In March, we opened our doors to Jacksonville area businesses, including...
Hashrocket’s Open House
In March, we opened our doors to Jacksonville area businesses, including the Jacksonville Beach Chamber of Commerce, to come and help us celebrate the official “Grand Opening” of our business.
We put together a short video of the event, and asked a few people their impressions.
Workbeast Goes Live
We recently launched the Workbeast site. Our client, Tom Ryan, was so thrilled with the website that he gathered the Rocketeers to publicly thank them, and announce the launch. We had a total of 13 developers and designers work on the website over the course of 8 months, including the client's developer,...
Find out what it takes to become a Rocketeer
In this week's “Ask a Rocketeer” Obie Fernandez answers @fredlee's question about the hiring process at Hashrocket. Obie explains what he is looking for in a candidate, walks us through a typical Hashrocket interview and lets you know the steps you need to take if you want to become a Rocketeer.
In this week’s “Ask a...
Obie Named to “40 Under 40” List
Obie was recently named to Jacksonville Business Journal's prestigious "40 Under 40" list of upcoming businesspeople in the community.
Obie was recently named to Jacksonville Business Journal’s prestigious “40 Under 40” list of upcoming businesspeople in the community. The readers of this blog and fans of Hashrocket are probably familiar with his...
Coffee Talk
We take our coffee seriously.Coffee, mud, java or joe. It doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s about the taste and the aroma. Here at Hashrocket we are serious about our caffeine. From the kind of beans we use to the aroma and to the way i...
Ask a Rocketeer
Watch the first video in our new series: "Ask a Rocketeer." Every week, we answer a question that you tweet @hashrocket. This week, we answer a testing question from @andypike. Thanks, Andy!
Watch the first video in our new series: “Ask a Rocketeer.” Every week, we answer a question that you tweet @hashrocket. This week, we...
Screen Our Latest Videos
Being the resident videographer at Hashrocket, I have the opportunity to film a wide variety of events and daily happenings both in and out of the office. Some are educational, some client oriented, and some are just for a laugh. I invite you to explore the Hashrocket way firsthand through my video and watch what...
Screen Printed Poster Series
Part of my job here at Hashrocket is to not only provide design support on projects, but to introduce design into the culture. While my day-to-day mostly focuses on the web and related fields of design, I can't help but find ways to try and design things that aren't normal for a web development firm.
Part...
News From Hashrocket
Obie our CEO and guru has been honored with the Jacksonville Business Journal's: 40 Top Executives Under 40.Obie our CEO and guru has been honored with the Jacksonville Business Journal’s: 40 Top Executives Under 40. If they had an award for cool...
Smack a Ho.st
Tired of having no choice but to add aliases for localhost to /etc/hosts every time you work on a site that uses subdomains? Me too. That’s why I grabbed smackaho.st and made it a localhost wildcard, pointing *.smackaho.st at 127.0.0.1. If you’re a Rails developer, try visiting http://dontmakeme.smackaho.st:3000/.
Episode IV: A New Pope
I’ve moved my blog to Jekyll. I think this is the post where I’m supposed to apologize for falling off the blog wagon and promise to post more in the future, though truth be told I have few regrets and make no promises. My aged Drupal install had gotten to the point where I felt...
Ensure With Explicit Return
Quick! What does the following method do when thing.method_that_might_raise! raises SomeAppException? And why is this a code smell?
1 def some_method 2 thing.method_that_might_raise! 3 ensure 4 return thing 5 end
Before giving the answers to these two questions,...
