Posts about Development
Why and When Should You Consider Node.js for Your Next Project?
Node.js is still on track to take over the open source community. Big players from multiple enterprise-level organizations are either implementing it or considering it for their next platform. LinkedIn, Mozilla,...
Node.js Developers to Follow for JavaScript Enthusiasts [Infographic]
Are you a Node.js developer? Although nowadays we’re swamped with information on more or less any topic we can imagine, it can still be hard sometimes to find reliable sources. In every industry, however, there is...
Amazon’s Alexa Skill Development Tutorial: the Conf Room Manager
Amazon Alexa, the popular voice assistant helping with everyday tasks, has become a best friend to many households in the US and elsewhere. The list of available features for Alexa development, released by both Amazon...
Actionable Tips to Improve Web Performance with Rails
Recently, I had a pleasure of attending the Wroclove.rb conference in Wrocław where one talk in particular caught my attention more than others. And not just because Ruby on Rails is my mother tongue. “Web Performance...
“Should I Consider PWA?” Remarkable Possibilities of Progressive Web Apps
Have you heard about progressive Web apps? Of course you have. The whole Internet seems to be discussing them right now. And the subject got even hotter after Google I/O 18’ and a long-awaited confirmation that PWAs are...
Why Is Choosing Good Solutions for Projects So Hard in Rails?
For a long time, I’ve been hearing a lot of criticism about the Rails way and some months ago my private experiences convinced me that I cannot find any use cases for that approach. It has developers build very fat...
ReactXP and React Native in Practice—How We Got a Web App for Free
Using ReactXP and React Native allowed us to develop a native mobile app for two platforms and a Web app simultaneously, essentially giving us the Web app for free. And in this article I'm going to tell you a story...
Tech Leading—A Story of One Project in Four Acts
This is a story of how a day-to-day developer overcame his fears and came out of his comfort zone. Of how he and his team got into a project which code was so bad they cried a little when they saw it for the first time....
Rails Aren’t Bad. Active Record Is.
Is there anyone out there in the Ruby community who doesn’t know Active Record? I don’t think so. Many of us start our adventure with Rails by writing AR models. And we write them a lot. We detect the N+1 issue many...
SOLID Principles Cheatsheet [Printable PDF]
In object-oriented programming, SOLID states for five design principles that help a developer build easy to extend and maintain software. In this article I’m not going to explain what’s hidden behind it though. It’s...
Chicken or the Egg? Terraform’s Remote Backend
Recently, we have decided to expand our DevOps stack with the addition of Terraform for creating Infrastructure as Code manifests. It became obvious from the start that local backend is not an option, so we had to set...
End-To-End Testing With CodeceptJS
One of the first things one learns as a quality assurance specialist is that there are three basic types of automated tests: unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
People to Watch If You’re a Vue.js Developer [Infographic]
You probably already know this: the first step to learning something in any subject is acknowledging that you don’t necessarily know it all inside out. The second step is a bit easier, though, as it does not include any...
How To Index Array of Objects in Elasticsearch
Recently, I’ve been playing around with a search in Elasticsearch and got stuck with development when attempting to work with an array of objects. Indexing went fine, the query results, however, did not look as expected.
What Did I Learn After Going Eighteen Months Without Rails
A couple of months back, I finished my first major project with Ruby but sans Rails. You probably don’t know that, but I’m one of these people who first try to master a framework and only then look at the language...
How To Implement White Label And Custom Features
If you've ever been working on an application with a domain concept like organizations I bet you had to struggle with custom features, behaviors and complete white labels. Most young fellows start such with the if-else...