The work model currently employed by IT companies is mainly SCRUM with Time&Material accounting for performed work. In such case, budgeting can be difficult. In the waterfall model of software development, which was popular a few years ago, such a problem didn’t occur. That model mostly employed Fixed-Price settlement for individual stages or at the end of a […]
February 29, 2016
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Frontend & Mobile
Responsive Web Design – table design
During holiday time, many struggles to pack their belongings into a small suitcase. What should you take? How to arrange things to make maximum use of the space? The same goes for designing responsive tables. Here are some tips on how to cope with the task. Nowadays, responsiveness is one of the main requirements in […]
September 15, 2015
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UX/UI Design
Mixed Methods Research in website optimization
Website optimization and isolating key areas for conversion growth may cause a lot of problems. Where to start? What kinds of change should be considered? What is the most important? To answer these and many other questions it’s good to have a closer look at quantitative and qualitative analyses and how we can use them […]
July 12, 2015
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Strategy & Transformation
How to take over the development of an unknown project from a third party company?
Takeover of a source code created by someone else is one of the most stressful tasks that a programming team may face. However, such a situation is quite frequent. Company that maintains an application may be changed due to many reasons – financial, operational or strategic (system takeover). If we are informed about the takeover in […]
May 19, 2015
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Backend & Architecture
Spring’s @Transactional does not rollback on checked exceptions
We’re using the Spring Framework in most of our applications (and thus also in the Cloudflight Platform) and are really satisfied with it. One of the big advantages is the the declarative transaction handling using the @Transactional attribute. import org.springframework.transaction.Transactional; @Transactional public class MyService implements IMyService { public List getResults () { // do something […]
April 8, 2015
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UX/UI Design
UX – Empathy maps and personas
When designing for a client, regardless of the department you’re working at, you have to know well who he is and what he needs. Even the best specialists can’t determine that arbitrarily, taking into account only their own competencies and experiences. Thus, it’s crucial to use research tools. Depending on its budget and the time […]
February 22, 2015
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Strategy & Transformation
Value, Channel and User in Business Model Canvas
Imagine that you are using a certain internet platform as a user for the first time. The platform is perfect. Everything is clear and where it’s supposed to be, you are navigating the platform as if you have known it forever. Getting to interesting content is a piece of cake, and the entire project evokes […]
February 2, 2015
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Backend & Architecture
IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse Shortcuts
After around seven years of exclusively using Eclipse for Java development I recently got the chance to work on a project where IntelliJ IDEA is the standard editor. All of a sudden my tried and tested Eclipse keyboard shortcuts didn’t work any more. I’m still in the process of learning the IntelliJ Shortcuts but here […]