Introducing Setler for Feature Flags
Back-End Front-EndFeature Flags are one of my favorite patterns. Ross at Flickr blogged a pretty good description on the Flickr Code blog in 2009,...
The Impact of Performance Tools on Performance -OR- Use Your Environments!
Back-End Front-EndUsing different ‘environments’ in Ruby on Rails development is an established best practice. Rails provides you with 3 default ones: Production, Development,...
Dirty Forms
Back-End Front-EndWhen building fancy AJAXy apps that have complex user flows outside of page navigation, it’s important to let users know if they are about...
Iterations Are Dead, Long Live Iterations!
A Post by Erik Huddleston RIP: The Iteration 19?? - 2010 came across our desks last week, and it sound’s like he’s pretty serious...
Code Coverage and Ruby 1.9
Back-End Front-EndBug-free code is hard to come by, but we strive to do the best we can. The most important part of this is automated...
Communicate early, Communicate often, but don't repeat yourself!
Communication can be pretty tough, especially when people with very different backgrounds are working together to translate vague business requirements into a crisp web...
Glue, Facebook, and Twitter
Back-End Front-EndAt Highgroove, we’re experts at glue. Not that kind of glue, but the kind that connects one technology to another.
Nephophobia
Clientsnephophobia. Part of Speech: n. Definition: a fear of clouds. Etymology: Greek nephos ‘cloud’. dictionary.com
Week One at Highgroove
After several years on the Operations team at SugarCRM, I decided to change things up a bit. As of this past Monday, I...
Requiring a minimum version of OS X for your application
MacSupporting old OS versions is always a lot of work for application developers.
Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query
When maintaining a large database system that requires high availability, there are times when you want to run some maintenance queries without impacting the...
