We love writing tests at Made HQ. They are part of the foundation on which we work to provide our clients with stable deliveries. We work fast and deploy daily so we test vital paths of our applications using feature tests. We also unit test, albeit less, when we need to cover a range of edge cases.
Made Tech Blog
How we communicate our ideas, or “English should still be our first language”
Our industry is all about the communication of ideas. It’s not just about being able to communicate our ideas to a machine – a big part of our job involves the ability to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical people, as well as translating and solidifying ideas into usable products.
Brevity vs. Comprehensibility
We love using SCSS here at Made, and the way in which we use it is constantly evolving. However, one particular and admittedly quite clever feature of SCSS has bugged me from day one, which is referencing a parent selector inside the current one:
Microservices: Pros & Cons of Using Microservices On A Project.
When designing software, you would typically use classes, modules and patterns like SRP to separate concerns and isolate functionality within your codebase.
Scary New Code
I’ve been writing software on my own for years, but one of my biggest challenges since starting at Made has been learning how to work in a team and get up to speed with huge, alien codebases in a short amount of time.
The Move to GitHub
At Made we’ve used GitHub for years for all of our public and open source projects. That has always been free, and the experience has always been great. We have been hosting our private repositories with another service for a really long time. However, the user experience, speed and feature set of GitHub that we get with our public repositories has finally led us to make the jump, and to migrate all of our repositories across to GitHub with a paid plan.
Challenges in Contracting Agile Software Projects
As a business that exclusively delivers software using agile methodologies, one of the most common challenges we face is contracting projects.
Made Named as UK Market Leaders in Ruby on Rails Development
We’re very excited and proud to announce that we have been named as a leading provider in Clutch.co’s list of Top Ruby on Rails Development Firms, and that we’re the only company in the UK to have been given that accolade!
Spree Custom Gateway
Spree makes it easy to take payments from any Payment Service Provider, and in this post I will briefly walk you through the process of creating and using your own custom gateway.
Enhancing Customer Experience With Email Schemas
Delivering a great end to end customer experience doesn’t just stop when your customers complete their checkout process. Every communication you have with them thereafter matters. Anything that can be done to make their continued interactions with your brand better is something worth implementing.
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