#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

#TechTuesday: Using the Whenever Gem in Your Rails App

A wonderful little gem that allows you to schedule your tasks in plain old Ruby and updates your crontab automatically on a Capistrano deploy. By Kathy Heffern (Software Developer, Giant Hat) This post originally appeared on the Giant Hat blog. There comes a point in...

#TechTuesday: Build a Color Palette in Your Rails App

Follow this step-by-step guide and add colors you’ve only dreamed of. By Kathy Heffern (Software Developer, Giant Hat) This post originally appeared on the Giant Hat blog. So you decided you want to add some color to your rails app. “Hold on,” you...

5 Things to Consider Before Learning to Code

Teaching yourself to code is basically the new black, but don’t jump into the project before considering these basic questions.  By Jennifer McFadenn (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) You can’t go to a cocktail party or tech event in any major city right now...

One Founder’s Journey from Idea to Product to… Pregnant?

A female founder explains how she taught herself to code, built her company and handled finding out she was pregnant all at the same time. By Samantha Quist (Founder & CEO, Copywriter Central) I first found out a few months ago, just as I was preparing to launch...