Our contributions to the community

Being a woman in tech can be isolating. It can be hard to feel like you belong when you’re often the only woman in the room.

Six months after finishing her apprenticeship, Leigh Passamano reflects on her experience.

General guidelines that anyone can follow to make a meaningful contribution to open source software.

Sarah gives you a heads up about her favorite talks from Strange Loop 2017

Why we're putting down roots deep in the heart of Texas.

Today is our apprentice's first day, but we started the learning process months ago. We discovered some not-so-obvious lessons about the challenges of hiring an apprentice in a professional services setting, and what we're tackling over the next few months.

Dustin talks about his favorite talks from PyCon 2017

I recently spoke at BOBKonf 2017 in Berlin, Germany, on improvements to ClojureScript's hash map data type.

How to have an advantage when landing your first full-time programming job.

Check out the Flatiron School's interview with Mike Nicholaides, CTO and co-founder of PromptWorks.

How to avoid heartbreak when submitting conference talks.

Ray gives us the low down on processes in Erlang/Elixir and how they differ from OS processes, OS threads, and other implementations of green threads.

PromptWorks interviewed Flatiron School fellow Erik Aylward about his experience switching careers, completing a code bootcamp, and job hunting for his first developer position.

Introducing a new Ruby gem for building elegant queries without SQL strings.

Yvonne Chen shares her experience and insight on what it takes to facilitate a good meeting.

Emerging themes in code literacy and teaching.

A look at how a Philly nonprofit is trying to create a new generation of coders.

Brian describes highlights of the 2016 DC Baltimiore Perl Workshop.

A practical discussion on how to use the standard library in ways you might not expect.

You're ready to go with all the best Agile practices...

Upgrading, going beyond the basics, introducing some elegant features and promoting readability.

A well-designed DSL improves programmer productivity and communication with domain experts.

A comparison of factories and fixtures for providing data in Rspec tests in Ruby on Rails

A talk bringing much needed clarity around the different varieties of test doubles including what they are used for and what to call them.

A few techniques for refactoring Ruby code.

A brief introduction to Kanban

How can you know if your Rails app is safe?

You’ve heard the claims or know from experience that test-driven development (TDD) produces better code.

Chef is a great tool for managing a vast and complicated server infrastructure, but what if you have fewer servers than fingers?

Mike Toppa discusses how the internet has affected civic engagement and journalism

Mike Toppa introduces some good habits that will help keep your code clean

In this talk, Mike Toppa will give an overview of Agile practices.

A lightning talk, discussing the challenges of applying the Law of Demeter to Rails programming.