SWAG is the first step in a web development partnership – and we don’t mean style. See what questions we ask ourselves and our potential clients before calculating our ballpark project estimates.
WTF is a SWAG?
30 Jan 2017
Development Posts
3 Useful Lessons from Installing Thinking Sphinx on Engine Yard
19 Jan 2017
Installing Thinking Sphinx on Engine Yard soon? Here's a few helpful tips to navigate through the process.
Oh My Zsh on FLOSS Weekly
15 Nov 2016
Earlier today, I was interviewed on Twit.tv's open source talk show about my project, Oh My Zsh.
Does Ruby on Rails Scale?
26 Oct 2016
Friends over at RubyGarage discuss how we in the Ruby on Rails community approach scaling our applications in a DZone article.
Oh My Zsh: The Most Popular Productivity Tool on GitHub
17 Oct 2016
InfoWorld recently showcased seven of the most popular productivity tools on GitHub.
Can you guess what ranked at the top?
Our own founder, Robby Russell’s, creation Oh My Zsh, which has accumulated over 43,000 GitHub stars. Created in 2009 as an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration, it comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, and themes.
Check it out!
What's so new about Bootstrap 4?
4 Oct 2016
We have been using Bootstrap as our go-to frontend framework for a few years now and it has been working great. The next version of Bootstrap is on the horizon and currently has an alpha release. Let’s take a look at what Bootstrap 4 has in store for us.
Explain The MIT License Like I'm Human
30 Sep 2016
Kyle E. Mitchell took some time to write up an explanation of The MIT License. One line at a time... in non-legal speak.
Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Code
29 Sep 2016
The blank canvas is not my friend.
How the f^%k does DNS work?
27 Sep 2016
Our friends over at dnsimple put together a comic to help explain how Domain Name Services work.
Fun fact: the first Linux server I was ever paid to put into production was a DNS server running on Bind and Slackware.
Why We Moved Our Site Off of Squarespace
21 Sep 2016
Early this year, we launched a redesign of our website on Squarespace. After a few months, we had a handful of features we loved, but also a lot of roadblocks we were tired of maneuvering around. So we faced another decision, move off or add more development time into making it work. This story is about what we learned, and why we said goodbye to Squarespace.