Founder. Engineer and entrepreneur. Husband and father. Writes in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, and Swift. he/him
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June 03, 2022
I’m excited to announce that Meks McClure , NewAperio junior developer, was recently featured on the Elixir Wizards podcast. The theme of the podcast was Elixir in polyglot environments. Meks spoke about our work in Elixir and how our full-stack…
Company, Press
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
March 08, 2022
The Big Elixir is returning to New Orleans this year, March 24–25, and we couldn’t be more excited. This is a great conference we’ve enjoyed every year. In fact, we’ve sponsored it in both 2018 and 2019 and I gave a talk at the very first one…
Company, Elixir
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 18, 2022
Basic Fitness, one of our clients, was recently on the Out to Lunch radio show talking about their startup and forthcoming app. It was a great opportunity for them to talk about their business. I would know, having been on the show myself back in…
Business, Company, Clients, Press
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
December 29, 2021
Every year around the holidays we send out a custom coffee mug and a bag of delicious beans as a gift. We send it to our clients in appreciation of their business, our team in appreciation of their hard work, and our friends in appreciation of their…
Company, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
July 07, 2021
In our client work, we typically eschew "password confirmation" fields. These days confirmation fields serve little purpose and are mostly just an annoyance to the user . With easy password reset flows, it's trivial for a user to self-service reset…
Alpinejs, Javascript
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
June 23, 2021
We're thrilled to see that Basic Fitness, one of our product design sprint clients, came away with top honors at the recent NexusLA Ignition Demo Day . Basic Fitness is building a platform to track and analyze health, wellness, and fitness data…
Business, Company, Clients, Press
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
June 22, 2021
We’re pleased to announce that Meks McClure has joined NewAperio as a junior developer! Meks joins us from pastoral Rice, Minnesota — and thus is our first rural hire. They’ve been on board for about a month now and have been hard at work learning…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
April 14, 2021
This is a guest post by Dan Davis , a product manager who works with us and recently conducted remote user interviews for a client project. He was gracious enough to write up what the experience was like and some of our lessons learned. Thanks, Dan…
Design Sprints, Lessons Learned
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
April 12, 2021
We’re pleased to announce that Glynnis Ritchie has joined NewAperio as a senior designer! If you've worked with NewAperio over the last few years, you'll no doubt be familiar with Glynnis and her work: she's been contributing to the design of our…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
April 07, 2021
We’re pleased to announce that Nikki Kyllonen has joined NewAperio as a junior developer! Nikki marks our first new hire since transitioning to a fully remote team and joins us from the Bay Area. She’s been on board for about 2 months now and has…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
January 08, 2021
Every year around the holidays we send out gifts to our clients and friends to show appreciation for their support. We like to send out custom coffee mugs and beans. We’re huge coffee lovers at NewAperio so it’s nice to share our joy. Even if you don…
Company, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
December 30, 2020
In January of this year, NewAperio achieved a signifcant milestone: 10 years in business. I had planned on holding a big birthday bash, inviting employees, clients, and friends to celebrate this milestone and the part each of them played in getting…
Company, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
December 15, 2020
If you had asked me at the end of 2019 if I thought we’d be terminating our lease a year later, I’d have said “no way”. I love our office. It’s a vibrant, welcoming space that we put a lot of intention into designing. Plus, we’ve had an office…
Company, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
August 07, 2020
Phoenix LiveView is a great library for building real-time, reactive apps that are rendered server-side. We've used it in both large-scale, complex apps and simpler admin dashboards in order to build rich user experiences without the overhead of…
Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
July 29, 2020
Design sprints have become crucial to our workflow when kicking off projects with new clients. They have become especially fundamental for our work with clients where we’re building a product that has never been released. The reason for this is two…
Design Sprints, Lessons Learned
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
May 06, 2020
I’m pleased to announce a new Elixir library called AssertIdentity . It’s a small helper library for ExUnit that provides assertions useful for comparing data structures by identity. AssertIdentity really shines in applications that leverage Ecto…
Elixir, Open Source, Programming
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
April 07, 2020
Connected Care is a new mobile app that lets you keep track of a loved one's care and well-being. It was originally conceived by Dr. Jim Rhorer to help keep track of his elderly mother who is aging-in-place and share updates across his large…
Business, Company, Press
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
March 17, 2020
As the world is dealing with the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, I sent the following to our clients about our preparations. Our team is already remote and we have a liberal work-from-home policy. That means we’re already set up to work…
Business, Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 04, 2020
Earlier this week Iowa held the first primary in the 2020 US presidential election. What was supposed to be an organized process that reported results within a few hours ended with trickling reports of delays caused by mysterious ”coding issues” in…
App Development, Best Practices, Business, Lessons Learned, Mobile Development
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 18, 2019
As fall rolls in, people take time to revel in the joys it brings: pumpkin-flavored everything, brisker breezes (we hope), and - for developers like ourselves - The Big Elixir . This two-day NOLA conference allows the NewAperio team to hone our…
Baton Rouge, NOLA, New Orleans, Elixir, The Big Elixir, development, coding, developers, mobile app development, web app, backend development, frontend development
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
December 28, 2018
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of delivering a talk at The Big Elixir 2018, a brand new Elixir conference just down the road in New Orleans. It was a great conference and I enjoyed seeing old friends as well as making some new ones, while…
Company, Elixir, Talks
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 25, 2018
Elixir has been the theme of 2018 for us at NewAperio as we focus more of our time working in the language. Throughout 2017 we invested a lot of our 20% time in educating ourselves on the language, building internal projects, and contributing back…
Company, Community, Elixir
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 23, 2018
We're happy to announce that, just over two months ago, Nick Scheurich joined NewAperio in our Baton Rouge office as a senior developer. Nick has been a friend of ours for a while and we couldn't be more excited that he decided to join the team. He…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 18, 2018
The Big Elixir is a new Elixir conference put on by some of our friends in New Orleans, just down the road from our Baton Rouge HQ. We've made a lot of investment in Elixir lately at NewAperio, and indeed many of our new projects are written…
Company, Elixir, Talks
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
September 01, 2018
We've been really excited to be a part of the Elixir community for a while. In 2018 we're increasing our involvement and investment in Elixir and many of our greenfield consulting projects are now written in our favorite functional language. The…
Company, Elixir
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
March 14, 2018
After way too long, we have finally kicked Cobbler's Kid Syndrome. As a consultancy, we spend almost all of our working hours plying our craft in service to our wonderful clients. That leaves very little time to work for ourselves. Thus, Cobbler's…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 26, 2018
Activate is a new yearly tech conference in Baton Rouge that is organized by the local tech community. We were fortunate enough to be involved last year for its inaugural event as sponsors and attendees. This year, I decided to kick it up a notch by…
Talks, Elixir
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
November 14, 2017
Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week is just around the corner. It's bigger and better this year, taking place over three days — November 14–16 — in downtown Baton Rouge. I'm really excited to see how the event is evolving and am looking forward to the…
Entrepreneurship, Business, Design Sprints, Talks
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 31, 2016
After the successful launch of LSU's Code It Up challenge , LSU asked us to work on another version to run again for a new group of prospective students. The lead engineer on the project, our very own Cody Rogers, recently sat down with LSU's CSE…
Clients, Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 22, 2016
Recently we announced the launch of LSU's Code It Up challenge , a unique coding game we built in collaboration with LSU to reach prospective computer science students. The lead engineer on that project, our very own Jonathan Hooper, recently…
Clients, Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
January 11, 2016
We're excited to announce the launch of LSU Computer Science's Code It Up Challenge. The Code It Up Challenge is a unique game designed for prospective LSU computer science students. It takes participants through multiple levels of coding and hacking…
Company, Clients, Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
March 14, 2012
While I wasn't born in Baton Rouge, I've spent nearly my entire life here. I consider myself a Baton Rouge native, and I love this city. I want nothing more than to see it transcend into a cultural hub where technology, the arts, and people coalesce…
Community
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 14, 2012
The issue of whether to build a mobile-optimized web site versus a truly native mobile app is a widely contested issue. From conference seminars, to popular blog posts, to internal debate amongst our team, this is one of the most crucial debates of…
Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 09, 2012
The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report featured me in their latest print issue in the Entrepreneur Section. It's a great article talking about our founding story, where we are today and where we're going in the future. If you're interested in how we…
Company, Founder
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
February 06, 2012
Today we're pleased to announce the launch of Heartwaves.org, a social hub for parents with children suffering from a congenital heart defect. Heartwaves is the dream of founder Jared Broussard, a Baton Rouge native who has a son with a congenital…
Company, Clients, Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 18, 2011
I was honored to be invited back to LSMSA, the high school that Evan and I (and a majority of our team) graduated from, to speak. I talked about my college and career path and also some mistakes I've made and lessons I've learned. The talk is titled…
Community, Talks
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 06, 2011
I remember the first time I came in contact with a device Steve invented, imagined, dreamed. I was nine years old. My father had just brought home one of the new bondi blue iMacs. "Where's the rest of it," I said inquisitively. At this point in my…
Community, iOS
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
October 04, 2011
We have a Rails app that essentially acts as an API for an iOS app. It provides JSON endpoints to pull some resources. The iOS app only reads data, so the only verb used is GET. There are dedicated controllers just for the API actions — the admin…
Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
September 27, 2011
I was recently at lunch showing off a project to one of our clients. I don't often think about internet access before I go anywhere — these days I just assume I'll always have internet. Unfortunately, however, this particular restaurant didn't have…
Ruby / Rails
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
September 27, 2011
One of the axioms of our mission statement is to be charitable. This community has done so much for us — it's given us a home, fostered our growth, and provides a platform for expansion — so we want to do what little we can to help give back. The…
Company, Clients, iOS
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
August 10, 2011
Being Awesome, One Build at a Time from NewAperio on Vimeo . We were invited to speak at LSU CCT's iOS Bootcamp. Hear our talk on our company, the development process, and how to be awesome.
Company, Talks, iOS
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
August 09, 2011
On Monday we welcomed our first class of interns. I'd like to take a moment to publicly welcome to the team — we're really excited they're here with us! Beth Findley: Beth is a sophomore at MIT studying computer science. Cade Thomasson: Cade is a…
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
July 22, 2011
The LSU Center for Computation Technology is putting on an iOS development bootcamp August 1-12. It's open to all LSU undergraduates and costs $300. We've worked with CCT on developing this program and are excited it's something that they're going to…
Community
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
July 13, 2011
I'm getting a lot of on-the-job training regarding entrepreneurship. I've started writing about it on this blog so that others can share in my experiences. The first was about failure and the second about focus . Today is the third post in this…
Entrepreneurship, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
July 05, 2011
Last week I talked about failure and how it relates to entrepreneurship . It's worth a read if you're new to the whole entrepreneur gig or if you have to work with or are close with one of us (admittedly, we're a little neurotic). To summarize…
Entrepreneurship, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
June 30, 2011
There are a lot of things no one really tells you about entrepreneurship. It's a tough road, really, with a lot of ups and downs and unexpected roadblocks. It's absolutely exhilarating, but there's really no way anyone can prepare you for what's…
Entrepreneurship, Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
June 17, 2011
A few weeks ago, I found a link to a talk by Mike Monteiro of Mule Design in San Francisco. It talked about billing and legal issues common with agencies like ours. It's really brilliant and I highly recommend you check it out . The talk was a part…
Community
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
May 24, 2011
We're a web and mobile app development firm, so we build web, iPhone, iPad and Android apps. When we first started, our clients were heavily biased towards web apps. However, over the past few months, that dichotomy has reached parity. The growth of…
Business
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO
May 21, 2011
Welcome to our blog. We've worked hard on getting this out and we're excited about sharing our thoughts on entrepreneurship and web and mobile app development in the future. We hope you'll like what we write!
Company
Logan Leger
Founder & CEO