Zumbatech takes on #hackforchange by Chris Saylor on June 15, 2015 On June 6, 2015, a team of engineers from Zumbatech decided to contribute in an all-day hackathon event called Hackforchange. This is a national effort for civic hacking that brings engineers and designers together to make a positive impact in our communities.

W3C Push API Crash Course by Nick Comer on May 29, 2015 W3C’s Push API is exciting. Almost as exciting as all the possibilities that arise from having a persistent presence in your users’ browser. At Zumba, we already have ideas for it, and I was in charge of doing the gritty work of getting notifications to show up in the browser, but also developing a way to manage who gets those notifications. I had a lot of questions along the way that I will lay out and give you straight answers. Let’s get pushing already!

Relational Database Design by Justin Oakley on May 22, 2015 Schema design is something that is very important to any application where data is to be stored and retrieved. It is also a topic that is often debated, controversial and discarded as something simple to be done during development. However, Proper planning BEFORE development is done will help save a lot of time down the road.

How We Do CSS at Zumba by Kaue Ribeiro on March 31, 2015 As you may or may not know Zumba’s website consists of a robust app that includes a fully custom ecommerce shop that supports international transactions, class and training search and registration, Zumba Instructor Network (ZIN) admin portal and many other apps. Our in-house tech department is responsible for managing the interactive products, developing, testing and deploying the projects.