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A couple of weeks ago, a group of us took a trip to Northeast Portland to volunteer for the Oregon Humane Society. Upon arrival, they gave us a quick orientation and went over some safety protocols, but also gave us a great history of the humane society. In case you’re a numbers/facts person, here is […]
We recently hosted a series of Code School sessions within Jama aimed at teaching non-engineers how to program. I worked on two 90-minute classes that taught some of our Sales and Customer Service reps how to interact with the Jama API using Python. By the end of it, they had the skills to automate some […]
I’m excited about this new library I ran into and I would like to share the excitement. It’s called Restito, it’s on GitHub, and I actually found it on a blog from 2012, so… where were you all this time? Restito is a Java library to mock out REST APIs. It’s self-described as the complement […]
Jama rolled out our REST API earlier this year, and we couldn’t wait to see what our customers would do with it. We’ve also had opportunities to work with organizations on good ways to leverage the API, including an exciting and unique engagement with Portland State University (PSU) computer science students in their Capstone Program. We’ve had […]
It’s easy to get lost in work. We end up spending so much of our time on our work, in the building, and with our co-workers, that it really begins to become a part of our actual life. This is why it is so important to also highlight the activities that people do outside of […]
As Jama grew, our Engineering department began to change overnight. Teams were outputting consistent velocities, we had upped our abilities technically on how we measured areas such as performance and quality, we began 8-week planning cycles, we doubled our Engineering team and we had a strong roadmap to follow but for some reason it didn’t […]
On July 8, 2016 the employees, husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends and children of Jama gathered to celebrate another great year at the annual Jama Birthday Party. (Check out the 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th celebrations!) A summer rain pushed us inside, but our soon-to-be-sub-leased 1st floor made the perfect open space for the bouncy house, […]
Chartio is a tool for centralizing, normalizing and visualizing business data. It connects to Salesforce and a variety of databases, and it allows you to upload simple spreadsheets. Its data pipeline has enormous power for transforming the data to get it in just the right form you need. Chartio’s dashboarding capabilities, with layout and drill-down, […]
We use the hashtag #lifeatjama a lot around here. The fact is that we love to celebrate our culture and how we work & play together. It’s not a marketing ploy, it is a reflection of our values and approach, our way of life here at Jama software. A few months ago, the Engineering and […]
Now that all of that left-pad nonsense is behind us, we can get back to focusing on the business of utilizing node modules, or more specifically, how to upgrade our node packages in a safe, verifiable, refactory way (as refactory as Javascript lets us get, anyway). The Problem Recently, I was tasked with bringing our […]