--- title: "Year in review 2015" description: "Activities of the BigBinary Team in 2015." canonical_url: "https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/year-in-review-2015" markdown_url: "https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/year-in-review-2015.md" --- # Year in review 2015 Activities of the BigBinary Team in 2015. - Author: Vipul - Published: January 4, 2016 - Categories: Misc Year 2015 was an exciting year for BigBinary ! We added more [clients](https://bigbinary.com/clients). We increased [our team](https://bigbinary.com/team) size. We wrote more [blogs](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog), spoke at more [conferences](https://bigbinary.com/presentations), and made even [more videos](https://bigbinary.com/videos) ! Here is the breakdown. ## We love conferences We presented at 10 conferences across 7 countries, on topics from [Rails](http://rubyonrails.org/) to [ReactJS](https://facebook.github.io/react/). - [Garden City RubyConf, India](http://www.gardencityruby.org/) - [RubyConf, Philippines](http://rubyconf.ph/) - [RubyConf, India](http://rubyconfindia.org/) - [Reddot RubyConf, Singapore](http://www.reddotrubyconf.com/) - [Deccan RubyConf, India](http://www.deccanrubyconf.org/) - [Full Stack Fest, Spain](http://2015.fullstackfest.com/) - [RubyConf, Taiwan](http://2015.rubyconf.tw/) - [Rocky Mountain Ruby, Colorado](http://rockymtnruby.com/) - [RubyConf, Colombia](http://www.rubyconf.co/) ## We are all in ReactJS We at BigBinary adopted ReactJS pretty early. Early in the year we published series of videos titled [Learn ReactJS in steps](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-reactjs-in-steps) which takes a "Hello World" app into a full TODO application using ReactJS in incremental steps. Vipul and Prathamesh are currently authoring a book on ReactJS. Check it out at [ReactJS by Example- Building Modern Web Applications with React Book](https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/reactjs-example-building-modern-web-applications-react) We also started an ios app using React Native. It's coming along pretty good and soon we should see it in app store. ## We authored many blogs We love sharing our experiences via blogs on various topics like ReactJS, Rails, React Native and Robot framework etc. Here are some of our blogs from 2015. - [How to obtain current time from a different timezone in Selenium IDE using javascript](how-to-obtain-current-time-from-a-different-timezone-in-selenium-ide-using-javascript), Prabhakar, Jan 2015 - [Author information in jekyll blog](author-information-in-jekyll-blog), Neeraj, Jan 2015 - [Phone verification using SMS via Twilio](phone-verification-using-twilio), Santosh, Jan 2015 - [Blue border around JWPLAYER video](blue-border-around-jwplayer-video), Prathamesh, Feb 2015 - [Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails](gotcha-with-after_commit-callback-in-rails), Prathamesh, March 2015 - [Voice based phone verification using twilio](voice-based-phone-verification-using-twilio), Santosh, March 2015 - [Verifying PubSub Services from Rails using Redis](verifying-pubsub-services-from-rails-redis), Vipul, May 2015 - [Using ReactJS with Rails Action Cable](using-reactjs-with-rails-actioncable), Vipul, July 2015 - [How to test React Native App on a real iPhone](how-to-test-react-native-app-on-real-iphone), Chirag, Aug 2015 - [Optimize JavaScript code using BabelJS](code-optimize-javascript-code-using-babeljs), Prathamesh, Aug 2015 - [Configuring Pycharm IDE to run a Robot Framework test suite or a single test script](configuring-pycharm-to-run-tests), Prabhakar, Oct 2015 - [Migrating rails app from postgresql to sql server](migrating-from-postgresql-to-sqlserver), Rohit, Oct 2015 - [Getting around Apple iTunesConnect account activation issue](getting-around-apple-ituneconnect-activation-issue), Prathamesh, Oct 2015 - [Rails 5 allows setting custom HTTP Headers for assets](rails-5-allows-setting-custom-http-headers-for-assets), Vipul, Oct 2015 - [Using Stripe API in React Native with fetch](using-stripe-api-in-react-native-with-fetch), Chirag, Nov 2015 - [How constant lookup and resolution works in Ruby on Rails](how-constant-lookup-happens-in-rails), Mohit, Nov 2015 - [Explicitly ssh into vagrant machine](explicitly-ssh-into-vagrant-machine), Neeraj, Dec 2015 - [ApplicationRecord in Rails 5](application-record-in-rails-5), Prathamesh, Dec 2015 ## Video Summary - [Learn Ruby on Rails](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-ruby-on-rails) - [Use uuid, X-Request-Id and tagged logging to debug rails application](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-ruby-on-rails/use-uuid-x-request-id-and-tagged-logging-to-debug-rails-application). - [Rails development using vagrant](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-ruby-on-rails/rails-development-using-vagrant). - [Using ES6 in Rails application](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-ruby-on-rails/using-es6-in-rails-application). - [Learn ReactJS in step](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-reactjs-in-steps) - [Keep up with ReactJS](https://bigbinary.com/videos/keep-up-with-reactjs) - [Learn JavaScript](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-javascript) - [Refactor JavaScript code using module pattern](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-javascript/refactor-javascript-code-using-module-pattern) - [A review of tools to test ES6](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-javascript/a-review-of-tools-to-test-es6) - [Learn Selenium](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-selenium) ## Open Source Apart from our team members contributing to various OpenSource projects, we also support some projects from our team. This year, we added and helped build following projects- - [Wheel](https://github.com/bigbinary/wheel) : Wheel is our Rails template for new Ruby on Rails projects, with sane defaults and setups for different environments, and common functionalities like image uploaders, debugging, etc. - [Mail Interceptor](https://github.com/bigbinary/mail_interceptor) : Interception, Forwarding emails in Ruby on Rails application - [Handy](https://github.com/bigbinary/handy) : A collection handy tools and Rails tasks for your Project. - [Learn ReactJS in Steps](https://github.com/bigbinary/learn-reactjs-in-steps) : Collection of examples from [Learn ReactJS in step](https://bigbinary.com/videos/learn-reactjs-in-steps) video series. - Doctsplit Chef(Link is not available) : Check cookbox for [docsplit](https://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/) ruby gem - Fixtures Dumper(Link is not available) : Dump your Rails data to fixtures easily to a database to populate data. ## Community Engagement Along with speaking at various conferences, we also helped organize, our Fun edition of Pune's regional RubyConf, [DeccanRubyConf](http://www.deccanrubyconf.org/), and supported other Indian Conferences, including [RubyConfIndia](http://rubyconfindia.org/), [GardenCity RubyConf](http://www.gardencityruby.org/). We also help Pune's local [ruby meetup](http://www.meetup.com/punerailsmeetup/), which had a splendid engagement this year. Overall we are super excited about what we accomplished in year 2015. We are looking forward to an exciting year of 2016! ## Links - [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/year-in-review-2015)