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“What drives me: learning new things, perfecting my craft, working with smart and amazing people, and helping my clients succeed.” —Ian, Engineering Manager “Pairing and the regular schedule are key — I get useful things done at work every day, while having time for the rest of my lif...
At the Toronto Startup Weekend Maker Edition , my team and I created a solution called Pawly . It’s a robot equipped with a camera that allows you to check-in on your pet at home from your mobile phone. After a whirlwind 54 hours, we were extremely excited to have placed second in the...
Faraz Khan and Don Goodman-Wilson of Screenhero give an overview of the engineering challenges involved in building a high-quality video streaming system while also offering a detailed look at some of the ways Screenhero solves these problems.
A little ditty that makes it really easy to wait for something Javascripty to happen…like a Javascript dialog to appear that gets populated from an AJAX call. The has_css? method call will wait until the element shows up and if it doesn’t show up before the Capybara timeout expires th...
Josiah Carlson presents a number of detailed examples of how to build on the strengths of Postgres while using Redis.
Open up your hand-sized glowing rectangle. traverse a glorious landscape of stories, messages and photography anywhere in the universe. It’s really quite Incredible. Taps, swipes and drags take us anywhere we want to go. However, these views, navigation structures and transitions are ...
A couple of days ago, I attended the first Toronto edition of Wearable Wednesdays hosted at HackerYou ’s and Ladies Learning Code ’s new Learning Labs . It’s a tradition that started in San Francisco just a month ago . It was fascinating to get a firsthand look into this budding techn...
