Development
Our Engineering team, apprentices, Front-End Developers, and Designers share insights on the development process
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…
Building APIs With JSON API
In this post we will explore the JSON API format and how it can be used to make interacting with your API consistent and easy.
Product Manager to Software Developer in One Year
A little over a year ago, I found myself working as a Product Manager for a small software company in the Healthcare field. Initially…
Dynamic Child Components with React
I’d like to suggest a simple piece of advice to fellow React devs out there. When rendering dynamic arrays of child elements within a React component…
Don’t Forget Your Keys!
Death by SaaS – Long Live SaaS
Every Tuesday night in New Orleans the developer community gets together for Hack Night. We rave and argue about old and new technologies and…
Music & Coding
I never thought I would become a programmer. I stumbled into web development while I was studying music in college. Believe me, I was surprised when I ended up becoming a professional web developer.
Hi, I’m a Recruiter and I’m Coming for Your Employees
That’s basically what someone told me on the phone last week. Jon answered the phone and the caller, a recruiter, asked to be connected…
3 Bits of CSS That I’m Going to Start Using Everyday
Viewport Sized Typography, CSS Columns, and Using CSS Shapes as Text Wrap
Skinny Everything (Part 3 of 3)
Any software developer who deals with MVC frameworks has most likely come across the mantra “Fat Model, Skinny Controller”. This is not a good philosophy. It is a bad idea to have a fat model. In fact, it is a bad idea to have a fat anything. Instead, you should strive for Skinny Everything.
Faster Software Development with (Smart) Technical Debt
“technical debt” noun. the sum of costs owed to one’s computational progeny for past transgressions against their design and future well-being If you’re like…