4 Tricks to Going Real-Time for Tech-Ops

This is the last in a three part series on delivering a Real-Time experience to your web app. In previous posts, I have covered council for software architects and developers. In this post, I present four tips for your technical operations team.

CSS Management

On any large web application, CSS can quickly become unmanageable. The main issues we’ve faced are load time, overwhelming scope, and cruft (the old stuff we don’t use). Here at Zoosk, we are managing CSS in several different ways, lest it manage us.

CSS Packages

4 Tricks to Going Real-Time for Software Architects

In the past few months, we have added Real-Time Communication features to the Zoosk.com web site. These have included presence, notifications (toasts) and instant messaging. This is the first in a three part series on adding Real-Time…

The Zoosk Difference — a developer’s perspective

Much has been written about how management-enforced process kills developer morale and output. I completely agree, based on my personal experience.

What is “quality” and how do we make it?

My name’s Doug Wehmeier, and I’m the lead engineer for mobile development here at Zoosk. I write technical articles about mobile development on my own blog from time to time, so here on our team blog I decided I want to focus more on the cultural aspects of…

4 Tricks to Going Real-Time for Developers

This is the second in a three part series on going Real-Time. The first part gave advise to software architects. These four tips summarize our lessons learned during this integration effort from a developer’s perspective.

Consequences of an Open OS, Part 1

A great deal has already been written debating the pros and cons of Apple’s “closed” iOS on one hand and Google’s “open” Android OS on the other. While I do have a strong opinion about which is “better” I will try to withhold those opinions for this piece. My intention…