Cos’ Every Road Has Its Start

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It all started about 10 hours ago and I am still fresh, hopefully due to the amazing coffee. And nothing compares to the feeling of being useful on your first day at work, then receiving your first task as a trainee. I am used to “The Writer” nickname. I always like to write down things, it helps me keep them organized and up to date.

The Trip Companions

I remember I woke up early in the morning to be one of the first to come to the office. First impression as I entered the door: young team, smiles on their faces, a friendly mode of saying “Welcome!”.

REST Best Practices: Choosing HTTP Methods

We do a lot of REST in the Pineapple team. We love REST. Why? There are many reasons:

  • It is standard, so that creating services always follows a pattern
  • Developing clients is super easy, in all programming languages
  • Programmers can easily understand it
  • Testing (of all types) can be easily automated
  • Because it relies on HTTP, it’s highly scalable infrastructure wise
  • We can choose the preferred data format for sending and receiving information – usually JSON 🙂

Graduation Papers In The Cloud

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The other day, during a team meeting, someone brought up the issue of tools that make students’ lives easier than it was years ago. I was stunned to learn that I can be the “esteemed” author a of a scientific paper in a matter of minutes, using the proper tools. 😀

Bear in mind the fact that my career is correlated with the science papers at the level of a 10th grader. I hold an MA, would love an MS, but I never considered using this to get it.

Love Is A Phone Call Away

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Do you think today is just a ordinary day? Don’t you just love those big fluffy hearts that are everywhere?!? So do we!

As one of our male colleagues put it, Valentine’s Day is a celebration that women worship and man loathe. Except for us! The ladies in 4PSA team are completely unimpressed at being loved more than usual on one particular day. We prefer that to happen every day. 😉

URL, URN, URI, IRI – Why So Many?

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Computer guys tend to lack imagination, especially when they work with acronyms. This may lead to a lot of funny stuff. Let’s look at the following acronyms, for instance: URI, URN, URL, and IRI.

In interviews I like to ask this question and only once a guy was able to give an almost 100% correct answer. Somehow, I was not particularly surprised about it, as even widely adopted specifications contain subtle mistakes.

Behind the Walls – 4PSA Teams

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In a previous article, we promised you a better insight on how we are organized internally, namely the product-oriented teams we built. So, let’s start to review the teams 🙂

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This software engineering team is handling the low-level aspects of our software engineering, i.e. most of the stuff other teams need in order to develop their products. Because we are lazy, we like to keep things standardized. 😀 This means that all frameworks (with one exception) are developed at this level.

Static vs. Dynamic Type – Maybe More Important Than You Think

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Most programmers think they know what this means. I’ve heard it many times because I often ask developers on job interviews to tell me what they prefer.

Why?

Might sound like a trivial question, but  it is quite relevant. Programming languages are just tools and we want to know whether our possible future colleague is able to understand how things work.

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