You Will Be Assimilated

Retention and Growth are Hard.

I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that most folks reading this post know who the Borg are. They are a fictitious (yes,[..]

Jonah Bailey

Speeding Things Up With jRuby

If you hang around the Ruby community for long enough, you'll undoubtly hear talk about the the dreaded Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The GIL is a[..]

Jack Slingerland

Creating a Sublime Text 2 Plugin

As Ross pointed out recently in a blog post, Sublime Text 2 is awesome. From the code mini-map to multi-line editing, Sublime Text 2(ST2) is hard to beat.[..]

Jack Slingerland

Lessons from GiveCamp 2012

The Grand Rapids GiveCamp is always a learning experience for me. For those who aren't familiar with this event, GiveCamp gathers a large group of[..]

Matthew Seeley

Configuring Sublime Text 2

I have been a (relatively) long time Sublime Text 2 user. Early 2011, I was running Ubuntu on my laptop and wasn't happy with any text editors I was[..]

Ross Hunter

One Key Abstraction

Recently, I've been spending time with Arthur Riel's 1996 book: Object Oriented Design Heuristics. One of the 62 heuristics offered in his work is short[..]

Zach Dennis

Welcome, Ross!

Ross is our newest software craftsman and a bit of a polymath; his life took some varied and interesting turns before he came to us. Like many[..]

Grace Eyre

Announcement: Mutually Human at Chargicon

Greetings all! We wanted to share some exciting news about our forthcoming activities.

Grace Eyre

A Look at Balanced Team Chicago

Last month, Ryan, Samuel and Mark took a trip to Chicago to attend the Balanced Team Conference, generously hosted by IDEO. Balanced Team Chicago was a[..]

Grace Eyre

Browsers, Scrollbars and Styling

At the computer on my desk, there were three browsers in which to view the implementation. We viewed the implementation in the first browser.

Zach Dennis