Alfa Jango

About Alfa Jango

See our presentation given at Startup Weekends Our software developers have built over 50 applications over the past 8 years We've built startups that have gone from bootstrapped to acquired and we have open source projects with millions of downloads

Check out our open source projects Branding and graphic design for startups is tricky You need a professional and unique brand that builds credibility and memorability with early adopters However, you don't want to invest a lot early on in a brand from which you may iterate or pivot away We've mastered the art of iterative design

See our design work

GET STARTED BUILDING YOUR STARTUP!

Let us show you in these four steps, and we will be on our way.

Send us a message to set up a phone call In the Ann Arbor or Detroit area? Let's grab a coffee! If we're a good fit, it's on to Step 2! Wherever you are in the startup planning process, we'll creat an outline and budget for building your Minimum Viable Product This MVP will include what we'll build and more importantly what we won't build

We build the MVP It's important to launch an MVP as quickly as possible, so you can start gathering feedback and iterating

Now that the MVP is launched, we can gather feedback from users to expand and refine the product

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TAKE A LOOK BELOW ON HOW WE HAVE HELPED STARUPS IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.

Steve has co-founded several successful software start-ups as managing partner at Alfa Jango Steve co-founded and served as CTO for CarCode, which was acquired by Edmunds com in 2014 He is highly involved in the open source software movement having developed and maintained several popular open source projects, including jquery-ujs and jquery-rails in Rails core, which has been downloaded over 30 million times He has his BS in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering When not building startups, Steve plays guitar and soccer (not at the same time usually) and races cars

Kevin leads all our design from UI/UX Design, Branding, Graphic Design and Illustration After years in the agency world Kevin brings his skills and creativity to Alfa Jango's team He loves to spend time with his kids, floating on the pontoon in the summer and skiing in the winter

Angie came to Alfa Jango in 2013 with experience in real estate, but a passion for start-ups As office manager, she keeps everyone in line, making sure they are where they need to be and have everything they need to be their best She loves fitness and health, cooking, and staying active with her wild mini-dachshund

Jonathan came to Alfa Jango a wide knowledge of Ruby, Javascript and CSS He began his programming career with front-end web design, adding javascript UI enhancements as a specialty before moving to MI Jonathan has a BA from Carleton College and MFA from Rutgers University He taught Sculpture, 3D-design, Ceramics, Drawing, and Digital Arts, and currently teaches Contemporary Art Theory online for Mercer College

John comes to Alfa Jango with experience in team leadership, product development, project management, and business analysis He has worked with everyone from Fortune 10 companies down to small entrepreneurial startups John's passion is people and building amazing applications for his clients When John is not working he loves to spend time with his wife and three daughters and is passionate about long-distance running

Ioannis came to Alfa Jango with experience in CakePHP, Javascript and CSS and specializes in Identity Management techonologies (IAM) Ioannis has a BA and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Thessaly(GR) and an MBA from the University of Patras(GR) When he is not coding he loves training in the gym

Julia built her academic credentials in project management, data analysis, front-end development, and leadership She comes to Alfa Jango with a passion for JavaScript and building accessible UX/UI In her free time Julia enjoys arts and crafts, any type of puzzle, and skiing As a resident of Arizona, most weekends involve hiking, camping, or soaking up the Phoenix sun by a pool!

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We've been quietly building a jQuery plugin over the past couple years to help make tabular data more interactive You might be familiar with existing plugins such as DataTables But after extensive use, we finally made the decision that it wasn't for us

This exploit is similar to the XML vulnerability explained in our last post This exploit, however, is in the JSON parsing of Rails 2 3 x and 3 0 x, due to the fact that the built-in JSON parser in those versions of Rails delegated a lot of its logic to the YAML parser The exploit and official patches were announced here on the official RoR Security mailing list

There's been a lot of commotion lately about the critical vulnerability in Rails (>= Rails 2) And with good reason For technical details, you can see any number of write-ups, including the post on the Rails-core mailing list from Aaron Patterson, this post on Rapid7, and this discussion on Hacker News There are also posts on the EngineYard blog and Heroku blog In this article though, I'd like to 1) boil the issue down to its most basic principle, and 2) outline your options for fixing