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Unlocking the potential of subscriptions in Europe: Strategies for success
The subscription e-commerce model is taking Europe by storm. Consumers are eagerly embracing the convenience, value, and personalization of recurring deliveries for everything from meal kits to beauty products. As a merchant, this presents a massive opportunity to build predictable revenue streams and forge deep customer relationships.
Seamless integration: Transforming customer experience with unified commerce
With a unified commerce strategy, merchants can transcend omnichannel limitations, resulting in personalized customer journeys, optimized order fulfillment, and flexible payment and delivery options.
Embracing Digital Transformation With As-A-Service Models
Digitalization has changed not only technology but the way we do business nowadays. Learn how the trend for businesses has been moving in the direction of as-a-service models.
Deploy early and often
At Firmhouse we love small pull requests, they help with getting your code reviewed quicker but also with feeling less anxiety when you deploy your code.
Making PR reviewing work across projects
A crucial part of our development process at Firmhouse is that we review each other’s code and leave comments via Pull Requests...
A case for the distributed internet
At the beginning of March 2017, Amazon Web Services had an outage. This time it was a failure in their S3 file storage service in...
Filtering Facebook search spiders/bots and other automated requests (FB_IAB)
TL;DR: Filter out requests with user agents that include the keyword "FB_IAB" to track who visits your page from Facebook Ads.
Automate office presence with Raspberry Pi
We at Firmhouse are a Remote company, but we do have an office in Rotterdam. Since there are a couple of tasks that need to happen...
DeviceToken and turbolinks-ios
Ruby on Rails 5, Turbolinks and Turbolinks iOS are fantastic frameworks to build hybrid native apps. We've already built a few...
How our Rails 5 app served more than a million people in 2,5 weeks
In the last 2,5 weeks, our little side-project ispokemongoavailableyet.com served:2.785.168 pageviews1.170.496 unique visitors...
Tab Bar native-hybrid app with Xcode storyboards and Turbolinks 5
It's the most promising change to Ruby on Rails I've been waiting for: the ability to create hybrid-native mobile apps...
Integrate Brakeman in your workflow
A while ago I wrote an article about integrating Rubocop into your workflow. Now that we are checking for code style, it is time to improve the workflow...
Controlling HTML5 audio/video tags on mobile Safari
For a side-project (http://lekkerluisteren.nl) I am using HTML5 audio tags and controlling them via JavaScript. The side project is a simple...