Year 2015 was an exciting year for BigBinary !
We added more clients.
We increased our team size.
We wrote more blogs, spoke at more conferences, and made even more videos !
Here is the breakdown.
We love conferences
We presented at 10 conferences across 7 countries, on topics from
Rails to ReactJS.
Garden City RubyConf, India
RubyConf, Philippines
RubyConf, India
Reddot RubyConf, Singapore
JQuery Conference, India
Deccan RubyConf, India
Full Stack Fest, Spain
RubyConf, Taiwan
Rocky Mountain Ruby, Colorado
RubyConf, Colombia
We are all in ReactJS
We at BigBinary adopted ReactJS pretty early. Early in the year we
published series of videos titled Learn ReactJS in steps
which takes a “Hello World” app into a full TODO application using
ReactJS in incremental steps.
Vipul
and
Prathamesh
are currently authoring a book on ReactJS.
Check it out at
ReactJS by Example- Building Modern Web Applications with React Book
We also started an ios app using React Native. It’s coming along pretty
good and soon we should see it in app store.
We authored many blogs
We love sharing our experiences via blog posts on various topics like React, Rails, to Itunes, React-Native, etc.
Here are some of our blog posts from 2015.
How to obtain current time from a different timezone in Selenium IDE using
javascript, Prabhakar, Jan 2015
Author information in jekyll blog, Neeraj, Jan 2015
Phone verification using SMS via Twilio, Santosh, Jan 2015
Blue border around JWPLAYER video, Prathamesh, Feb 2015
Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails, Prathamesh, March 2015
Voice based phone verification using twilio, Santosh, March 2015
Verifying PubSub Services from Rails using Redis, Vipul, May 2015
Using ReactJS with Rails Action Cable, Vipul, July 2015
How to test React Native App on a real iPhone, Chirag, Aug 2015
Optimize JavaScript code using BabelJS, Prathamesh, Aug 2015
Configuring Pycharm IDE to run a Robot Framework test suite or a single test
script, Prabhakar, Oct 2015
Migrating rails app from postgresql to sql server, Rohit, Oct 2015
Getting around Apple iTunesConnect account activation issue, Prathamesh, Oct 2015
Rails 5 allows setting custom HTTP Headers for assets, Vipul, Oct 2015
Using Stripe API in React Native with fetch, Chirag, Nov 2015
How constant lookup and resolution works in Ruby on Rails, Mohit, Nov 2015
Explicitly ssh into vagrant machine, Neeraj, Dec 2015
ApplicationRecord in Rails 5, Prathamesh, Dec 2015
Video Summary
Learn Ruby on Rails
Use uuid, X-Request-Id and tagged logging to debug rails application.
Rails development using vagrant.
Using ES6 in Rails application.
Learn ReactJS in step
Keep up with ReactJS
Learn JavaScript
Refactor JavaScript code using module pattern
A review of tools to test ES6
Learn Selenimum
Open Source
Apart from our team members contributing to various OpenSource projects, we also support some projects from our team.
This year, we added and helped build following projects-
Wheel - Wheel is our Rails template for new Ruby on Rails projects, with sane defaults and setups for different environments, and common functionalities like image uploaders, debugging, etc.
Mail Interceptor- Interception, Forwarding emails in Ruby on Rails application
Handy - A collection handy tools and Rails tasks for your Project.
Learn ReactJS in Steps - Collection of examples from Learn ReactJS in step video series.
DoceboRuby - Ruby wrapper for Decobo LMS API
Doctsplit Chef- Check cookbox for docsplit ruby gem
Fixtures Dumper - Dump your Rails data to fixtures easily to a database to populate data.
Community Engagement
Along with speaking at various conferences, we also helped organize, our Fun edition of Pune’s regional RubyConf,
DeccanRubyConf,
and supported other Indian Conferences,
including RubyConfIndia, GardenCity RubyConf.
We also help Pune’s local ruby meetup, which had a splendid engagement this year.
Overall we are super excited about what we accomplished in year 2015.
We are looking forward to an exciting year of 2016!