Our Latest Blogs

A React App Done Right

React is all the rage right now. And since Smashing Boxes is always all the rage, we decided that we should start using React. It all began in Smashing Labs, our weekly innovation time, when a few developers started making small apps using React.

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Be a Tech All-Star with Smashing Boxes and the New Orleans Pelicans

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve teamed up with the New Orleans Pelicans for a community event we’re calling “Smashing Boxes Tech All-Stars”. Kids from New Orleans area schools are invited to to tell us what their dream app would be!

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Essential Research Skills for Engineers

Modern software development requires a ton of research.

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Meet Maestro - Turn Spotify into a Workspace Jukebox Through Slack Integration

An actionable solution to the age-old question, that 980 million Google results have not quite answered: how to play music at work.

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Clojure: A Reflection On My Latest Obsession

Every Friday, we at Smashing Boxes take four hours out of the day to play and explore our own personal interests and, for the past few months, I’ve been interested in Clojure.

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Uh-Oh...We have a Bug: A Guide to QA

At a simple level, “quality assurance” means “the activity of checking goods or services to make sure that they are good” says Merriam-Webster.

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The Scrap Exchange: A Customer Experience Audit

What if every business could see their services through the eyes of their customer?

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2015 In Review

Smashing Boxes is driven by a set of principles that have shaped our business from day one.

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