The Grand Rapids GiveCamp is always a learning experience for me. For those who aren’t familiar with this event, GiveCamp gathers a large group of talented software professionals to volunteer their time and energy to assist area non-profit organizations with...
I have been a (relatively) long time Sublime Text 2 user. Early 2011, I was running Ubuntu on my laptop and wasn’t happy with any text editors I was finding. I gazed longingly at TextMate on my colleagues’s Macbooks, but overall I was happy with my OS...
Recently, I’ve been spending time with Arthur Riel’s 1996 book: Object Oriented Design Heuristics. One of the 62 heuristics offered in his work is short and sweet, yet powerful and essential in building quality, understandable, and maintainable software:...
Ross is our newest software craftsman and a bit of a polymath; his life took some varied and interesting turns before he came to us. Like many programmers, he dabbled a bit by building websites in high school. As he got older, Ross held on to these skills, even after...
Greetings all! We wanted to share some exciting news about our forthcoming activities. Next Monday and Tuesday, July 30th, and 31st, many of us are headed to Austin, TX to attend Chargicon, the first event of its kind hosted by Chargify. Chargify is a cool company...
For a business whose central focus is a web application, the API is often a springboard for moving the company from just another application to a platform for developers. When an application becomes a platform, the participation of developers can move business...
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