Here in Austin we are big on quality: tacos, code and people. Our team is dedicated to building and enabling other developers to build the most innovative and useful email products on the planet and that is no small task. … Continued ➞
Creating the OIB Style Guide
My name is Andy and I’ll be your Style Guide guide today. As a designer at OIB, I’m interested in new product features because of the opportunity for new design. That means a chance to make the interface more pleasant … Continued ➞
Eric Pinzur is Awesome
We’re happy to welcome our newest and tallest member of our team, Eric Pinzur. Eric has a background in turbo diesel engineering as well as software and looks forward to jumping in to help out the rest of our team … Continued ➞
Introducing Muddle
We recently updated some of our email templates, and we took the opportunity to do some digging into the current state of HTML email best-practices. Writing HTML emails is sort of like going back in time: no semantic markup, limited … Continued ➞
Inbox Love Hacks
Are you going to Inbox Love 2 later this month? We’re going, and and we hope to see you there! We’re sponsoring this conference because we want to encourage innovation in email. That’s also why we want to promote this … Continued ➞
Writing Readable RSpec Examples
For most of our Ruby projects, we use RSpec to write tests. When I started at OtherInbox about 2 years ago, I hadn’t ever seen RSpec and I started out by emulating the examples that existed in our code base. … Continued ➞
Alex Jones is Awesome
We’d like to extend a belated welcome to our relatively new head of Product, Alex Jones. Alex has worked at a variety of Austin startups over the last 15 years, helping to build agencies and product companies, while following a … Continued ➞
Andrew Harrison is Awesome
We’re welcoming Andrew Harrison to the OtherInbox team, previously a member of a big data team at our parent company, Return Path. Andrew will be joining us to help us deal with our big data both here in sunny Austin, … Continued ➞
We’re Going to LSRC!
Every year, Austin hosts the Lone Star Ruby Conference. Naturally, because it’s our home-town conference, we like to go. If you, too, are going, come say hi to us. We’d love to talk about Ruby, make a dinner recommendation or … Continued ➞
Brad Ison is Awesome
We’re happy to welcome our very own Bison to the OIB team. Brad joins us as a highly accomplished DevOps Engineer and will help us tame our herds of servers and systems. His angry face intimidates even the most stubborn … Continued ➞