The Industrial Revolution brought with it the concept of division of labor. Having specialists in all areas of production led to faster production with higher quality. The concept applies well to software development and has led to roles like front-end, back-end, and dev-ops engineer. Frequently - especially for start-ups - it doesn't make sense to develop certain technology … [Read more...]
Solving the delayed AngularJS UI rendering server-side with Rails
We've now been writing some awesome AngularJS code at BuildZoom for nearly a year. It's helped us release great features faster and provided for a significant ease of maintenance over the previously used "classical" jQuery. One issue that became apparent was the delay in rendering the templates and data client-side. The extra round trips for various JS libraries and the … [Read more...]
Six Months with AngularJS at BuildZoom
Last week at BuildZoom, we rolled out a complete rework of how homeowners manage their remodeling projects through our service. Since deploying our first feature that leveraged the AngularJS JavaScript framework six months ago, the magnitude of the angular code we’ve sent to production has increased with every release. This latest release continues the trend, leveraging a slew … [Read more...]