A Look at PureScript - Part I
PureScript allows for rapid JavaScript development, without the JavaScript. This post presents reasons why you should take a closer look at PureScript.
June 12, 2014 9:00 am -0500
June 6, 2014 9:00 am -0500
valid_data - Forking for Fun and Profit in Ruby
We've recently released valid_data, a gem to check if your data is valid according to your ActiveRecord validations. We modified this library in order to process the data in parallel, leading to drastic performance improvements. This post discusses the approach that we used, and presents benchmarks demonstrating the speed improvement.
Working Remotely
Most of the people who work at Stack Builders work out of the office, but there are a few of us, like at many companies, that work out of a home office with trips here and there to the corporate offices. Learn from our experiences in working remotely!
Stack Builders' Haskell Workshop with Eric Jones Part 1
Stack Builders' Eric Jones will be conducting a free introductory workshop on Haskell this afternoon. Don't miss it!
Code Battleship
This article presents the fun and useful game of "Code Battleship" to evaluate the quality of your codebase.
May 21, 2014 11:46 am -0500
Stack Builders Releases Valid Data Ruby Gem
We've released one of our first open-source Ruby gems: it's called valid_data, and you can use it to scan your ActiveRecord models for invalid rows. We use the gem at Stack Builders from time-to-time in order to "check in" with our datastore and make sure we don't have validation-related problems in our applications.
Blog Hacking With Octopress
It sometimes seems that everyone on the Internet has a blog, and every blogger has their own blogging platform. This post presents the "Ruby Way" to create blog content.
May 11, 2014 11:45 am -0500
From Type Theory to Haskell in 10 Minutes
Type systems are so prevalent in modern programming languages that we probably take them for granted. But what exactly is a "type", and what are its origins in the history of computational logic? In this post, we'll take you on a 10-minute tour from Leibniz's effective computability dilemma, through Russell's theory of types and Church's lambda calculus, all the way to Haskell, Stack Builders' favorite strongly-type and functional programming language.
Stack Builders a finalist for the SmartCEO Voltage Award
Stack Builders has been chosen as one of thirty leaders in technology in NYC as a finalist in the SmartCEO Voltage Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on April 30th.
April 3, 2014 12:44 pm -0500
Welcoming Our Newest Team Member, Haskeller and Rubyist Eric Jones!
Stack Builders is proud to announce our most recent addition to the development team. Eric Jones is an accomplished Rubyist and Haskeller, and we couldn't be more excited to have him as part of our growing team which spans New York and South America!