Virtual Interviews—Tips for Managers and Candidates A variety of circumstances drive managers in the direction of the virtual interview: When the team members that will be involved in the hiring decision are distributed across the country (or the world), When one of the team members is taking a vacation (well…a working vacation), When the cost […]
Top 5 Tips for Selecting a Custom Software Development Company Are you looking to hire a Software Development Company to build your next great software project? If you are non-technical, or unfamiliar with software development, that can be a daunting task. How do you even vet a company? All companies will tell you they can […]
Top 5 Tips for Selecting the Right Technical Staffing Company So, you want to select a technical staffing and recruiting company. What criteria should you use to make your selection? Here are our top 5, listed in countdown format. Because it’s more fun that way. Number 5: Ensure your agency can offer both staffing and […]
Modern JavaScript TypeScript How far we’ve come! Back in the day, JavaScript was the nightmare language that no one wanted to use—partly due to its quirks and mostly due to terrible competing browser ecosystems. It got better with JQuery, which fixed the latter problem by making it easier to access the browser's DOM in a […]
In Part 1 of this series, the topic of merge bugs was introduced. Merge bugs are the result of changes in multiple branches that don't result in conflicts, but when the two changes are merged together the result is not consistent with the intent of either modification. In Part 1, the following process was suggested […]
You’ve heard of merge conflicts, but what about merge bugs? Like conflicts, these are caused when multiple developers work on the same code and then merge changes. Conflicts (when the same line is changed by more than one developer) are easy to detect, but bugs outside of those conflicts are much more complex. They won’t […]
In the article "Progressive Web Applications, Part 1," I laid out what a progressive web application is, and how it can enhance a web application to look and function like a real, native mobile application. I also covered what is and isn’t supported by today’s major platforms, Android and IOS. In this article I’ll be […]
“Progressive Web Application” is a popular new terminology that encompasses an up and coming standard for web applications. This standard gives web apps the ability to be installed to a device and to function like a normal, lightweight device application. Devices can be mobile phones, tablets, or even more recently desktops. The app can be […]
Who knew that 80% of money transfers and 95% of ATM swipes are still powered by programs written in COBOL? This is very good news for retired COBOL programmers who want to keep doing a bit of work. It is also good news for younger developers who learned to program in COBOL to take some […]
Node Package Manager (NPM) is a great tool that brings order to the world of open source JavaScript software, and its CLI is an excellent extension to our software development toolset. However, as a software solution ages it can be difficult to keep NPM dependencies up to date and consistent across all development and build […]