BSW Presentation: Ten Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was a Junior Developer I was thrilled to talk at Boulder Startup Week this year. Boulder Startup Week, aka BSW, is an annual celebration of startups, technology and Boulder. It's been going on for a decade (and a few things have changed about startups…
How to Handle Gobs of Photos From an Event How we built a specialized tool to get photos from photographers to a client website as quickly as possible. Continue reading "How to Handle Gobs of Photos From an Event"
A Day At the Derby We love helping our clients get ready for the big event. A lot of checking and double checking. Standing up servers. Reviewing documentation, settings and code. Meetings. Checklists. Drinking caffeinated beverages.Continue reading "A Day At the Derby"
3 Commands Your Rails CI Environment Should Run Automation + Ruby on Rails + gems == a better application We love continuous integration builds here at Culture Foundry (we even use it for projects that don’t have tests). It works well with rails applications, because rails encourages a…
Educate thyself (with our help) At Culture Foundry, we provide opportunities for ongoing training because we know the world moves fast. At Culture Foundry, we believe that the learning never stops. We also believe in investing in our employees. But what does that mean, in…
The Beginning of Our Tech Inclusion Journey It’s not always easy or comfortable, but we’re excited to become a more diverse, inclusive and equitable company with some help from NCWIT. Continue reading "The Beginning of Our Tech Inclusion Journey"
Using CircleCI to Run a Scheduled Hob How we use our CI infrastructure to automate a database migration and run it every night. We have one project where loading and transforming data is crucial. We're migrating from one data model to a quite different one. There are…
Why Public Slack Chats are Better than Direct Messages Do you even Slack, dude? We use Slack, and use it extensively. As a remote team, it's a crucial part of our workflow. I've noticed that I sometimes use direct messages when I should be asking a question in a…
Using Terraform for Managing Custom Cloud Infrastructure Using terraform to manage cloud infrastructure is a good idea, even if all you have is one S3 bucket. We use terraform to manage our cloud infrastructure. Terraform is an open source, cloud agnostic declarative tool that lets you create,…
I Love Standardrb How do you format your ruby code across developers and projects? I confess, I'm in love with standardrb. I've used other formatting tools like the hound and rubocop, but standardrb is great because it takes all the choice away from…