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How to Prep for a Rails Internship
August 15, 2014 - When I first found out that I managed to land a Rails internship at Viget, I was incredibly excited: not only was I getting to intern at a great company, I’d even get the chance to learn all I could ever need to know about Ruby on Rails in the gap between my exams and the…
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Use .pluck If You Only Need a Subset of Model Attributes
August 20, 2014 - Despite some exciting advances in the field, like Node, Redis, and Go, a well-structured relational database fronted by a Rails or Sinatra (or Django, etc.) app is still one of the most effective toolsets for building things for the web. In the coming weeks, I’ll be…
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Illumigami - The Hero Conference Rooms Deserve
September 22, 2014 - The Problem Here at the Viget Boulder office we have four conference rooms for shared use between a dozen people (+/- 5 on any given day). Given that we’re a remote office with two other locations to collaborate with, the rooms get a fair amount of scheduled use, as…
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Why We Love Craft CMS
October 17, 2014 - Because it’s awesome. Megan wrote a post last week discussing Craft and WordPress that sparked an internal discussion about the difficulty we’ve encountered selling less popular content management systems—basically, anything other than…
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Life at Viget: Then & Now!
December 31, 2014 - As we wrap up another year at Viget, I’m growing nostalgic and trying to remember all the things (large and small) that distinguish what Viget was like circa 2000 versus what Viget is like today. Although many of our employees have been here for a number of years, I’ve…
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Speed Up Rails By Starting on the Front
January 6, 2015 - Is your Rails website performing poorly? Are clients and users complaining about 5-10 second pageloads, timeouts on mobile devices, or images that take forever to display? In some cases the solution lies on the backend — caching requests, speeding up DB queries, etc…
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WebSockets with Elixir - How to Sync Multiple Clients
January 7, 2015 - Back in November, we bunkered down in rooms across our 3 offices and went to work for a Pointless Weekend. The Boulder and Falls Church teams joined forces to bring Jambells into the world. If you haven’t seen it yet, Jambells is a fun little web app that lets everyone live out…
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15 Conferences to Attend in 2015
January 15, 2015 - Every January, as we look ahead to our professional growth over the coming year, we remind our staff of one of our favorite perks: fully-funded conference attendance. Viget proudly covers the cost for all our staff to attend at least one major conference every year, and we also…
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Application Development
We forge solid foundations for software products. We'll take your product from idea to reality quickly, without sacrificing its future agility. Already have a product? Supplement your existing engineering bandwidth with our team of experienced Ruby and JavaScript experts.
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VOA.org
Since 1896, Volunteers of America has supported and empowered America's most vulnerable groups; each year they serve more than 2 million people in over 400 communities in 46 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Our challenge was to improve the quality and…
