Got WEINRE?
Front-End Full-Stack WebThis past week I came across the problem of debugging multiple mobile devices. Again. It seems that when things go bad with good programs,...
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,...
Highgroove Hack Night
Back-End Front-EndLike many software professionals, developers at Highgroove tend to code a lot outside of the work we do for our clients. In fact, Highgroove...
The Value of Reading Code
Back-End Front-EndHere at Highgroove, we do code reviews, which ensures everyone is reading some code on a regular basis. However, being a developer usually means...
Optimistic Locking with MongoDB
Back-End Front-EndAt Highgroove, we build database-backed web applications. These days, there are many options when choosing a database backend. We normally start with relational database...
A SQL Pattern in Rails
Back-End Front-EndActiveRecord is wonderful for the easy queries. But there are times, in the name of performance, when one must bust through the ORM...
RSpec Tip: let and nested describe/context blocks
Back-End Front-EndAt Highgroove, we test our code extensively. The best testing code has solid coverage, yet also shares many of the qualities of well-written...
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...
Introduction to Solr and Sunspot
Back-End Front-EndHe may be too humble* to admit it, but Andy Lindeman, one of our new(er) hires, is awesome.
CodeConf Recap
Back-End Front-EndApril 9th and 10th in San Francisco was the first ever CodeConf. Read on for a recap on this incredibly insightful and wonderful conference.
Open Source at Highgroove Studios: We're A Rails Shop
Back-End Front-EndVirtually every application we push to production relies very heavily on open source code in one way or another. This means we’re utilizing the...
