Carousel Animations

How we achieved animations on Carousel

Problem — Fast, browser compatible, easily maintainable
Solution — CSS3 Animation Wrapper with Fallback

Automating Mobile Testing With Selenium Using Appium

Over the last decade the most significant change in software testing has been the growth and advancement of automated testing. In the past, web site testing was costly and time-consuming. You had large teams of QA Engineers that hunted…

Optimizing CSS: Selectors

Late last year, I started to use the direct child CSS selector much more frequently in my modular patterns, and naturally became curious if I was causing harm to my users who had to download this code. I began doing research on CSS performance after becoming interested in best…

Hack Day — April 2013

On April 4–5th, the product and engineering teams conducted our third Hack Day event. Similar to events we have held in the past, this was a period of time for members of our product development organization to explore their own ideas to improve Zoosk. To make it interesting, we awarded…

Moving Persistent Notifications from MySql to Cassandra

If you are a Zoosk user, then you have most probably experienced persistent notifications as a badge on the blue header bar. Clicking that badge shows your notifications which comes in three flavors; personal, social, and account…

Working in “Z” Years

The New Year always provides a good time for reflection. One thing that I am often asked by candidates during interviews is some form of the same question about working at Zoosk. Usually, it’s something along the lines of “what makes Zoosk different from other companies you have worked for?”…

Zoosk R&D — The Second Term

After a very successful first session of Zoosk R&D, we soon realized we were on to something and quickly began hiring for our next term. If you’re not familiar with Zoosk R&D, it’s an engineering on-boarding program we started at Zoosk, which brings a team of new hires into the…