Spark Tank: Pitching Project Ideas
This month at Sparkbox, our production team hosted an internal “Pitch Day,” a fun team building activity designed to kickstart this year’s internal efforts for learning together.
Building in the Open
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Rendering Markdown in Contentful Rich Text
As we are migrating The Foundry’s CMS to Contentful, it doesn’t come without challenges to ensure that we are able to have all the styles currently used. Learn how we are balancing different solutions to do just that like rendering markdown in the rich text editor.
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Building an MVP Slack App with the Forecast API
While keeping an MVP mindset, a team of Sparkbox developers built a Slack app that interfaces with the Forecast API in a few weeks. Once the basic requirements were met, beta testing allowed our team to make needed adjustments and better technical decisions.
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Let Your Feature Flag Fly
Looking to gradually deploy features? Then you need to decouple deployment and code activation with feature flags.
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Rebuilding The Foundry
We’ve been doing some behind-the-scenes work on The Foundry. Learn more about the exciting changes coming your way, and follow along as we rebuild in the public.
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Sassy Grayscale
Catherine shares how harkening back to art school resulted in the perfect solution to an in-house code refactor.
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Case Study: Redesigning CodePen
It’s a chance to find new ways to solve problems better. It’s a chance to share our process. It’s a chance to build a better playground for inspiration, education, and sharing. Sparkbox is redesigning CodePen, and you get to watch us every step of the way.
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Building Your Own Web Development Co. Site: That Way Lies Madness
We’re sticking to our new year’s resolution. The new Sparkbox site is finally here!
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Sparkbox Foundry Design
We wanted to kick our site rebuild in the butt. So we decided to go out on a limb, more fully embrace iterative process, and try building the site literally one page at a time. Jeremy talks about our new approach and new design for the Foundry.
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Our New Build Process
Almost all of our projects have an element of HTML/CSS/JS templating. The pursuit of a better project starting point is never-ending, and we feel we’ve taken a big step forward during the Sparkbox web rebuild.
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Want to talk about how we can work together?
Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development