- Engineers, Culture, Core Values and Interviews Over the years, I have been part of the hiring process of some 40 to 50 software developers, as with most engineers, the majority of my interviews were very technical, diving into code, processes, and architecture, one thing I learned slowly was how to probe for team and company fit. Of course, with a quick […]
- Scrum-But is still better than what you are doing For the last three years, I have been implementing Scrum methodologies in the companies I have been joining. A couple of years ago I joined a company that was trying to rewrite its e-commerce website for a year and a half. Applying Scrum and shuffling the team to have the assets we needed to build […]
- Rethinking how we manage email development & transactional delivery Coding emails is one of the most depressing tasks in front-end development. From coding to sending we tend to want to push those tasks as far from us as we possibly can, but emails are a very important part of any system, and it is imperative that we take the time to do it right. […]
- Where did my Google Drive “shared with me” tab go? Update: Google changed Incoming back to Shared with me. Without even probably realizing it Google Drive have become an integral part of my day to day toolset, everyone in my company use it to share documents across teams & departments. For a tool to be useful It is important that our workflow is as painless […]
- 6 things an email marketing manager should know It’s sometimes hard for a marketing manager to move into email marketing management, going into it head down can sometimes even cause a melt down on their first campaign. Doing email marketing is special, you have a lot of tools available but at the same time you are dealing with a very outdated technology. Here […]
- Agile workflow with GitHub issues GitHub is a very interesting always evolving product, it is becoming more & more the go to software to centralize (yeah I know..) your company repositories but also (and more importantly) keep track of the stuff you have to do in your projects with Github issues. Github issues is really a simple product & the […]
- PhoneGap build, 6 frustrating issues explained Phonegap & phonegap Build are amazing technologies, unfortunately the documentation does not always tell you want you want to know. Here a compilation of issues I encountered while using phonegap build for the first time & how I solved them. Black bars only on iPhone 5 (not full size). I had this issue right from […]
- An html5 app turned native in 10 minutes with phonegap build? It’s possible, kind of. By now I’m pretty sure you know of PhoneGap. The framework that enables you to put an html5 app in a web view & push it into the different appstore. But do you know about PhoneGap Build? Intended for the ones that do not want to get their hand directly into the sdk, this new […]
- Tap & click events in mobile web apps, the madness has to stop You should know by now that when you click on a link in the ios mobile browser there is a 300ms delay. Not so many people know where this come from, in fact it comes all the way back from 2007. Engineers at Apple were trying to figuring out how to add a double tap […]
- Releasing Backbone.js Mobile Components, beta version Doing mobile web apps can be challenging, not that it’s really harder than doing desktop style app, it’s just different. Working with mobile you need to focus on simplicity & performance. When I started dabbling into doing mobile web apps with Backbone.js I really wanted to abstract from the start the mobile part to focus […]