Learning a new programming language is not easy, and learning a new framework on top of that is definitely not easy, unless you have the right resources and mentors. Here at CustomInk they have provided me with an environment that facilitates learning and produces results. This has made my journey of learning ruby on rails substantially easier. On my first day it seemed that the team had planned out my journey very well. I began my introduction to both the...

Going from 0 to 60 miles per hour in ten weeks is impossibly slow for any sports car, but for a summer internship - starting as a novice developer just learning the ropes of CustomInk Tech, to ending the summer developing alongside full-time engineers has been a fast and exciting ride.

Hunter joins CustomInk for the summer as a development intern on the DangerSquad!

Around here, we love our dashboards. They are the modern water cooler gathering spot. Inkers gather around and watch the latest T-Shirt designs and track sales across the country. We built the first dashboard as a spare time experiment, but they quickly grew into an important part of our culture.

As a rising senior at Carnegie Mellon Unviersity, Anthony joins CustomInk Tech for the summer as a development intern in the Tako Stand!

Have you ever wondered how tools like New Relic are able to gain valuable metrics to your Rails application's internals? Or maybe you are interested in learning how to write your own libraries and gems so they can be instrumented using those same techniques? Once again the answer is to look deep into the Rails source code – and the answer is ActiveSupport::Notifications. A simple and powerful instrumentation API for Ruby available in Rails v3.0 and upward.

Michael has joined CustomInk and is a member of the Wildcards Fireteam. He's been focusing on our new text generation service. And will be helping us with a big upgrade on our main Rails project.