Ryan Oglesby

Originally posted in late 2015 or early 2016 as an internal blog post. It tells the story of introducing and later abandoning a strategy for…

What does it mean to be a member of a “software development team?” Is the team a single collective, or a collection of individuals? When…

When we create web applications we use style sheets to describe presentation, and we use JavaScript to manage all the bits of state and…

It’s no secret that we are currently experiencing a Cambrian explosion of innovation by the JavaScript community. But what you may not be…

I’ve noticed some confusion in how Single Page Applications are served among developers who are new to these apps. This post is a short…

Builders seems to be a popular topic for me, as I’ve blogged about the builder pattern before . This time, however, I look at builders…

Dev 1 : “Wait, how did it do that?” Dev 2 : “I have not clue, it’s Spring * magic.” Dev 1 : “Oh well, as long as it just works…

Updated 2017-02-12 : Added a strategy for loading configuration at initial page load, using an “env.js” file. Recently, I needed to inject…

Styling React components seems to be one of those things where there are a lot of solutions ( libraries ) emerging that try to solve the…

Continuous Integration Build Pipelines are a dirty, nasty place. What usually starts out as a couple of simple tasks or bash scripts…

We ended Part II with an inner Builder for , which forced us to revert to specifying seemingly arbitrary values in each test that needed…

In Part I , we created a separate Builder class in an attempt to move away from a constructor with too many parameters. In the process, the…

Over the past few months on my project, a pattern emerged for using Builders and Object Mothers to build-up objects for unit testing. We…

You Ain’t Gonna Need It is an XP practice that encourages developers to focus on the requirements at hand right now. It warns against the…

Recently, my team embarked on a strategy/experiment designed to distribute the effort of driving features from inception through completion…

Only once have I worked on a project that did not interact directly with a relational database. (Awww, those were the days) In every other…

A few months ago I helped to plan and execute a Hackathon for my project team. Though it was not the first team Hackathon I have…

I have been doing quite a bit of AngularJS performance tweaking on my latest project. It is no secret that Angular performance can quickly…

Dropping Rubocop into an existing codebase We (my team) recently introduced rubocop to a Rails app and a Sinatra app to encourage (aka…

Recently, my team was tasked with figuring out how to introduce what we chose to call “Apprentice Developers” into the team in order to help…

JavaScript Web Workers have been around for awhile now, but I had not needed them until recently. Without going into too much domain…

I had the privilege of attending Goto;con 2014 in Chicago. It was smaller than I anticipated, spread over just a few conference rooms in a…

I’ve been pretty heads down in a ThoughtWorks project for the better part of 2013 and have unfortunately neglected this blog. But 2014 is…

Skipping the Basics… Anyone wanting to develop a truly internationalized application needs to address translating the text of the app into…

Hashie and Rspec - The Problem: Hashie is a neat little Ruby gem that extends Hash and gives object-like access and functionality to hashes…