John Kasiewicz – Software Engineer / Composer / Guitarist

September 25, 2014 / Technology

Deploying ElasticSearch on Heroku with Rails 4

I recently deployed a Rails 4 app with ElasticSearch to Heroku and ran into a…

Read the post

September 6, 2014 / Music

John’s music featured in Comcast Xfinity TV Commercial

Comcast Xfinity recently selected “Reuse,” a song by John for the soundtrack of their latest…

Read the post

September 2, 2014 / Technology

Active Record enums in Ruby on Rails 4.1

I was recently working on a Rails app that required role-based authorization for its users.…

Read the post

August 1, 2014 / Technology

How to check if a table is empty in Rails

You may already know that if you want to check for the existence of an…

Read the post

June 6, 2013 / Music

ZAGAT & Google-produced series features John’s music

Google recently teamed up with ZAGAT to produce a new food and restaurant review show…

Read the post

December 5, 2012 / Music

Hear John’s music in Miley Cyrus’ SO UNDERCOVER

SO UNDERCOVER, a 2012 action-comedy movie starring Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven, Josh Bowman, Kelly Osbourne…

Read the post

February 23, 2012 / Music

John’s music featured on ESPN for Maverik Lacrosse

John’s song REUSE is featured in the latest Maverik Lacrosse commercial campaign ‘Evolve the Player,…

Read the post

February 4, 2012 / Music

SKECHERS national commercial features John’s music

SKECHERS recently selected a track by John for their latest “Men’s Sport” TV commercial.

February 4, 2012 / Music

John scores television commercial for Crayola

Crayola hired John for their latest “Crayola Story Studio Spiderman” commercial. Now seen on broadcast…

Read the post

February 4, 2012 / Music

Other major brands currently using John’s music…

February 4, 2012 / Music

DRIVER’S ED MUTINY trailer now posted.

John Kasiewicz composed the music for indie film DRIVER’S ED MUTINY (2010).

February 3, 2012 / Music

HELL’S FURY now available at Walmart, Amazon, Netflix

HELL’S FURY (REACH FOR THE SKY) featuring an original soundtrack by John is now available…

Read the post

February 1, 2012 / Music

Time Released Sound Releases New 5turns25 Album

5turns25 released their fifth album “Evolution Of The Human Heart” with ambient/folk label Time Release…

Read the post

September 8, 2014 / Technology

CSS namespacing for Rails controllers and actions

Do you ever find yourself fighting with CSS conflicts in the asset pipeline? Heres’s a…

Read the post

August 12, 2014 / Technology

SSL Error (failed certificate) with Ruby, Rails and OSX

Outdated SSL certificate files could be the reason you’re getting the Ruby error: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect…

Read the post

John Kasiewicz Posts