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Causes Tech: Building a new Ruby test framework

Contributing today in Causes Tech is Grant Mathews, our superstar summer intern. In just a few months Grant has wowed us with two tech talks, given us some do’s and “NEVER DO”s for speeding up your code, and now he’s built an open source distributed test framework for Ruby. Contributing to the open source community ...

Causes Tech: A recommendation engine that could

This week in Causes Tech we hear from software engineer, Adam Derewecki. As his team bio suggests, Adam is an adventurer with tales of exploration and intrigue from across the globe. Today he regales us with the creation story of the new Causes recommendation feature, the Suggestomatic. May I suggest the Suggestomatic? For better or ...

Causes Tech: Finally, a usable Redis mock!

This week in Causes Tech, engineer and brewmaster Sam Merritt talks about mock_redis, an open-source tool built here at Causes. For the code, check out the Causes github. For the opportunity to write the code, join our team! We here at Causes are pretty big fans of Redis. We use it to track the results ...

Including Causes in custom Facebook page tabs

A couple weeks ago, we announced our custom Facebook page tab (are you using it? Tell us!), but I wanted to share a few examples of people including Causes in custom Facebook page tabs. Of course, our tab is awesome if you want to fundraise for a U.S. registered 501(c)3 but you may have an ...

How have you used Causes to create an impact in your community?

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