Author:
Jeremy W. Sherman
I stumbled from the red-eye into the airport shortly after dawn. Bleary-eyed and back on the ground in Atlanta at last, Clojure/West, and its talk of Lisp and browser and JVMs, seemed already a distant memory. My laptop hadn’t left its TSA-friendly bag for the past week.…
Author:
Patrick Van Stee
Until recently, browsers really only supported stateless communication over HTTP. That’s beginning to change with new technologies like WebSockets and ServerSentEvents, but WebRTC throws a new feature into the mix: peer-to-peer communication. You can stream data directly between two browsers without having to connect through a server.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Jonathan Wallace explains why being healthy in every way is important to our culture.
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Gregg Rothmeier
Ruby ships with an Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB) that every Ruby developer has played around with at some point. It’s a great place to experiment with unfamiliar methods and running bits of code, but if you really want to dig into an object or do hardcore debugging, it can leave a lot to be desired.…
Author:
Stafford Brooke
The Global Day of Code Retreat is a daylong event where developers from around the world gather in small groups to practice their craft. It’s an intense day of coding where we get to pair program with others, learn new skills and focus 100% on doing it right.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
I’m excited to share with you some great news about Highgroove Studios. As of yesterday afternoon, we have merged with the Big Nerd Ranch.
The Big Nerd Ranch is a team of expert developers, specializing in training and consulting on mobile development.…
Author:
Charlie Tanksley
I love our Wolfbrain logo, but I must admit that when I started at Highgroove it was a bit of an enigma to me. It’s a wolf? With a green brain that I can see? And we are hyper-specialists in Rails?…
Author:
David Worth
I’ve written before about Highgroove’s “any conference you want, every year, on us” policy. This year, I chose to attend two events, with a cycling adventure between.
ArrrrCamp
When I originally intended to attend ArrrrCamp’12, I planned to go as a participant.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Highgroove President and developer Charles Brian Quinn explains our commitment to experimenting to find out what works best for us—and our clients.
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Dan Rice
I’ve been developing Rails applications since version 1.2. Having worked through several major Rails upgrades, I’ve learned the true value of writing tests. Simply put, tests provide confidence that features will work as designed, and will continue to work in the future.…
