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Are you using your tools, or are your tools using you?

8 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Jeff and Tim at The Pragmatic Bookshelf wrote a great blog post on "The Only Agile Tools You'll Ever Need" which reminded us that it's been a while since...

Yet Another Benefit of Open Source

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Bayesian networks have proven extremely useful for classifying events and documents, reliability analysis, and in many other fields. Essentially, wherever...

Getting Things Done (When the Mood Strikes)

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
As the youngest Highgroover, I don’t have quite as much reference to contrast a ROWE with a 9-to-5 type work environment. But I could tell within my first...

XMPP the Ruby Way

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
If you’ve ever tried to integrate Jabber into your app or just wanted to write a bot to respond with TWSS jokes, you’ve probably checked out XMPP4R or Switchboard...

There are a lot of reasons why Highgroove ROCKS and why I love working in a ROWE.

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
I recently had the pleasure of playing host to a friend/artist whose visit was largely inspired by the fact that I own a 3D printer. Thanks to ROWE I was...

Introducing Setler for Feature Flags

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Feature Flags are one of my favorite patterns. Ross at Flickr blogged a pretty good description on the Flickr Code blog in 2009, and a Ruby gem ‘rails-settings...

Taking Equity

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
As an index investor, I was fascinated when Y Combinator launched their innovative style of startup investing. Y Combinator spreads their portfolio over...

Taking A Break Makes You A Better Coder

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Every programmer has had this thought: “Just 15 more minutes and I’ll have that feature working!”. And 15 minutes come and go, and before you know it its...

My First Week at Highgroove

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
I just finished up my first week at Highgroove. Highgroove is a bit different from agencies I have worked in the past. Most places I have worked, developers...

My first week at Highhgroove

9 months ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
I just finished up my first week at Highgroove. Highgroove is a bit different from agencies I have worked in the past. Most places I have worked, developers...