#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

A wonderful little gem that allows you to schedule your tasks in plain old Ruby and updates your crontab automatically on a Capistrano deploy. By Kathy Heffern (Software Developer, Giant Hat) This post originally appeared on the Giant Hat blog. There comes a point in...

TechTuesday: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of IT Management

From the trenches of IT Management… By Madhavi Arsoor (Sr. Project Manager & Author of The LEAD IT) When I started my career in IT, I was so inspired by all the managers around me. I wanted to be one among them. I wanted to be a leader in IT – leading teams to...

#TechTuesday: Build a Color Palette in Your Rails App

Follow this step-by-step guide and add colors you’ve only dreamed of. By Kathy Heffern (Software Developer, Giant Hat) This post originally appeared on the Giant Hat blog. So you decided you want to add some color to your rails app. “Hold on,” you...

#TechTuesday: From "I Don't Know" to Full-Stack Code

Desire, design and destiny: how to go from zero to coding hero. By Priyanka Sharma (Co-founder, WakaTime) This post originally appeared on WakaTime. I went to school for Political Science. There’s no logical reason why I should be running a developer analytics...