Tag: Product and design
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto
Posted on October 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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Launching my first Flutter app
Posted on October 16, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Learn how to create a Python GUI with PyQt5
Posted on September 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Michael Herrmann explains how you can use PyQt5 to build a desktop app with Python. It covers everything from the best way to set up PyQt in 2018, to compiling your app and distributing it to other people's computers.
Tags backend-development miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Six layout myths busted
Posted on September 20, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article encapsulating thoughts by Jen Simmons on topic of six layout myth. Every website reaches for an identical 12-column symmetrical grid. Every site uses the same shapes and patterns over and over. And we are totally bored.
Tags product-and-design miscellaneous frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Beginner's guide to designing smart chatbots
Posted on September 15, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Vaibhav Verma, an User Experience Designer at Haptik, about his experience with designing the smart chatbots over 4 years period. He has designed more than 50 chatbots across various domains and use cases.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design
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Compiler hinting with Kotlin contracts
Posted on September 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Jarno Walgemoed short introduction on some new interesting features in Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin's built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that's less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. Kotlin is introducing Contracts in the upcoming 1.3 release in which we can use contracts to tell the compiler how a function behaves and what results are implied, so we can benefit from improved smart-casts.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Understanding Android Gradle build
Posted on August 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Łukasz Wasylkowski article about Android Gradle builds. In his post he'll write, step by step, Gradle configuration files for a single Android project in order to take some of the magic away.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd
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React Native -- how to setup your first app
Posted on July 22, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Aman Mittal's article about first steps with React Native. React Native is a framework for building mobile applications with JavaScript and leveraging Reactjs. It uses native UI components. In React Native, there is no DOM rather than Native Components which are provided by platforms such iOS and Android.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Best practices for unit testing in Kotlin
Posted on June 9, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Philipp Hauer post about how unit testing in Kotlin is fun and tricky at the same time. We can benefit a lot from Kotlin's powerful language features to write readable and concise unit tests.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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The character of Kotlin
Posted on June 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Marcin Moskala interesting blog post inspired by Seven Languages in Seven Week book in which he presents characteristics of Kotlin language. And one very typical Kotlin trait is that it isn't really introducing anything new into programming languages family.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design backend-development
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How to build a realtime chart in iOS
Posted on May 31, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Neo Ighodaro article about building real time application in iOS. Nowadays, gathering data is one of the keys to understanding how products are perceived. However, all the data in the world would be useless without a way to visualize it.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Build and publish PWA in 3 app stores. What I learned.
Posted on May 10, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Judah Gabriel wrote this post about his experience with PWA publishing. The article is about turning a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA) and submitting it to 3 app stores requiring about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape.
Tags product-and-design