My team at Grokability has been fully distributed since I started the company five years ago. Some of us are local, some of us are halfway across the country, and some even in other countries. All of us work from home all the time. While you’d think we’d be just fine dealing with the self-isolation and social-distancing we’re all (hopefully) practicing during the COVID-19 pandemic, this is…...
We’re thrilled to have been invited to be a speaker at Laracon Online, with over 4,000 attendees and over 100 countries represented. My talk was on some of the challenges you face when 1) running an open source project 2) running an open source product on Laravel and 3) running a business off of your open source product that runs on Laravel. I should make it very clear here –...
Just a quickie update on what we’ve gotten done so far in the upcoming v5 (currently on the develop branch). Lots of stuff is changed under the hood, as we’ve upgraded the underlying framework to Laravel 5.7, but there are a bunch of bufixes and new features, as well as some UI improvements. One of the bigger changes to the system is the introduction of Flysystem support, which means...
We build software at Grokability, but more importantly, we build Grokstars! What’s a Grokstar, you ask? Simple – it’s someone who is awesome, and who fundamentally understands how the web works. Because we hire along a wide spectrum of tech folks, from code camp newbies to wisened veterans, we wanted to put together a curriculum of concepts and tutorials that will help break...
This is just a quick update on where we’re at with v5 of Snipe-IT. We’re currently 37% complete with our milestone tasks and getting closer every day. That leaves us with just 22 open issues until a release is in sight! Our current tentative milestone goal is September 15, which is just under a month away! IMPORTANT: This version of Snipe-IT requires PHP 7.1.3 or...