Tag - Tips & Tricks

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Client handbook part 2: tricky questions from a software team

Do you know how software teams evaluate clients? What would you answer to some of these tricky questions? Let's break down the thinking that goes behind some of the common topics when clients talk to software companies.

04.12.2019, 5 min read: Jakub Petrykowski

Trello Stats - Track productivity in a simple way

In this article, I will go through the idea behind Trello Stats, what kind of challenges it has presented in front of me as an entry-level developer, and what have I learned.

15.10.2019, 6 min read: Adrian Capitta

CEOs insights - how to be prepared for superior business relations

Every company has its business life cycle and building long-term relations might have a bit different energy and course. We look for valuable insights from each meeting or event, and a lot of them are worth being shared.

27.07.2019, 6 min read: Katarzyna Leszczynska-Bhodan

Keep IT clean - coding good practices: naming

This is the second post from a series of articles about broadly defined clean code. If you overlooked the first part of the series, which is about comments, then you can find it here. Whereas in this post, you can read about another factor that influences the quality of dev’s code: naming. I will give a widely described lists of todos and not todos in terms of the current topic.

24.06.2019, 10 min read: Grzegorz Pijański

Moving from Android development to Java web development

A few thoughts on the switching from Android development to Java web development. There will be rather loose thoughts. I’ve shaped them on the basis of my own experience as a programmer who after 1.5 years abandoned Android to create a backend in Java. I encourage you to read this if you center your thoughts on such a change.

12.06.2019, 5 min read: Grzegorz Pijański

Keep IT clean - coding good practices: comments

This post is the beginning of a series about good programming practices and so-called “clean code”. It touches a very important element of our code - comments. By reading this post you can verify if you are coding according to the rules of the clean code when it comes to applying comments. You will know when and for what reasons you shouldn’t use comments and when they are accepted or even recommented.

28.05.2019, 6 min read: Grzegorz Pijański

Everyone's an Expert - do your job and stay sane

Some jobs, positions or work fields must deal with a specific problem - they can be very difficult and hard to master, but they rely more on soft than hard skills. There are many of these professions, but as an example, let’s consider User Experience (UX) Designer, who generally speaking improves the interaction between user and product. Specifics of this job lead to one uncomfortable statement.

23.05.2019, 6 min read: Szymon Juskowiak

How to serve web app that supports specific browsers?

Building websites or web apps for all major browsers means extra work to do because you must ensure that all of the code you write is supported in each browser.

19.04.2019, 4 min read: Piotr Broniszewski

One cool training method to get better at app security

We live in amazing times. Since we use the internet every day on our mobile phones, tablets, and computers, in every moment we can order food for dinner, buy a book we always wanted to read, book a hotel for our vacations and much more. With all those possibilities comes a great issue: personal data we provide has to be stored securely. It’s not that simple. Almost every day we can find news about data leakages, stolen identity or money fraud.

16.04.2019, 5 min read: Adam Mruk

Client handbook part 1: what (not) to say to a software house

22.01.2019, 13 min read: Jakub Petrykowski

Why should you consider working with story points?

If you are a project manager, product manager or a software developer, and you are about to estimate a project in story points for the first time, this blog post is for you.

11.12.2018, 9 min read: Michał Gorski

Mindfulness in business

Conferences like Slush, TechCrunch or WebSummit are great opportunities to get news from the industry, share experience and discuss case studies. One of the essential parts of such events is meeting people and listening to them, but not necessarily selling.

30.11.2018, 2 min read: Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Bohdan

Expo for React Native - speed up your development

Take a closer look at Expo, a free set of development tools built on top of React Native. It makes your mobile app development faster and less painful, from initiating a project, through working with device APIs, to publishing and updating the app. It includes a graphical IDE, a CLI, and a huge set of ready to use functional components that cover the most popular mobile scenarios - push notifications, device features such as camera, maps, handling biometrics, and much more. Expo is one of the YCombinator-backed startups (class of summer 2016).

13.11.2018, 9 min read: Szymon Juskowiak

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