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.
04/03/14
Testing Behavior vs. Testing Implementation
Test-driven development is more art than science, and understanding what to test for comes only with experience. Further complicating things is that testing for the wrong stuff can create a...
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04/01/14
What Community Has Done For Me
In the beginning… “There’s safety in numbers” as they say. As species go, Homo sapiens were not the first to figure that out. “Community” is at least a couple eons...
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03/28/14
Gaslight Podcast: Ruby Culture with Dave Thomas
Your browser does not support the audio element. In this episode, Dave Thomas, Doug Alcorn and I discuss how Dave became involved with Ruby, how the culture of Ruby has...
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03/27/14
Structuring CSS on the Filesystem
Introduction Chris Moore already pointed out that CSS is the last frontier of web development and that we’re mostly using BEM to structure our CSS at Gaslight. Six months has...
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03/25/14
The Best Resources for Learning Elixir
I’ve had a ton of fun learning Elixir lately, and have been trying to consume as much content about it as I can. It is really a shame that my...
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03/20/14
The Problem With Novel User Interfaces
Perusing the website of a User Experience Coach, I found a case study with this example mock-up for a search interface: The user swipes a list of items to the...
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