Coming up with a definition who a senior developer is may be impossible due to the fact that for every person this will mean different things. However, there are some key qualities and capabilities that make senior developer a senior developer.
Starting out is never easy. This is a post aiming to present some of those struggles, shared by real people during one of the recent Meet.js, offer encouragement and support as well as some advice from those more experienced.
In the examples, the testing stack is Jest and Enzyme, but this pattern can be used in any other combination of test runner and renderer. I would like to show you the simple pattern that we are using in Selleo, and how it came to life.
‘A modern CTO is somebody who is a programmer that is also a business person.’ There are many misconceptions about who a CTO is and what are his responsibilities. A CTO is responsible for both long- and short-term needs of a company. He utilizes the business’ capital to invest, in order to reach the goals of the organization.
Choosing the right people may be a complicated task and at first, you may think that the more skilled developers - the better. This is not always the case and this article will answer the question why your teams should not consist only of top-notch engineers.
If you don’t like CSS and you have problems with it, you probably also had a problem with centering things on your beautiful web page. Then you came across a fantastic solution margin: 0 auto; which, according to some online CSS tutorials ALWAYS centers. Well, it does not and this article will tell you why.
I’d like this to be a reasonably detailed overview of how does the upgrade process in Rails look like in general, but with a strong emphasis on Rails 5.2 > 6 upgrade part (RC1 being the latest release). I’ve already seen a number of great posts describing the list of changes that awaits us in Rails 6, so I will skip this entirely and will focus solely on the upgrade.
One-On-One Session (or O3 in short) is a really powerful tool used by many managers all over the world. It is a well-structured meeting in which a manager/team leader spends some time (usually 30 minutes) with each of his/her team member to discuss progress, strengths, weaknesses, goals and other employee-related matters.
Change is inevitable. With the constant development of programming, new technologies emerge and companies that want to stay on top need to keep up with them. This is why the problem of how to introduce new technologies to the company and encourage developers to start using them appears.
Companies developing SaaS can grow overnight. In this kind of software, creation success can happen at lightning speed. A good Software as a Service product can transform a startup into a highly recognizable enterprise. With the popularity growing, scaling will eventually become a priority.
The Ruby on Rails framework is powerful in many ways. One of its strong points is that Ruby on Rails is being shipped with ActiveRecord - an Object Relational Mapping system. ActiveRecord comes up with its own DSL, which lets you write Ruby code, which in turn is translated to SQL, allowing you to use database native features, including “locking”.
