Ancient City Ruby 2013
Back-End Conferences Full-Stack WebJay Hayes recaps his experience at Ancient City Ruby 2013.
Community and Python
Back-End Conferences Full-Stack WebIt was a pretty big adventure for me to attend PyCon, flying across the country to a conference I’d never attended before so I...
How to Improve Rails Application Performance on Heroku
Back-End Full-Stack WebThere are many options for Ruby on Rails hosting, but Heroku is one that we recommend to clients and use internally for Ruby on...
Creating View-Centric Interfaces with the Decorator Pattern
Back-End Full-Stack WebOccasionally in the life-cycle of an application we find that we need two distinct domain objects to quack alike, even if their underlying structures differ greatly....
Intro to Rails Engines
Back-End Full-Stack WebI have recently been hearing quite a bit about people using Rails engines. I was intrigued about how they are used and how they...
Breaking table–model–controller symmetry
Back-End Full-Stack WebA while ago, I hit a lull in my skill advancement as a Rails developer. I had long since learned to think of my...
New Faces at the December Hack Night
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe December edition of Hack Night was held earlier this week. In our final Hack Night of 2012, we invited not only local developers,...
The Future of Ruby: a RubyConf Recap
Back-End Full-Stack WebThere were some great talks at RubyConf this year, covering themes like concurrency, monitoring and architecture, among others. But there were also a number of presentations...
#blackhack at the Hype!
Back-End Full-Stack WebLast weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in #blackhack, a hackathon held in Atlanta for the black tech community. Hackathons are a great...
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...
My Top 5 Pry Features
Back-End Full-Stack WebRuby ships with an Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB) that every Ruby developer has played around with at some point. It’s a great place...
2012 Global Day of Code Retreat
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe Global Day of Code Retreat is a daylong event where developers from around the world gather in small groups to practice their craft....
