Our Thoughts and Stories

It's hard to write when we're always so busy creating for our amazing clients! However, we do find time sometimes to share our thoughts on crafting Rails, iOS and Mac apps out of Knoxville, TN.

What is the Internet of things or IoT? (Part 1)

Mar 07, 2017 | By Chris |

IoT

What is the "Internet of Things" Buzzwords are super popular in tech circles, but keeping track of ...
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What are Standup Meetings?

Mar 02, 2017 | By Chris |

Entrepreneurship

Everyone has been in a meeting or stand-up but here is how to make them better and how to get the ...
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How to Use Sidekiq without Rails

In a recent project, we found ourselves in a situation where it made sense to introduce a ...
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How to use SSH Port Forwarding in Ruby HTTP Library

Feb 23, 2017 | By Matt |

Networking, Linux, Ruby on Rails

Sometimes you need to connect to a restricted server, by tunneling through a server that does have ...
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How to Design a Mobile App

Feb 21, 2017 | By Chris |

Design, UI/UX

User Experience When starting the mobile app (UI/UX) designs make sure you keep the user in mind. ...
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How to Test ActiveJob Callbacks Using Sidekiq

Feb 16, 2017 | By Matt |

Ruby, Ruby on Rails

While I have used Sidekiq for years now, I’m also a big fan of ActiveJob. I still use vanilla ...
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The Design Process

Feb 14, 2017 | By Chris |

Branding, Design, UI/UX

The design process is a little different for each design. No matter what you are designing though ...
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How to Manage Environment Variable in Ruby Subprocess

Feb 09, 2017 | By Matt |

Linux, Ruby on Rails, Programming

I recently worked on a project that caused some puzzlement when spawning subprocesses multiple ...
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Logo Design Basics

Branding “The process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers’ ...
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How We Hired a Web Developer

Feb 06, 2017 | By Matt |

Entrepreneurship

Growing to a point where Lotus could even think of bringing another engineer on the team was an ...
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What the font?

Feb 03, 2017 | By Chris |

Typography, Design

Typography ty·pog·ra·phy noun the style and appearance of printed matter. the art or procedure of ...
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UI/UX Design Overview

Feb 02, 2017 | By Chris |

Design, UI/UX

History User interface design wasn’t always as we would think of it today. It started back in the ...
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How to Manage Ruby Processes at Launch on Linux

Feb 01, 2017 | By Matt |

Ruby, Linux, Raspberry Pi, IoT

For the past several months, we have been working on a software solution to run on embedded devices ...
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Understanding the basics of Branding through Brand Identity Examples

Jan 31, 2017 | By Chris |

Marketing, Branding, Design

When thinking of how to brand your company there is a variety of factors that come into play....
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Hand Crafted Holiday Boxes

Dec 13, 2016 | By Chris |

Marketing

This year at Lotus we wanted to do something really special and unique for our clients. We wanted ...
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