Staff onboarding programs have become common practice; both in large corporations and time-starved startups. The reason for this is pretty straightforward: they have a positive effect on job satisfaction, performance, stress and retention. In other words: they work. Yet, onboarding practices for remote teams are often close to non-existent. This results in many remote developers being… [Read entire article]
Remember how basic the Facebook status update used to be? Now, that same space contains an array of sophisticated text styling options that let users fully express what’s on their minds. This evolution has been driven by rich-text editors like Quill, which allow visitors to fully customise their content: from embedding photos and videos to adding emoticons. In this… [Read entire article]
Selecting the correct technology stack can make or break a project. Sometimes, the desire to use the next ‘hot’ technology leads stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) to make unwise decisions in this department. Twitter is a high profile example of this phenomenon. In 2010, the social giant shipped a new Single Page Application (SPA) architecture that… [Read entire article]
This weekend was an exciting one for us here at Scalable Path. On Saturday, November 25th, 2017 a few of our developers took part in the Rio Sul Valley Dev Summit in Brazil. The Rio Sul Valley initiative is a project by a network of professionals, startups, and third sector organizations who want to integrate Silicon Valley innovation… [Read entire article]
I first started working with iOS fresh out of university. Working with an unfamiliar platform and programming language was challenging. What really made me nervous though; were the designs that would come through from the creative team. A great design can breathe new life into a website, but the more unique it is, the more… [Read entire article]
The remote workforce revolution is redefining the relationship between businesses and their employees. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, the number of people working remotely more than four days a week rose from 24 percent to 31 percent between 2012 and 2016. It is now estimated that within the next 3 years, over… [Read entire article]
Have you heard about GraphQL? Facebook open-sourced it in 2015 and I believe it is a much better way to establish contracts between a client and a server than REST. If, like me, you are always searching for the easiest way to develop and maintain code, this GraphQL Tutorial is for you. In this article… [Read entire article]
I flew over to Austin last week to join 2,000 attendees at the increasingly popular ChefConf event. Chef is a configuration management tool for the DevOps community. I’ve put together my highlights from the event, including the slides and quotes from some of my favorite talks. Adding developers to the DevOps Process Annie Hsieh is… [Read entire article]
You don’t have to look far to find advice on improving your email marketing in general. However, advice specifically focused on newsletter marketing is harder to find. There is a big difference between targeted ad hoc email promotions and newsletters, just as a magazine subscription and piece of direct mail differ. So trying to apply… [Read entire article]
Scrum is perfect for small, remote teams working on complex software products. But its rapid rise in popularity has meant that Agile Project Management with Scrum it is often not fully understood, even by those who have been exposed to it. In this series, I hope to clear up some of the confusion around terminology,… [Read entire article]