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My New Company, Clubhouse. Over the last 15 years I've been privileged to work. Scaling Communication at a Growing Startup. When you're first starting a company, communication is the least. Building a Data Science Team at a Startup - An Engineering Perspective. A few random observations from spending the last few years. I was playing around with Cascalog today, working on rewriting. I'm always meaning to do more blogging, but I always. At Intent Media we've been using Cucumber for 2.5 years to. Omnifocus...
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - Moving to Jekyll
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December 16, 2011. I'm always meaning to do more blogging, but I always seem to have a million reasons that I never do. One of the things that I've always disliked was dealing with all of the overhead. I don't want to log in and type things in a Javascript window, etc. I just want to blog. For that reason I've moved my blog to Jekyll. Jekyll is a highly customizable static site generator that's used to generate most of the pages on Github.
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - My New Company, Clubhouse
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January 04, 2015. My New Company, Clubhouse. Over the last 15 years I've been privileged to work with some of the greatest engineers in our industry to build software and teams. These teams have always been greater than the sum of their parts, and I owe everyone that I've ever worked with a debt of gratitude for that. And I started Clubhouse to help companies build better software teams. I'll have a lot more to say about what we're building over the next few months, but I'm personally very excited about ...
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - Living In A Post Rails World
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February 14, 2009. Living In A Post Rails World. The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. -Goethe. It's been about 6 or 7 months since I've done any Rails work. I'm in a post-Rails world. After working in Rails for 3 years, I was burnt out. I took some time off to try to learn the finer points of marketing and running a business, and then attempted to start a new business just before the market cratered. Not a great idea. Something is different though. I think that the Ruby world is eve...
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - Scaling Communication at a Growing Startup
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October 21, 2013. Scaling Communication at a Growing Startup. When you're first starting a company, communication is the least of your worries. If you have less than 10 or so people, everyone knows what everyone else is doing (and if they don't then they can just walk over and ask them). Things start to get a little more complicated after that. This is a dark time, characterized by two things:. Github is a great example of a tool that solves the communication problem around software projects. I don't...
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - So I Wake Up and Merb is Rails?
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December 23, 2008. So I Wake Up and Merb is Rails? If you haven't already heard, Rails is now Merb. And Merb is now Rails. I'm a bit torn about how to feel about this, having dedicated a lot of time lately telling people to use Merb and why I think that it's superior to Rails. On the one hand, it'll be good for Merb usage, as people using Rails 3 in big projects will now essentially be using what Merb 2 would have been. Certainly should be an exciting couple of months as this merge happens.
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - Building a Data Science Team at a Startup - An Engineering Perspective
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January 30, 2012. Building a Data Science Team at a Startup - An Engineering Perspective. A few random observations from spending the last few years building a data science team at a startup, from the perspective of an engineering manager:. You have no idea what your data science team is going to do. You're just going to know that you have some data and some problems, and that you don't really know how to solve them. Of course, that leads into:. Data scientists tend to come from a number of different bac...
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - About
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Hi, I'm Kurt Schrader. I'm the Co-Founder/CEO at Clubhouse. A company that I founded with Andrew Childs. To help people build better software companies.
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Kurt Schrader's Blog - Large-Scale Cucumber Revisited
http://kurt.karmalab.org/2011/07/28/large-scale-cucumber-revisited
July 28, 2011. At Intent Media we've been using Cucumber. For 25 years to drive a large portion of our testing (on top of RSpec and JUnit). We're finally getting around to upgrading to the newest version (from version 0.4.4, which is, to put it lightly, a bit rusty), so I'm going to throw out some anecdotes about our experiences using it, which will hopefully help others avoid some of the problems we've had. First a few facts about our test suite:. Yes Implemented in a couple of days with no problems?