app requires full-text search developers usually have two major contenders to choose from: Solr and ElasticSearch. Each addresses different use cases, but...
Why Highgroove has a Personal Trainer
At Highgroove, we have a personal trainer, Cherri, on-staff and on-site, available twice a week to us, scheduled via appointment slots using Google Calendar....
If you aren't getting burned…
Highgrooves’s “bias towards action” rallying cry is no secret, and we try to abide by that rule whenever we can, whether we’re deploying or...
Yet Another Benefit of Open Source
Back-End Full-Stack WebBayesian networks have proven extremely useful for classifying events and documents, reliability analysis, and in many other fields. Essentially, wherever a well-defined chain of...
Getting Things Done (When the Mood Strikes)
As the youngest Highgroover, I don’t have quite as much reference to contrast a ROWE with a 9-to-5 type work environment. But I could...
