Today I Learned...

We are looking to hire a Content Marketer to tell our story to the world.  The ideal Content Marketer will be a self-starter who is comfortable moving fast, and unafraid to try new content strategies and tactics to growth hack our outreach efforts. They can uncover and convey a story line through blogs in short and long format, will […]

As an Apprentice Product Developer at TRIM, I’ve had the amazing opportunity of working and learning alongside an exceptional team of developers, designers, and strategists. I’m nearing the end of my apprenticeship, and wanted to share a TIL I encountered while working with Angular and TypeScript. Having previous experience in Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript, working […]

There is a unique sense of anxiety around building an app for a one-night event; as days grow closer, we watch with anticipation as participants sign up to validate an idea…much later than the typical feedback loop for other products. But last month, we were particularly excited to witness just how many people around the […]

Do you love apps and startups? We need someone to research and validate ideas to solve product design and growth problems. A strategist at T R I M might be described as this: Comfortable moving fast, unafraid to try new marketing strategies and tactics to grow or validate an idea, a creative individual who uses data to […]

I’ve had a major issue with Angular 2/Webpack for the past few months. I store all my development files in Dropbox as a second layer of backup and an issue came up that would make me bounce the server every time I changed a file. Not cool. The office joke is “it’s Tmux’s fault” and […]

With the goal of increasing diversity in the South Florida innovation ecosystem, we have committed to hiring apprentice developers through Knight Foundation scholarships. A group of familiar South Florida tech leaders are taking action to make tech careers more accessible to everyone through the “Future Leaders of Tech Scholarship Program,” as announced this week by the Knight Foundation. The […]

Trim Agency is seeking an iOS developer to join their startup studio. The ideal candidate will not only love to code, but love to see companies grow from zero to launch, and scale companies from one to n. The Trim product mobile stack for iOS is Swift (or Objective C) / Rails API / Postgress […]

There comes a time when we might need to write some unit tests for a module. To do this, we can just extend some class and test the methods on that class. Here is an example using Rspec’s subject class; extending it with SomeProject::MyHelpers to unit test a method called :helpfulness.

Building Rails forms is a pretty straightforward process but, once in a while, I run into a ‘gotcha’ that needs a simple solution. This week I was building a form where, if the user selects a particular subset of radio buttons, a text field is shown and the user is required to enter a string.  The […]

When we build a Phoenix application with $ mix phoenix.new my_app, our application module name is set to MyApp. This module name, as well as the snake case version, is referenced everywhere, making it very cumbersome if you need to ever rename the application. Here is a shell script I wrote the does the job […]