About us
We are all designers who to develop and developers who design, mostly weighed in favor of the former.
Bobby
Founder/Rails Developer/Designer
Bobby Santiago is the founder of Percolait. An electrical engineering graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he had a brief stopover in advertising, then discovered Ruby on Rails and found the vehicle to implement his ideas. He has been a graphic artist, copywriter, creative director, and is now a full-time Rails developer and designer.
NOTE: As we expand in the coming months, we promise to put up professionally-photographed portraits of us in various poses that say "cheerful" and "positive!", but for now you will have to deal with the suspense. Plus, we need time to really get on that fitness groove.
Our open-source tools
- Ruby on Rails - the open-source web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
- HAML / SASS - HAML is for generating clean, semantic markup and SASS spits out concise, readable CSS.
- Git / Github - Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Github is our host of choice for source code management.
- JQuery - jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
- Moonshine / Capistrano - Moonshine is an open-source configuration management and deployment system that leverages the power of Capistrano, simplifying server configuration, dependency management, and Rails application deployment.
- MySQL - Our relational database management system of choice.
- Apache / Passenger - Apache is the most popular web server on the Internet, and Passenger allows easy and robust deployments of Ruby in Rails apps on Apache.