Strong Growth for Ruby on Rails Developers Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson, May 29, 2014 3 min read Since its launch in December 2005, Ruby on Rails has become the Web application framework of choice for a wide variety...
F# Dramatically Gains in Popularity Susan Hall, March 10, 2014 2 min read The Microsoft-backed F# functional programming language is quickly gaining popularity, according to the Tiobe...
Top 10 Places to Learn Rails Online Yael Grauer, October 4, 2013 5 min read Learning Ruby on Rails online isn’t ideal. Pair programming is considered a best practice. However, if those...
Scaling Ruby on Rails: Practical Advice Yael Grauer, July 18, 2013 7 min read It’s the problem everyone wants to have — the need for scalability due to an influx of users and clients compared...
How to Design an Engineering Training Plan Catherine Powell, March 21, 2013 11 min read We've been exploring the tale of the startup and the engineer, and how their fates became entwined. First, we looked at...
Why a Java Guy Was Hired for a Ruby on Rails Job Catherine Powell, March 6, 2013 8 min read Earlier this week, I explored the frustrating process a startup, WidgetCo, went through as it searched for an engineer...
How a Java Guy Became a Ruby Developer Catherine Powell, March 4, 2013 12 min read Once upon a time — OK, in 2012 — there was a startup and an engineer. They were both in the market, seeking their...
How New Relic Fixes Crappy Code David Spark, November 28, 2012 1 min read Why is the application slow? Is it the crappy network or is it the crappy code? Do you blame the IT guy or the...
HP’s Cloud Services Wants OpenStack Lovers David Spark, September 27, 2012 1 min read HP Cloud Services wants to talk to people who are passionate about the public cloud and OpenStack. The HP unit is...
How to Approach Authentication on Rails Pedro Visintin, August 7, 2012 6 min read Ruby on Rails went open source in late 2004, and open to commit changes in 2005. Since then, some solutions appeared to...