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A collection of technical posts written by the Aha! engineering team.

2018-04-18

How to Build a Collaborative Text Editor Using Rails

It is a painful realization. You just added a beautiful, multi-page description into your bug tracker's text editor, complete with photos…

2017-09-07

Aha! is a Rails monolith. Although we have embraced front end technologies, such as webpack and React, Rails is the glue that holds…

2017-06-06

Drop everything. This is what our team does when a bug is found. Recently, a customer reported an issue in a new feature that had just gone…

2017-02-28

I love fast food. It started as a teenager when I worked at McDonald’s in New Zealand. There were only a few locations back then and we were…

2017-01-31

I still remember the chaos of my first job. A new team with new challenges. Facing critical work decisions for the first time. But there was…

2017-01-06

When I first learned to program, I did not have a computer. I wrote everything out on paper and just imagined what would happen when it ran…

2016-07-07

Most product managers develop a close working relationship with their engineering team over time. Although sometimes a little quiet, they're…

2016-06-29

Product managers need to be able to connect with the engineering team. But some product managers — and people in general — often feel…

2015-10-14

My college algorithms class was the final weed-out course in the computer science program. It covered advanced topics like computational…

2015-08-25

Depending on who you ask, the is a quintessential cornerstone of web development old and new; an outmoded curiosity from a time where CSS…