72 articles tagged with 'Development'

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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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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Geometry

How to build CSS grids: floats vs inline blocks

Floats vs inline blocks: two approaches to CSS grids compared. This post breaks down both techniques to help you choose the right grid method for your project.

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Canvas

The MarsBased CSS & HTML guidelines

Find out how we organise in our frontend projects and the tools we use.

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Metal works

Code refactoring: when, why and who

Code refactoring is tempting but not always the right call. This post covers when to refactor, why you should do it, and who should be responsible for it.

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Team

Dealing with your first hire in a distributed team

Hiring for a distributed team is hard. MarsBased shares how we handled our first remote hire — what worked, what didn't, and key lessons learned.

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UFO

The MarsBased team grows bigger: the abduction

Read about how we hired our first employee at MarsBased.

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Aliens

The Martians conquer the IronHack

At MarsBased, we collaborate with dozens of different initiatives. Ironhack is one of those we love the most.

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Ruby

How we make the right app for you (part 2)

A full breakdown of the MarsBased tech stack as of early 2014. Discover the languages, frameworks, and tools we used to build the right apps for our clients.

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How we make the right app for you (part 1)

We're often asked "what do you guys do at MarsBased?" when we're out there promoting our little dev shop. While it might get repetitive after a few hundred times, it gets never tiring: it helps us to perfect the answer. And actually, it's been a good proof that we were not conveying our message clearly enough through our communication channels.

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