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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...
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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...
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Channels are not the best way to handle internal discussions
(This article is a follow up on Jason Fried Is group chat making you sweat? I suggest you read it before reading this one) It’s funny to think that 7-8 years ago companies were banning MSN messenger...
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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...
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Scrum, the hard parts
If your team is trying Agile for the first time, then there is a big chance you guys are using Scrum. Scrum is an easy proposition at first glance, push out product increments at a consistent pace with...
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Hiring devs
The way a company hires developers can say a lot about their culture. Is there a very strict HR followed process, tests and the type of those tests, culture-fit interviews, etc. While the point of all...
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Jira, stakeholders and release notes
Jira influence over Agile project management tools is undeniable. It’s old, big, has lots of add-ons and a mountain of configurations that your big tech department management will love. However one...
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My controlled input dilemma with react & redux
“An input that does not supply a value (or sets it to null) is an uncontrolled component. In a controlled input, the value of the rendered element will always reflect the value prop.” The input...
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Thoughts about React, Redux & javascript in 2016
The Javascript language is transforming, with ES6 & new frameworks following different philosophies, if you are currently doing some ES5 with Backbone; it’s time you give it a look before the whole...
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Can you smell it? Javascript is at a turning point.
Things are going fast in front-end, when I think my back about my 10 years careers, I would say the 6 first years were pretty calm, we had jquery & plugins, and were living a small life. But last 4...
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Email on Acid support added to Inker
You can now test your campaigns with email on acid as an alternative to Litmus with Inker. Email renders differently in every email client. Gmail or Outlook? iPhone or Android? Email on Acid preview...
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Being a student at DesignLab
Don’t you feel that everybody is a UX designer these days? It’s one of those things that everyone has an opinion on, but not everyone is good at it. These days a lot of online schools have come to fill...
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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...
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Where did my Google Drive “share with me” tab go?
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 using it. It is...
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Inker, transactional & marketing email development workflow evolved
tl:dr Download | Documentation Any front-end dev will tell you that email template integration is one of the worst part of their job. It is often a task given to interns or to one of those cheap third...
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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...
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Enough with your parallax already
Sometime 5 years ago a web designer decided that having a header with a background image & the text on top not scrolling at the same speed would be a fun idea. Since then, parallax effects have...
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Revisiting the design workflow in a scrum team
The Design process seems to never quite perfectly fit with scrum teams. There are many reasons for this but the most obvious one is that clients often wanna see the design well before the coding is...
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To include design in your dev sprint or get it done ahead of time?
One tough question that product managers seem to be split in half. In web development, design is often a big part of the product & takes a bigger place than in a conventional software product. That...
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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...
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