Ethan Agile development, Cucumber, How-to, In the Field, Jasmine, Testing, Web Design & Development 0
In our team’s testing process (and we do have a significant process to make sure that everything gets covered), we’ve noted in the past that we have quite a bit of overlap between what’s covered by our Javascript unit tests (typically with Jasmine) and by our browser-driving acceptance tests (Cucumber and Capybara with Selenium-Webdriver). Because [...]
Colleen Git, How-to, In the Field, Web Design & Development 0
As a designer who uses Git and Terminal on a regular basis, it pains me to talk to other front-end web developers that aren’t even aware such wonderful things exist. I could go into the many ways that Git has helped me become a better coder and designer, not to mention how many times it’s [...]
Erin In the Field, User Interface Elements We Hate, Web Design & Development 0
What it is: A form field for a phone number that’s broken up into three sections. Why I hate it: It’s fine when I know the phone number I’m entering. But if I’m entering a number I don’t know, I have to copy and paste it piecemeal rather than just plunking it in. More [...]
Erin Distributed teams, Hiring, In the Field 2
True story: Last year, Trey was conducting a phone interview with a developer. It was going badly. Five minutes in, Trey was thinking, “There’s no way I’m going to hire this guy.” The interviewee’s voice was flat, his answers were uninspired, and he just wasn’t fun to talk to. When you’re bombing an interview in [...]
Colleen In the Field, Web Design & Development 0
In this segment we explore what team members at 12 Spokes do to ready themselves for starting something new… Colleen (Web Designer) 1) New music. I love listening to music while I work and nothing jolts my creativity like listening to some new tunes. It can range anywhere from jazz and mellow (think Trio of [...]