How we upgraded an obsolete Ruby on Rails application with lots of legacy code (part 1)
This post is the first one of a series where we break down how to correctly upgrade a Ruby on Rails application.
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We don't need a CEO (lessons learnt in two years running a development consultancy)
Read about what we have learnt in our second year operating as a development consultancy.
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How to build CSS grids: floats vs inline blocks
Two options for one of the biggest debates in the frontend world.
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The MarsBased CSS & HTML guidelines
Find out how we organise in our frontend projects and the tools we use.
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Code refactoring: when, why and who
While code refactoring is cool and appealing, it's not the right choice always.
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Dealing with your first hire in a distributed team
Hiring is not easy, and even less so for a remote-working company. Here's how we did it.
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The MarsBased team grows bigger: the abduction
Read about how we hired our first employee at MarsBased.
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The Martians conquer the IronHack
At MarsBased, we collaborate with dozens of different initiatives. Ironhack is one of those we love the most.
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How we make the right app for you (part 2)
A full breakdown of our techstack as of March 2014.
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How we make the right app for you (part 1)
We're often asked "what do you guys do at MarsBased?" when we're out there promoting our little dev shop. While it might get repetitive after a few hundred times, it gets never tiring: it helps us to perfect the answer. And actually, it's been a good proof that we were not conveying our message clearly enough through our communication channels.
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