I recently joined Lab Zero as a software developer. My friend Brien Wankel, one of their Principal Engineers, had been encouraging me to interview here for more than a year. I hesitated because, to put it bluntly: What’s so special about another boutique software development agency? There are hundreds—if not thousands—of them in the Bay Area. Plus, I was still trying to strike gold playing the startup equity game and I had already run my own boutique software development agency for a decade.
Trying to figure out how to containerize your Phoenix application for deployment? Check out our quick-start guide on Medium: Deploying Elixir and Phoenix Applications Using Docker and Exrm
Having recently moved into the dead center of the Financial District, we at Lab Zero have found ourselves awash with new culinary opportunities. As a social bunch that values the mid-day excursion away from our desks and out of the office setting, we’ve been almost overwhelmed with the amount of lunch options that surround our office. Call it a case of paradox of choice, where we would often end up grabbing a quick bite downstairs since we couldn’t even keep in mind all of the other restaurants out there. I know, life is hard.
We've been bumping up our code style game and have published a new guide for Ruby and another for Javascript. Don't forget to also checkout our rubocop and jshint settings. Read more at the links below.
We love following best practices consistently across our projects. Writing a guide is a great way to lock-in the practices that we find works best. If you'd like to see how we bake in quality, please check out our guides!
I've been asked a number of times to show people how Lab Zero uses Selenium with Cucumber and finally extracted the basic bits into an example that you can add to any project. This rig is written in Ruby but can be used to test apps written in any language. Have a look and let me know if you'd like to know more.