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Apr 01 2019

Our Greatest Investment Opportunity


InRhythm’s success is built on the excellence of every employee, and the outstanding work they do every day continues to drive us to greater heights. While we look to hire the very best consultants at the outset, every employee is on their own career journey, and one of the cornerstones of our company culture is investing in the careers and lives of our people to help them be happier, healthier, and more proficient in their fields. Investing in this development has, for me, provided an enormous return in the form of profitability, productivity, and the overall wellness of our employees.

Personal Zen

InRhythmers already enjoy a company reimbursement for the music streaming service of their choice; music is a core part of the day for many of us, and it just made sense to keep everyone happy with their favorite personal playlists, unburdened by ads. Not everyone listens to music when they work, however, so this year we’re expanding the program to include audiobook services like Audible and wellness and meditation apps like Headspace, so each of our employees can define their own idea of work zen with our enthusiastic support.

Empowering our employees to find their focus and de-stress increases confidence and performance. Meditation, in particular, offers a number of benefits, including increased immune function and lowered anxiety, that pay huge dividends in and out of the office. We can’t always predict the future in this fast-moving industry, and no consultancy is immune from stressful days, but by giving InRhythmers the tools they need to stay grounded and happy, they can tackle the biggest problems and opportunities ahead of us.

A Better Future

We hire engineers and designers at all skill levels to work on some of the biggest industry-shaping projects, but each and every one of our consultants is ambitious and dedicated to growing their expertise. Our culture of learning and growth is designed to take every InRhythmer to the next level, whatever that might look like for them. InRhythmU, our suite of internal and client-facing training and development workshops, speaker series, and resources is a comprehensive platform for our people to learn from (and teach!) each other, sharing their mastery of everything from cutting-edge programming languages to soft skills like leadership, personal branding, and public speaking.

We also provide a coaching program that pairs our senior-level consultants with several mentees, each with their own specific goals for the year. Our coaches work individually with their mentees and consult with other coaches on guiding every InRhythmer toward goals they’ve self-identified. The result? Our people are working on everything from personal financial literacy to Chrome extension development, with our coaches and the entire culture of InRhythm as the wind at their back.

When you hire for the very best, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who are naturally ambitious and hungry to learn. In practice, however, I see a huge deficit in the education provided by a lot of companies in our industry; while it’s fine for your employees to seek learning elsewhere, it’s also a huge missed opportunity to engage with your people and personally invest in their success. By providing these resources on-site at InRhythm headquarters and empowering our people to not only come to us to learn but also to teach each other, a richer culture is born.

P.S. We also encourage our speakers to open up their learning and growth events, where appropriate, to the general public. Whether you’re a current InRhythmer, looking to join the team, or just interested in the field, I encourage you to join our InRhythmU Meetup group to get the latest updates and RSVP info for upcoming events:

Design Sprints with Joe Cahill
April 24th | 5 pm | RSVP

Compassionate Coding with Brian Olore
May 16th | 5 pm | RSVP

GraphQL with Denny Temple
June 20th | 5 pm | RSVP

Advanced Design Patterns with Will Bratches
July 18th | 5 pm | RSVP

React Native with James Woods
August 15th | 5 pm | RSVP

We’ve got a lot of different events, owing to the wide-ranging interests of our consultants, so if there’s something that interests you, I look forward to seeing you at an InRhythmU event soon.

Thanks and Keep Growing,
Gunjan

Written by Gunjan Doshi · Categorized: InRhythm News, InRhythmU, Learning and Development · Tagged: best practices, community, growth, investing in employees, learning and growth, Meetup, meetups, software engineering, tutorial

Apr 19 2016

April Meetup Video – Building Light Deployment Free JSON API’s with Dropwizard

 

This month we took a walk through Dropwizard city with out very own Luke Lappin. He is a senior enterprise architect with us who also happens to be an incredible guitar player.

As always, we have full video of the entire talk for you. We hope to provide you with a great step into Dropwizard.

Luke starts off by giving a quick background into Java and explaining that Dropwizard was created to be the glue between all these established Java packages. With this framework you can easily create REST and JSON services in the fastest way possible. Cool stuff!

Enterprise Java can be frustrating but it doesn’t need to be. Luke takes us through all the meat and potatoes of Dropwizard ingredient by ingredient. Tell us what you think in the comments.

Missed out on our April Meetup? Make sure to join our Meetup group and never miss out again! Follow us on Twitter for exclusive Meetup updates. We announce all topics and speakers on there first! Hope to see you next month.

Written by inrhythmAdmin · Categorized: Software Engineering · Tagged: Java, Meetup, Programming, software engineering, tutorial, video

Mar 17 2016

March Meetup Video – Converting a Project from ES5 to ES2015

For our March Meetup we all gathered at IRHQ with Glenn Hinks to discuss switching a project over from ES5 to ES2015. Glenn has been writing software since 1981 and is a full time node developer working at a live video sports streaming startup. We are excited to have exclusive full video footage for you right here!

In this video you will learn how to begin the process of switching your own projects, why it’s beneficial to do so, recommended tools to use, how to get started, and even what pain points you might meet along the way.

Loved this video? Check out the rest of our Meetup talks on our YouTube channel and come to our next event.

Written by inrhythmAdmin · Categorized: Events, Software Engineering · Tagged: JavaScript, Meetup, tutorial, video

Feb 22 2016

February Meetup Roundup – Reactive Layout for User Interfaces

Let’s take a moment to think about how we interact with interfaces. I am willing to bet that about half of you think “point and click” while the other half considers “point and move”. At our most recent Meetup, David Valdman covered the topic of Reactive Layout for User Interfaces.

Sounds cool, but what does that mean? David started by giving us a little background on the difference between Object Oriented Programming and Reactive Programming. Let’s start with a question:

If a tree falls in a forest but no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Has it even fallen?

We didn’t have any philosophy members to really help us dive into this conundrum. However, this is a great metaphor for Object Oriented and Functional programming. Still confused? It’s all revealed in the video above, including a more in-depth explanation of what the relationship is between reactive programming, layouts, and animation. David also dives into the JavaScript library, Samsara.js, which he recently published for animating layout.“It provides a language for positioning, orienting and sizing DOM elements and coordinating the animation of these properties over time. To do so, it borrows from the principles of reactive programming (samsarajs.org).

The talk was fascinating and we have full video coverage above for you to enjoy. We are excited to move into this new “point and move” territory together with you.

Written by inrhythmAdmin · Categorized: Events, Software Engineering · Tagged: JavaScript, Meetup, reactive programming, tutorial, video

Jan 25 2016

January Meetup – PostCSS with Nathan Stilwell

We are very excited to share video from our most recent Meetup where Nathan Stilwell provided an informative rundown of PostCSS and its features. Will you be using PostCSS on your next project?

Nathan started off by giving us a little history lesson in CSS and preprocessors which is necessary in order to fully understand why PostCSS is so awesome. When Sass and Less first came out, they were revolutionary as they enabled us to use CSS in a better way with things like variables, inheritance, mixins, importing, and nesting. But, on the flip side, our stylesheet became bulky and heavy. Preprocessors are huge monoliths…so, what if we wanted something smaller and more direct? What if we want to extend Sass? Enter PostCSS. At the most basic level, PostCSS is letting us work with our source code freely. And the true beauty of PostCSS lies within all of the plugins which allow us to do things like use the latest CSS features (which aren’t supported in preprocessors) to provide fallbacks for IE7, check colors, and so much more.

Have questions? We will be publishing a second video of our Q&A which occured after the presentation so stay tuned for details on the best features of PostCSS, limitations, similarities to different frameworks, the specifics of plugins and more!

Written by Ricki Steiner

Written by inrhythmAdmin · Categorized: Events, Software Engineering · Tagged: Meetup, postcss, tutorial, video

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