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Bespoke development as an alternative to Wordpress

Last year, we started working for an international marketing agency. One of the main reasons they chose us is because they understood that quick-and-dirty development on Wordpress just didn’t cut it anymore for them, and they wanted to invest in bespoke technology.

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Going for Martian Tapas with our distributed development team

Running an officeless company, where all of our team works from different locations, means having to devise strategies for team bonding. A really cool one for development teams is to go for tapas every Thursday. Oh, wait, forgot to mention it, virtual tapas about Ruby, JavaScript and development in general.

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Client side file uploads with Amazon S3

S3 client-side uploads on top of Middleman using a simple Rails application to authorize file uploads and downloads.

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So, do you guys do only Ruby for the backend?

This is a question we are asked all too frequently from outside the company. However, we recently asked this very question ourselves. Yes, we only do Ruby and that isn't going to change anytime soon.

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Three years running our first business: lessons learnt

Everyone said that a full-remote, employees-first, quality-driven consultancy highly specialised in niche technologies would not work. Here we are after three years.

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How to do agile prototyping using static pages to reduce development time

Learn how we help our customers to reduce their time to market by prototyping on static pages, not on the real product.

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Five reasons why you should attend next year's EuRuKo

We're huge fans of the EuRuKo, and we think you should be one, too.

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What is the best Ruby on Rails CMS?

We have compared the most popular CMS built with Ruby on Rails according to user experience, flexibility to develop on top of them and other Martian criteria.

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Five reasons why our clients love Ruby on Rails for their apps

Contrary to popular belief, developing your project using Ruby on Rails won't make it more difficult to maintain. It's a competitive advantage, nowadays.

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