The frontend engineers at Monetate spend a lot of time modifying clients’ sites using Javascript. Those modifications might be as simple as inserting a banner at the top of a page, or they might be…
Monetate backend developer Jason Stelzer hacked together a little application that allows you to receive Growl notifications of Drinkify.org recommendations, based on an iTunes playlist. (Written, he says, one Sunday morning over mimosas.)
Monetate frontend developer Elise Wei has created a Javascript bookmarklet that allows you to turn any webpage into your own poetic canvas. Drag the bookmarklet into your bookmarks toolbar, navigate to your favorite site, and when you activate the bookmarklet, all of the words on the page will be transformed into movable magnets.
In 2006, Netflix announced the Netflix Prize, a $1 million award for improving the accuracy of the company’s Cinematch movie-recommendation algorithm. Four years later, a team called BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos developed an algorithm that was…
This post is part of Monetate’s (Work) Week of Wow. Each workday this week (Monday through Friday), our Engineering Blog will present a wow-worthy project by our software engineers. A number of Monetate’s engineers, particularly…
Frontend engineer Mike Hand and I attended the inaugural Node.Philly meetup last night at the University City Science Center, presented as part of Philly Tech Week. It was a great event at an impressive venue.…
Codeswarm is an organic software visualization of project repositories. Below is a version I created for Monetate’s code, which starts from the first commit and goes to the point when we reached 15,000 commits. Each dot represents an individual commit, and the color code corresponds to the different sections of the codebase.
Frontend engineer Mike Hand likes to pair-program with applicants, helping them concoct wild “DOM doodles,” in which colorful objects pop in and out of the page, fluttering, pulsing, orbiting, and swiveling. Today we’re publishing two of them — both written by interviewees who made the cut and are now Monetate software engineers.
We recently invited local politicians to Monetate to speak about engineering, hiring, and job growth. The first to visit was Steve Welch, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, who held a press conference at our…
Monetate’s software engineers use Git for version control, and up until very recently, we had been using it in combination with Subversion, aka SVN. Basically, our central, authoritative repository was kept in SVN, and we…
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