The Threads of Tradesy

7 Lessons Learned From Managing Engineers

There are a lot of lessons I have learned about managing engineers while at Tradesy. I…

How to Setup a CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) Server

Challenge yourself to configure the environment manually.

How to Setup a Production Jenkins Server

Let’s walk through setting up Jenkins, plugins, and packages that would be beneficial for a LAMP stack.

Death to the Modals.

Or, how stable always wins.

Continuing in our updates to mobile web traffic for Tradesy.com, along with our navigation updates, we killed modals* for mobile visitors. Again, as many web sites often do, we used (& still do) modals a lot. Like A LOT…

Death to the Hamburger.

Or, how obvious always wins.

Everyone knows that mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic; especially when it comes to eCommerce. In 2015, Tradesy.com’s traffic experienced the same pivotal moment in April. Our current website was built…