Our Thoughts and Stories, page 4 of 6
It's hard to write when we're always so busy creating for our amazing clients! However, we do find time sometimes to share our thoughts on crafting Rails, iOS and Mac apps out of Knoxville, TN.






We've Rebranded
- Tue - Apr 04, 2017
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- By Chris
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- entrepreneurship
As we evolve and grow as a company we want to show a better view of ourselves and what we do. We are currently undertaking many changes in marketing and branding to become more visible to a greater audience.
3 Tips to Create New Software Solutions
- Wed - Mar 29, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- entrepreneurship
If you've ever thought about creating a new software product, either for your existing business or something new entirely - then let's explore what creating a new software solution entails and a few tips to get you on your way.
How to Make Marketing Yourself Easy
Marketing yourself is hard and there are a lot of little tricks to make sure you are doing the right thing to get clients.
How to Use Slack Voting
- Tue - Mar 21, 2017
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- By Chris
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- marketing, entrepreneurship, design, development
Learn how to use slack for more than just simple messaging. Better workflows for their employees and clients, make it easier with voting in slack messaging.
How to Create Threadsafe Ruby Sidekiq Workers
- Thu - Mar 16, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- ruby-on-rails, programming
Thread safety in general can be difficult to wrap your head around at times, but at the simplest level if you have data shared between threads then things can get messy. As always, concrete examples are easier than theory!
MetaProgramming Ruby to Manage Raspberry PI GPIO
- Tue - Mar 14, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- ruby, raspberry-pi, programming, IoT
In this post, we’re going to examine how we can easily describe all of the possible states for an indicator (think LED light) on a device and how we can most cleanly represent that definition by using metaprogramming ruby to manage the Raspberry Pi GPIO pin state.
What is the Internet of Things or IoT? (Part 2)
- Thu - Mar 09, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- IoT
We examine the power provided when combining IoT development with custom software solutions.
What is the Internet of things or IoT? (Part 1)
Buzzwords are super popular in tech circles, but keeping track of the latest trends and jargon is what we do best!
What are Standup Meetings?
- Thu - Mar 02, 2017
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- By Chris
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- entrepreneurship
What are standup meetings and how do they help keep your project on track.
How to Use Sidekiq without Rails
- Tue - Feb 28, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- ruby, raspberry-pi, programming, IoT
Read how we used Sidekiq (without Rails) with SystemD on a Raspberry Pi.
How to use SSH Port Forwarding in Ruby HTTP Library
- Thu - Feb 23, 2017
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- By Matt Millsaps-Brewer
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- networking, linux, ruby-on-rails
Sometimes you need to connect to a restricted server, by tunneling through a server that does have access — from your local machine. SSH tunneling and port forwarding are common ways to accomplish this.
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