Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
We’re running full steam ahead as we build our team of the best teachers, developers and all-around Nerds we can find. To help us do that, we have added culture checks to our interview process.
The purpose of these checks isn’t to figure out whether a candidate can do the job, but rather to ascertain that he or she will work well with us.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
I recently became our Developer Evangelist. In this role, my goal is to make the best developers in the world want to work with us. I constantly encourage developers to come out to the many events that we host.
In fact, we’ve got a lot of great things coming up:…
This Wednesday, Jan.
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
At Highgroove, we aim to be fast. When we jump on a project, we work with the client to understand their goals and begin delivering functionality on the first day. As the project progresses, we strive to increase the velocity of work on the project with each passing iteration.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
Last month on the 37signals blog, DHH wrote about testing like the tsa. In the article David argues for less strict test driven development and quotes Kent Beck in saying:
I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence (I suspect this level of confidence is high compared to industry standards, but that could just be hubris).…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
Highgroove really likes Pry. It’s a great tool for digging into your code and seeing what’s going on with tons of great features. However, there are situations where using a standard binding.pry breakpoint will not block your program and allow you to inspect it.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
Prior to working at Highgroove, I worked for a number of softare product companies. One of the best metrics I’ve found for measuring how great a company is to work for as a developer is the Joel Test, which is a list of 12 simple questions.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
While getting to know the very sweet Github Api v3, I ran into a little bug when trying to page though results coming back from the service. While it was frustrating at the time, Github’s support and resolution blew me out of the water.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
I’ll be honest. My reaction to my first morning in the Highgroove office was one which I thought I would not be sharing. After talking to a couple other Highgroovers, however, I realized it was a pretty common reaction. To us, our first day felt a little bit like Christmas morning.…