Keeping a Development Journal

Life gets crazy, and things slip our minds. A great discovery, a bug, or a general direction we were taking our code can get lost between development sessions. In my personal projects, where time between development sessions can be days or weeks, I have been keeping a development journal. As much as it takes an […]

Google Analytics for Single-Page Web Apps with Ember

Single-page web apps are awesome — they have so much flexibility and power. Unfortunately, when users browse a single-page web app, Google Analytics doesn’t work as intended when changing “pages”. Under the hood of these engines lies DOM manipulation to change what is displayed on screen, but Google Analytics watches for page changes. Fortunately, Ember […]

Changes Pending! Ember Data Dirty State Tracking

I have been working with Ember and Ember Data for the past few projects. We’ve recently had cases where we have a dirty form state (unsaved changes) and we want to restrict actions to prevent data loss. We’ve come up with a solution that lets us get a rough track on the current state of […]

Your App Idea Stinks! 3 Steps to Make it Better

You come up with a great idea for an app, and you’re sure it’s going to sell! You plan to have it built and in all of the app stores in a few months — soon after that, you’ll take a vacation or retire on your vast app income. The app, the idea, and the marketing plan […]

Extending Google Sheets: Uptime Monitor

Google Docs (and the recently-improved Google Sheets) are powerful tools. In the last few years, there have been some awesome additions to these products, one of which is Google Apps Scripting. With the apps scripting tools, you can write your own menus and background tasks for Google Drive, plus general scripts for the Google Apps […]

The Startup Stack: Part 3 – Out in The Wild

Its time to go live! The team has completed the initial set of work and we are ready to bring the application online to the public. We have our team and project managed well, our code is checked in and passing in our CI, we are ready to run it off of a server and […]

The Startup Stack: Part 2 – Building the Product

In part one of this series we covered tools for team communication and collaboration and project planning. In this section we will focus on building and testing the product. Like I said in the part one, these services may be partially skewed to a Ruby on Rails project, but will mostly assume you are building […]

The Startup Stack: Part 1 – Building the Team

You have an idea, a few friends, and no money to execute the idea. How do you bring together all the tools you need to get your app designed, built, tested, and maintained without spending any money? Without an app, you can’t get funding… What can you do? Fortunately, there are plenty of companies offering […]

Developing on the Bleeding Edge

Developing with bleeding-edge technologies is tempting, but is it worth it? Using the latest languages and frameworks is a scary and exhilarating place to be. Changes happen quickly, new patterns emerge and evolve in a handful of hours. Of course, avoiding the bleeding edge is also scary, if you think about it; who wants to […]

Constant Personal Optimization

Software development keeps me constantly on my toes. I am always learning and growing my knowledge about languages, techniques, and extensions. Sometimes it can be downright exhausting. Google, Stack Overflow, Wikipedia, Forums, and blogs are always on my reading list. Seeing that I can keep up with the ever changing technology environment, I started applying […]

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By: Jared Sartin

Author: Jared Sartin