This short series of blogposts answers the “why”, “how” and “when” of code refactoring.

The very real danger with commenting code is that it becomes outdated while the codebase rapidly evolves. And out of date comments are far worse than no comments. So what's the alternative?

From Rails to Marionette.js in a few simple steps.

If you are a coder trying to adhere to the style of your colleagues’ code, or if you occasionally find yourself overlooking an obvious syntactic error, Rubocop —a static code analysis tool—is here to help.

After reaching the point where your product has grown to a large scale application, you probably start to ask yourself - why the hell do are all my tests executions so long?!

The goal is to make the project better, faster, and more secure through bulletproof code.

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A few simple practices you can apply that will take your software towards the goal of bulletproof-security.

Getting started with Ruby? Great, we’ve just put together a number of online resources for beginners!

You’re about to see the beauty and ease of writing an engine application in Rails!

As it turns, out it’s a little bit like software developing in Rails itself. You start with a powerful set of tools to help you right away.

The transition from Java to Ruby wasn’t the easiest thing in my life, and at first I had many doubts about what I was seeing.

I’d like to share my thoughts about what’s different (the good and the not-so-good) in SPA’s and why as a web developer, you should care about it. Of course, YMMV, so I encourage you to share your opinions in the comments!

I am a Rails developer at Netguru, and every now and then, I get interested in other languages or frameworks that we can use to build web apps. Just recently, I experimented with node & express, but now I’d like to try some Python (and Django) and walk you through the process of what I experience as a Rails developer learning Django.

A little while ago, the service that Netguru used to host DNS for our domains (Zerigo) suffered from a severe DNS attack that managed...

I’ve used Rails now for about three and a half years, two of which have been as a developer at Netguru. But before Netguru, I was a PHP developer for 5 years in various companies. I had been trying my strength in C, C++, Java, and other languages, but I couldn’t find one that fit me. It was a hard decision to switch to a different language and start all over again from scratch, but looking back on it now, I can say it was worth it.

One of the most important questions asked by a new web developer is….what the hell this is this “staging” thing ?! The answer is simple.

Preprocessors such as Sass are widely used in our RoR world and make writing CSS much easier and clutter free. Most Rails developers are aware of advantages such as nesting, reference selector,, variables, mixins or extending directives. But Sass is much more than that!

Despite its popularity, backbone.js has many drawbacks. With a steep learning curve, shortage of opinionated patterns, lots of boilerplate code, and poor memory management/cleanup strategies, backbone usage can be discouraging. In this article, I will focus on how to refactor a backbone application using marionette.js —a framework that can mitigate many of backbone’s shortcomings.

Hipbot came to life at one of Netguru’s famous hackathons, where all devs come together and write something cool in a couple of hours.