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Backbone is amazing and so small that you have no excuse not to look at the source code as you’re using it. The hardest things I’ve encountered with Backbone are reconciling it with my experience using the Rails MVC structure…

Aaron Rosenberg

The time has come for Rubyists in general and Rails in particular to embrace Ruby’s Lisp heritage and ditch YAML as a configuration default for database. Code is Data/Data is Code. There are a host of reasons why Ruby is…

MojoTech

I’m generally focused more on what’s ahead of us than what’s behind us, but I think it’s worthwhile to take a moment, and look back at 2012. It’s been a very exciting year! In 2012 we’ve: Grown our team from under…

Nick Kishfy

We’re looking to add a Product Manager in Boston, New York, or Providence to our team. Interested in joining us? Responsibilities of the job…

Nick Kishfy

Referrals Got Us Where We Are Today Since starting MojoTech I’ve had to invest very little time in marketing. Our first clients were people I already knew from the startup community. As an early employee of two venture-backed startups, I’d built…

Nick Kishfy

Hiring a software development firm is often one of the largest decisions a new web or mobile product company will make. Questions about technology choices, programming languages, frameworks, development methodologies, and the like are all important, but so are the…

Nick Kishfy

Whenever you write code, you hold certain assumptions in your mind. You expect some conditions to be met, and you promise that, if those conditions are valid, you’ll do something in return. But sometimes, your code fails to convey those…

MojoTech

After my first day at MojoTech I wanted to introduce myself to the greater MojoTech community and share my initial reflections about the new environment. By way of introduction, I am a Rhode Islander for the last eight years but have…

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You have probably stumbled across code like this (or maybe written it yourself):…

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If you find yourself saving a 2X version of an asset for your website STOP.. seriously STOP right now.…

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