Designing Naked Or, How I Stopped Worrying (and Learned To Love Agile).

I was afraid to work in an agile environment. I felt like I would be amongst a group of developers who wouldn't understand where I was coming from. This[..]

Victor Sirotek

Interested in Teaching Video Game Design and Development?

Calling all developers and designers from the West Michigan community. It’s not every day we get the opportunity to impact the lives of teens right here[..]

Zach Dennis

Retrospectives

This past weekend I was spending time with my brother and his family. One of the things I love about visiting with them (besides their adorable kids) is[..]

Zach Dennis

Web Sockets

Building applications for the web means working within the bounds of what is technically feasible over the Internet. For a long time the limitations of[..]

Ryan Montgomery

Class Coercion in Ruby

I often run into situations where I'm working with something that's essentially a number, but I want it to behave just a little differently. For example,[..]

Zach Church

Clean Commits

Clean code is important in an agile environment. It's courteous to leave clean, expressive code for the next developer who has to dig through it. When[..]

Chris Rittersdorf

How Violent Is Your Communication?

I am in the process of reading a book that I am very excited about, "Coaching Agile Teams" by Lyssa Adkins. The reading is slow-going because each[..]

Paula Mierendorf

TextMate Evernote Clipper

I’m a really big fan of Evernote. It lets me loosely organize things I find important without much hassle. Not only does it support basic text notes, but[..]

Zach Dennis

Chinese Proverb

Recently while reading I found a venerable chinese proverb that reminded me of the our team here at MHS:

Zach Dennis

Celebration Retrospective

Recently, we finished a few large projects and headed off-site to celebrate and retrospect with ice cream from The Parlor at Cherry Hill Market. Thanks[..]

Paula Mierendorf