Gaslight Blog
To build lasting impact with our clients, their end-users, and our community.
Sure, we love to geek out over technology and design. But it's all for a bigger purpose - boosting your business. Through development, design and business categories here on our blog - we break down our best practices, what to look for when it comes to software development, and how you can in fact, leverage technology.
02/26/18
Elm, Elixir, and Phoenix: Reflecting on a Functional Full-Stack Project
A couple days ago, I wrapped up work on a side-project I started back in December 2016. It started out as a barebones server-side-rendered Phoenix app, and my only real...
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01/02/18
TIL: How to Explicitly Set Session Expiration in Phoenix
By default Phoenix stores session data in browser cookies. I don’t know why, but I thought the default was for those cookies to never expire. It turns out by default...
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12/08/17
My Software Development Apprenticeship
The story about my first gig as a self-taught developer. I started my apprenticeship at one of the biggest companies in the world about 2 months before I started typing...
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11/16/17
Deep Stuff From Adobe Max 2017
A few weeks ago I got the super incredible opportunity to attend Adobe Max 2017 in Las Vegas! This opportunity was granted to me while I was speaking at the...
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10/26/17
Apprenticeship: From Clinical to Computer Science
Hello! I’ve been a Gaslight apprentice for four months now, and it’s great! I could not have asked for a better introduction into this field than an apprenticeship. I’m a...
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10/12/17
Apprenticeship: Building to Something Bigger
Just a little over two years ago, I was living clear on the other side of the world. I was in Japan, working as a translator, and I had just...
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