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.
06/03/14
Guidelines for Effective Pair Programming
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer, pointer or navigator,...
Read More →
05/30/14
4 Lessons Any Struggling Business Can Learn from Kitchen Nightmares
I’m a big fan of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. The British version, not the American one. I enjoy watching, not because the shows are about cooking, but because they’re about business....
Read More →
05/27/14
Why Simpler is Better for Tracking Project Health
As a group of software developers and designers, we talk a lot about what makes for a good product. High code quality, beautiful design, intuitive UI, and excellent test coverage...
Read More →
05/20/14
Recognizing MVC Myopia in a Rails Application
How did we get here? Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “Don’t put logic in your views”. Although Rails developers debate how much logic is too much for a...
Read More →
05/15/14
Gaslight Podcast: Building an Employee Owned Company with Ry Walker
Your browser does not support the audio element. Ry Walker, Differential partner, talked with Michael Guterl and me about how he is “breaking the rules” to build his ideal company....
Read More →
05/13/14
Building AngularJS forms with JSON Schema
Formtastic and simple_form, how we miss you Around 3 years ago I came to the realization that building web applications using client side MVC frameworks was the future. I’ve embraced...
Read More →
