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How we created our own frontend framework: MarsMan (and why)

As our company grows, so do our projects and clients, and not all of them can be developed with out-of-the-box solutions. Thus, we created a bespoke frontend framework for ourselves.

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EuRuKo

Five reasons why you should attend next year's EuRuKo

We're huge fans of the EuRuKo, and we think you should be one, too.

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Email

Curating the best newsletter for startups and entrepreneurs: Startup Digest

For over a year, no one was in charge of Startup Digest in Barcelona. Here's why we decided to stand up to the challenge.

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Buildings

What is the best Ruby on Rails CMS?

We have compared the most popular CMS built with Ruby on Rails according to user experience, flexibility to develop on top of them and other Martian criteria.

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Ruby

Five reasons why our clients love Ruby on Rails for their apps

Contrary to popular belief, developing your project using Ruby on Rails won't make it more difficult to maintain. It's a competitive advantage, nowadays.

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Dirt bikes

Four things we do to reduce the time to market of your app

There are many ways to reduce the time to market of your project. Here's what we do at MarsBased.

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Mobile phone

How to create a fast, secure, and SEO-oriented landing page for free

Learn how to create landing pages that are secure, fast and SEO-oriented for free with Jekyll & Middleman

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Code

How we upgraded an obsolete Ruby on Rails application with lots of legacy code (part 1)

This post is the first one of a series where we break down how to correctly upgrade a Ruby on Rails application.

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Road

We don't need a CEO (lessons learnt in two years running a development consultancy)

Read about what we have learnt in our second year operating as a development consultancy.

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Writing

If you're not writing, you're losing sales: here's the why and how of blogging for business

If you're running a company and you're not blogging, you're doing it wrong.

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Guiding light

The MarsBased SEO guidelines

We work a lot with web applications, and we need to apply SEO everywhere. Here's what we do.

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Rocket launch

A new website and four things you should know about MarsBased

We launched a new website to communicate our internal changes. Learn more about MarsBased!

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