Monthly Archives: September 2010

Introducing the OPOWER Engineering Dashboard

As Tom mentioned, we recently conducted our first company-wide Innovation Day. Everyone split into groups of 3-4 and worked on whatever they wanted (as long as it was related to the company). Everyone did cool stuff. One group made a prototype of a website where you can enter your zip code, info about your home, [...]

Picking up your Mac OS environment in RubyMine

Many of us are using RubyMine on MacOS to build our Cucumber based tests, and have had issues with picking up environment variables needed for working with some of our other internal utilities. Turns out that this is because applications launched from anywhere other than the command line don’t run through the same environment initialization [...]