Software Engineering

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Continuous Integration

Using Rails and Webpacker to serve a Javascript library

Webpacker makes it easy to develop a client Javascript library for JAMstack sites to interface with APIs, while bringing the entire stack of friendly and familiar Rails tools to bear for development and testing.

Continuous Integration

Running your Rails Test Suite with Dockerized Selenium on Gitlab CI

With just 3 drop in tweaks, it's possible to run Rails' System Tests on Gitlab CI, or other Docker based continuous integration services.

Quality Control

How to write a great bug report

A great bug report can be as short as a tweet. When written well, it can be quickly addressed—and will earn you the love of your dev team.

Culture

The Coding Dojo visits Neoteric Design

Around 20 developers-in-training visited Neoteric to learn about work life at a small software firm.

Delivering Paperclip and Pipeline Assets through Amazon CloudFront

CDN configuration is tricky and adds complexity to a server set up, but is well worth the effort.

Conference Notes

Ruby Can Do That - Looking back at RubyConf 2016

A reflection on the where Ruby is headed after RubyConf 2016.

Conference Notes

RubyConf 2015 Retrospective

I attended my first RubyConf this year, and it was a great experience

Conference Notes

Windy City Rails 2015 Retrospective

I attended my first Windy City Rails conference last week, and it was a good time. Got to meet some of the folks from other local companies as well as a few from San Francisco. Every talk brought something good to the table, but here’s the few biggest takeaways I had.

Migrating a Decade of Work to Gitlab

We’re in the process of refreshing many of our internal tools here and the cornerstone is a trusty, old, plain Gitolite server. It sat behind the scenes faithfully chugging away, but as we pile on more and more projects, collaborators, and general legacy cruft, we were looking for a clean break.

A Breakdown of the Apprenticeship

A final writeup and breakdown of the Neoteric Design Beta Apprenticeship Program

Apprenticeship Week 8

Graduation!

Apprenticeship Week 7

Deploy and Clean up

Apprenticeship Week 6

Fancying up the place in week six.

Apprenticeship Week 5

Heads down development all week!

Apprenticeship Week 4

Halfway through!

Apprenticeship Resources

Apprenticeship Week 3

Hitting the ground running.

Apprenticeship Week 2

My second week of apprenticeship is at a close, and it was a busy one.

Apprenticeship Week 1

Only one week into the apprenticeship and already I've learned much!

Culture

Where Are the Women Coders?

The tide may be shifting for women in technology, as vocal predecessors like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer make waves as influential leaders. But how are we, as individual practitioners, accountable for the gender gap in our industry, and how can more minds be included in the making of our future?

Heroku, Rails, and Postgres: Get with the Timezone!

Quick instructions to get your rails, heroku, and postgresql timezone settings working in harmony.

Product Design

Rooftop Brown Bag Lunch: Service Oriented Architecture

At this week's Brown Bag Lunch Talk, Nick made panini sandwiches (with home grown heirloom tomatoes, including Sonia's grown-from-seed sungold cherries; mozzarella; spinach; and turkey) and we all headed to the roof deck for a lively discussion on service-oriented application architecture.

Checking the online status with PhoneGap & jQuery

When using Phonegap to build native iPhone projects you need to setup offline detection, especially if you're making AJAX calls. Phonegap has a very easy to use API for this, but it can be a little tricky when used in conjunction with jQuery.

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