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Less Code is Better

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
It’s a good thing we don’t charge by the lines of code we write in an application. On a recent project, we’ve been keeping track...

Less Code is Better

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
It’s a good thing we don’t charge by the lines of code we write in an application. On a recent project, we’ve been keeping track...

Iterations Are Dead, Long Live Iterations!

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
A Post by Erik Huddleston RIP: The Iteration 19?? – 2010 came across our desks last week, and it sound’s like he’s pretty serious in ...

Have a Magical Conference!

over 1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
If I simply wanted to learn the basics of Cucumber, RGeo, TorqueBox, or any number of other interesting open-source Ruby technologies, I could sit down...

Setting Big Goals, and Achieving Them

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
A little over a year ago, I weighed about 80 pounds more than I do today. Today, I am healthy, strong, energetic, happy, and more confident. Losing...

Code Coverage and Ruby 1.9

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Bug-free code is hard to come by, but we strive to do the best we can. The most important part of this is automated testing, and code coverage metrics are...

Open Source at Highgroove Studios: We're A Rails Shop

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Virtually every application we push to production relies very heavily on open source code in one way or another. This means we’re utilizing the experience...

Highgroove Studios is officially ROWE approved!

~1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
We recently submitted an application to receive the official ROWE seal of approval. Not only did we receive approval, we also received a personal response...

GiraffeSoft FLOSS Week: Begins Today!

~1 year ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
James Golick just opened our company blog by adding FLOSS week. Over the next few days we’ll release a couple of plugins that we’ve been working...

ib_outlet Doesn't Create Accessors

~1 year ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
Lately, I’ve been having fun with RubyCocoa while reading Brian Marick‘s RubyCocoa. It’s an entertaining book, and I really like RubyCocoa...