Writing on the Wall: Custom Whiteboards for Your Office

Back in September we outfitted out or office with walls full of long-awaited whiteboards. Whiteboards are great for brainstorming, and they make it easier[..]

Mark Van Holstyn

Better Rails Debugging with better_errors and jazz_hands

Better Errors

Does this screen look familiar? Do you notice anything wrong with this picture?

Ross Hunter

Choosing an SSO Strategy: SAML vs OAuth2

Chances are you've logged into an application (mobile app or web app) by clicking on a 'Log in with Facebook' button. If you use Spotify, Rdio, or[..]

Zach Dennis

Welcome, Casey!

Casey began his career working with his father in the automotive industry here in Michigan. In the mid-90's he moved to California and refocused his[..]

Samuel Bowles

SXSW Interactive 2013: Part 2

Day 2

I attended a talk given by David Bellona, a designer from Twitter. His presentation was called Paradox of the Cloud. There was a depressingly low[..]

Chris Rittersdorf

SXSW Interactive 2013: Part 1

The Farm - March 7th, 2013

We arrived in Austin the day before the official start SXSW. We had landed in the afternoon and were greeted by a balmy 55[..]

Chris Rittersdorf

YAGNI and Design

YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) is all about avoiding building things you don't need today. We can't predict the future so why build in features or[..]

Zach Dennis

Welcome, EJ!

As a student of Computer Science at Calvin College, E.J. was enterprising from the start. He first took a summer internship as a systems administrator[..]

Grace Eyre

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