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Chameleon | Fullstack Engineer (Ruby) | Remote before it was cool | $120k - $180k | Full-time | https://chameleon.io Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built b…

Chameleon | Frontend Engineer (React) + Fullstack Engineer (Ruby) | Remote before it was cool | $120k - $180k | Full-time | https://chameleon.io Remember those modals, tooltips and…

i can only see the screenshot for "Example 1"

How you do you solve for, or imagine solving for the hiding of potentially important UI without running to risk users not finding what they are looking for and not realizing it is …

yes and now it looks like you need a product tour

Chameleon | Frontend Engineer (React) | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never rea…

Chameleon | Full Stack Rails Engineer + React | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but n…

Netflix would have not become Netflix if Blockbuster had purchased them. This notion of a missed opportunity is flawed

Client side JS is Backbone + HTMLbars Node.js Rails AWS Lambda MongoDB & Postgres We have some interesting requirements that we must conform to in order to be part of our customer'…

We've all built and [not] maintained product tours, now its time to pass the torch to our business compatriots. Chameleon enables them to show off the product without developers as…

the magic is here: https://github.com/bnorton/tap_if/blob/master/lib/tap_if.rb

Instead of assigning a variable or bloating the length of your statements, use this method to to return the caller and only execute the block if the condition passes. User.where(:e…

multiple file uploads. :)

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/involver/ind...

This is good information, but could you explain why you think that everyone should use caching? You don't mention testing in this article so is it safe to say that you don't? Do yo…

what is paper?

http://blog.involver.com/2012/01/26/testing-backbone-js-best...

This is the point I was getting at. Not that this style is bad or good (I think it is good) but that these aren't tests that span modules. It is common practice (and a good one) to…

How about the people that don't like or dont have time for said hackfests, how else would one meet someone like this? I feel that hackfests/days are not really all that enjoyable b…

It still seems more like unit tests.. For example this line states that if you are given 20 records that 20 make it into the view. expect(view.$('.persons li').length).toEqual(20);…