Back-End Engineering
Revelry’s talented engineering team – comprised of front- and back-end developers – offers expertise in a wide range of languages, frameworks, and capabilities. In addition to long-time favorites, like Elixir and Phoenix, they enjoy exploring “what’s new and what’s next,” and then sharing about it.
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Duck, Duck, Ruby: Duck Typing in Ruby
The implementation of the Ruby language is built using duck typing and it would seem wise to build our Ruby applications in that way.
My Vim Setup
I use relatively few plugins and try to keep my VIM environment as simple as possible. Here are the plugins I really like for a simple vim setup.
React Testing with Jasmine: A Simpler Way
You might want to avoid Jest if you don’t need its features, don’t like its conventions, or if Jest is incompatible with your other tools. If you choose not to use Jest, you can use Jasmine directly instead.
A Beginner’s Guide to Using the Facebook API in Your Rails Application
There are a lot of resources out there, and a lot of different ways to leverage the Facebook API. Here’s a look at the process to get up and running as a developer.
From Computer Science Student to Engineering Professional
I value the education I received from college, but I have learned in today’s world, going to college is not a requirement to becoming a good developer.
Development Problems – Xtreme Learning
Xtreme Learning: 9 Tips to Get Up and Running When You’re Cutting Your Teeth On Development Problems This guy knows when the pieces don’t…
The Setup – Minimalist Approach to OSX for Developers
You never know what you’ve got until… you get a new computer. Since I’ve recently gone through the process, I’d like to share a couple of my favorite applications.
A Quick Overview of the Network Tab in Chrome Dev Tools
A deeper look at all of the tools in the Network Tab of the Chrome Developer Tools. Some may be common, but others may be unknown and potentially very useful to any developer.
User Stories That Don’t Suck
Feel like your user stories are getting stale? Check out the Revelry process to write user stories that sets our team up for success!
Farewell Prototyping Software. Hello Designing In-Browser.
Upon first starting to work at Revelry, Gerard told me, “Eventually we’ll have you designing in the browser and you won’t need to mock everything up in Illustrator, Photoshop or Sketch.” To be quite honest, this terrified the living you know what out of me…