2016-01-04

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!

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