Insights
Thoughts, ideas and opinions on all things software strategy, design, and development – from the emerging tech experts at Revelry
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.
Multi-line Ellipsis Using Pure CSS As a Workaround
Two weeks ago the engineers were given a challenge to write a method that cut off a block of text leaving an excerpt trailed by an ellipsis. As soon as the engineers were given the challenge question, I began to scribble down the front-end version.
Impending Deadline? How to Not Stress Yourself Out
It’s hard to not get stressed when there is so much work to do and seemingly not enough time get it all done. In this situation, it really helps to have a strong work-life alliance.
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.
One Year with Revelry: A Recap from a Design Engineer
As I sit back and reflect on the past year, I realize just how much growth I’ve experienced. Prior to Revelry, I was working primarily in web. I was confident in my work and thought I knew it all when it came to HTML and CSS. Boy was I wrong!
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.
WFH Today – Revelry Renditions of a Common Acronym
If you aren’t familiar with the term “wfh”, it means “working from home”, which just so happens to be a very popular place to work from nowadays.
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…
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 (PM) for a small software company in the field of…
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!