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How our Rails 5 app served more than a million people in 2,5 weeks

In the last 2,5 weeks, our little side-project ispokemongoavailableyet.com served:2.785.168 pageviews1.170.496 unique visitors...

400.000+ people signed up for a Pokémon Go launch notification in one week, this is what we learned

A brief timeline of events, numbers and learnings on our side-project that went viral. More important; what value did we get from it?

Adventure Time

Most developers are curious beings. I believe that this is one of our greatest assets. This curiosity lets us try out things...

Preview of the new Intercity UI

I've got some exciting things to show you. As you might know, Intercity is our home-grown web-based management dashboard for hosting...

Tab Bar native-hybrid app with Xcode storyboards and Turbolinks 5

It's the most promising change to Ruby on Rails I've been waiting for: the ability to create hybrid-native mobile apps...

Firmhouse is looking for a front-end developer

We are looking to add a front-end developer to our remote distributed team. We're currently a team of all-around Rails developers...

Strategy eats Lean Startup for Breakfast

Every successful start-up has started out small. Learn how to set priorities based on market types.

Under the Radar: How Floorplanner Used Money From Cash-Flow to Buy Their Highly Funded Competitor

I sat down with Gert-Jan van der Wel and talked about their business, crucial moments and biggest lessons over the past years...

Integrate Brakeman in your workflow

A while ago I wrote an article about integrating Rubocop into your workflow. Now that we are checking for code style, it is time to improve the workflow...

Controlling HTML5 audio/video tags on mobile Safari

For a side-project (http://lekkerluisteren.nl) I am using HTML5 audio tags and controlling them via JavaScript. The side project is a simple...

Announcing Formbox - our latest (ad)venture

Last Friday, we’ve released Formbox, our form-backend as a service. After using Formbox for more than six months internally...

Setting up SSL for your Rails app

In March 2015, I wrote about setting up SSL for your Rails app. Back then, only 16.4% of the 148.486 most popular website had secure SSL implemented.

Coming soon

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