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Taming the Beast

Taming the Beast

Pragmatic, Proactive Debt Management at Procore R&D Tim Doherty is Staff Software Engineer at Procore Technologies, where he’s tirelessly championing TDD and sustainable development. He also runs the Santa Barbara JavaScript Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/sbjavascript/] and speaks at technical conferences. Background I’ve been building

Navigating the Tech World

Navigating the Tech World

I recently had the opportunity to be a part of a panel with six other inspiring women at the Women in Computer Science “Navigating the Tech World” meet-up at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an alumni of the school, this was a great opportunity to give back as

Hackathon by the Sea - Girls Edition

Hackathon by the Sea - Girls Edition

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=dHGiB6oqD0U] Procore recently helped host and run Hackathon by the Sea for girls in the Santa Barbara community--an event hosted for young women who are interested in exploring computer engineering and learning more about the technology industry. Below are a few

Procore Code Corps is Inspiring Girls to Code

Procore Code Corps is Inspiring Girls to Code

What do you get when you teach others what you love to do, and have the support and encouragement of your company to do it? Fulfillment. That’s what several of us experienced this summer while teaching girls the basics of coding at the Girls, Inc. of Carpinteria’s Eureka!

Operational Excellence - One Way Optimism is Constructed at Procore

Operational Development

Operational Excellence - One Way Optimism is Constructed at Procore

Heidi Helfand is Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies. She is also the author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, the Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams and is an international keynote speaker in the software industry. Heidi recently lead the Operational Excellence event for Procore's R&

How to Handle Growth Through Dynamic Reteaming

How to Handle Growth Through Dynamic Reteaming

Teams are dynamic, especially at fast-growing software companies like Procore. When you hire new people, your teams change. It’s inevitable - so you might as well get good at dynamic reteaming in order to make hiring new employees more seamless. I work in R&D to help teams

Introducing Blueprinter

A new way to format and serialize APIs. Blueprinter [https://github.com/procore/blueprinter] is a declarative and fast Ruby object to JSON serializer, an alternative to solutions like Active Model Serializers [https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers]. Why build another serializer? When we began writing Blueprinter, existing options

Twisted Tales

Making Redux Saga scalable with TDD, SOLID principles and the Narrator Design Pattern There and Back Again... Asynchronous code is hard. Talking to a server is one of the most critical parts of a modern web application, and being able to write tests around this communication layer is imperative. The

Procore Sponsors and Attends the Grace Hopper Conference

Procore Sponsors and Attends the Grace Hopper Conference

Last week, Procore sponsored the Grace Hopper Conference and gave developers from Research and Development the opportunity to attend. Twenty-five of them decided to go and promote Women in Construction [https://www.procore.com/wic/], Women in Engineering, and Diversity & Inclusion. The Grace Hopper Conference is the world'

Transforming Data Into Insight

Transforming Data Into Insight

This article was originally published on Procore's corporate blog [http://hq.procore.com/]. Construction is changing. While paper and pencils may seem pervasive in the industry, their days are numbered as new forms of technology make capturing, reporting and managing information much easier. But evolution brings a new

Improving Essential Workflows in a Legacy Code Base

Improving Essential Workflows in a Legacy Code Base

Procore provides a suite of project management tools for teams collaborating to build large-scale construction projects. The tools allow our customers to share access to critical items like documents, scheduling systems, and data. We offer a native iOS app for our customers to access their documents from iPhones and iPads.

Our Road to Rising Up: Procore attends Women Who Code

Our Road to Rising Up: Procore attends Women Who Code

Women Who Code Connect 2017, recently held its 2nd annual conference at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Women Who Code [https://www.womenwhocode.com/about] is an international non-profit committed to inspiring women to succeed in tech careers. The nonprofit has chapters all over the world dedicated to supporting

Migrating Databases with Rails at Scale

Migrating Databases with Rails at Scale

At Procore, PostgreSQL is our workhorse. The nature of our product - a very large suite of enterprise business management tools for the construction industry - requires a fully normalized relational database with over 600 tables, and we keep adding more. Our traffic peaks predictably every weekday morning as an

Join Us for a Post-RailsConf 2017 Wrap-Up Event

Join Us for a Post-RailsConf 2017 Wrap-Up Event

Procore had the privilege of sponsoring the RailsConf 2017 [https://railsconf.com/] event that took place last month in Phoenix, AZ. At the event, we had the opportunity to speak and collaborate with a handful of thought leaders and influencers in this space. Some of whose names you may recognize:

An Intro to Git and Its States

When I first started working in git I found myself frequently asking the following: > Why does it seem like whenever I want to remove something in git, I do it wrong? This is a common feeling. Git has many states that can be subtle and confusing. This post will

Managing Dependencies with 6 Easy Questions

Nothing is free; everything comes with a cost. As developers, many might not acknowledge it, but we are always making trade-offs. With every new line of code we write, we are compromising the integrity of the system. The changes we make affect the complexity, stability, performance, flexibility, and cost to

Get To Know Procore Engineering

Procore Engineering is working on products our clients in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry use to build hospitals, sports stadiums, schools, apartment buildings, and skyscrapers more efficiently, with improved communication and collaboration. I’ve had the pleasure of leading our Engineering team since 2008. My perspective is one

We’re Expanding Our Engineering Team to San Diego

Over the past few years, Procore has experienced a burst of growth that has brought us to more than 2,000 clients and well over 1,250,000 users. Our engineering team has been expanding to keep up with the pace of innovation that we aim for in order to

Procore Plays Host to the Local Ruby on Rails Community

Procore Plays Host to the Local Ruby on Rails Community If you’ve never been to Santa Barbara, prepare to be overwhelmed by natural beauty unmatched in the continental United States. More than just a natural wonderland, this sun-drenched strip of California coast is home to a small but thriving

Evolution of Software Applications

If you develop software long enough, you notice patterns. One pattern that isn’t talked about enough is how systems evolve over time. The software industry is so focused on the flavor of the week that we lose perspective. Most of what is “invented” today was created decades ago. Most

Roda vs. Sinatra For Small Projects

I’m a hacker. I like to build things and get stuff done. Also, I care about efficiency and performance. Even though I use Rails all day long, it feels like too much for my own personal projects. When I’m hacking on some code for fun, I don’t