The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
one of the key questions that was asked of employees was the simple question, "What was their reason for leaving?" The four most common reasons for leaving their organization were, in order of rank:
Thinking about joining a startup, or working at one already? That’s great! If you play your cards right, it will be one of the best decisions you’ve ever made in your professional career.
Sugen på nytt jobb eller nya utmaningar på din nuvarande arbetsplats? Här är tipsen som stärker dig i karriären.
A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.
De som lyckas skapa en lärande organisation kan räkna med bättre lönsamhet, eftersom de blir snabbare på att reagera på förändringar i omvärlden. De blir dessutom attraktivare som arbetsgivare enligt Johan Skoglöf.
What single project or task would you consider the most significant accomplishment in your career so far?
For better or for worse, the idea someone will remain at a company long term is just so 2001. So if employers today are truly dedicated to their employees it means accepting they’ll likely leave.
Ta chansen och jobba utomlands. Men planera ut- och hemresan i god tid. Det rådet ger Patrik och Linda Nord efter tre år i Kuala Lumpur.
Vill du jobba utomlands, eller med folk från andra länder? Grattis, då ligger du rätt i tiden. Framtidens melodi är internationellt samarbete. Men satsar man kommer också nya utmaningar.
Jag gillar Windows 8 numera! Efter månader av frustration och ren ilska har jag äntligen kommit på vad det är bra till - Det har äntligen givit mig ett verktyg att få sonen att städa sitt rum och plocka undan sin disk. "Om du inte städar ditt rum och sköter läxorna så installerar jag Windows 8 på din dator". Funkar varje gång ;)
- IFS var lite för stort för oss, det var lite stelt. Det har mycket funktionalitet som vi inte utnyttjar, för mycket för att det ska vara lönsamt.
You’ll hear about these myths most of the time on management level, but some of them can be found on the development level, too. IMHO it’s important to be aware of these myths to be prepared for possible discussions.
Because the basic fact: people spend what they make. If your salary increases $5,000 you spend an extra $2000 on features for your car, you have an affair, you buy a new computer, a better couch, a bigger TV, and then you ask, "where did all the money go?"
Det kanske finns, men själv har jag inte sett system där man arbetar rollbaserat, dvs man ställer rättigheter på väldigt låg nivå (typ enstaka artiklar/kunder/leverantörer i affärssystem etc).
Analyst Bryan Hopkins gave us a peek into what Forrester thinks is next, and much of it builds on those four horseman of disruptive change.
Kalifornien säger upp SAP som leverantör för ett nytt lönesystem. Systemet som redan kostat 254 miljoner dollar var tänkt att ta hand om lönerna för statens 240 000 anställda.
I’m developing what I hope might be one of the future’s forum software alternatives. (There’s a demo at the end of the page.)
Vi kan väl göra en deal? Så fort Island har skickat en man till månen så får de förbjuda porr utan att någon lägger sig i!
This application is designed to help beginners grasp the powerful concepts behind branching when working with git. We hope you enjoy this application and maybe even learn something!
A summary for this great question that appeared on Quora: http://www.quora.com/User-Interface-Design/What-are-the-best-UI-elements-controls-patterns-etc-that-have-cropped-up-in-modern-web-sites-and-web-apps-recently
So they decided to do an experiment for a few months. They moved one of the testers from India to Stockholm and dropped the other two testers (re-allocating the other two to other teams) to see how that would work.
– När vi blev uppköpta av RIM upptäckte vi att de hade samma problem som vi, att säljarna levde i sin egen lilla bubbla, säger han. Det betyder enligt Hampus Jakobsson att säljaren inte har riktig kontroll på produkten samtidigt som de som utvecklar den inte vet vad som säljs eller vad kunden efterfrågar
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Studier visar också att det är mer effektivt att kommunicera öga mot öga än över internet. Att jobba hemifrån blir trots det allt vanligare i rask takt.
It’s based on an unrealistic list of requirements, using weak estimates, made at the moment of maximum ignorance, by people who are always optimistic about their own abilities. It has been squeezed down by managers who think they need to be tough, and sometimes it is just overridden by someone who has made a rash promise to someone higher up the food chain.
Kompetensbristen inom it-utveckling i Sverige får allt fler företag att söka sig utomlands för att hitta rätt personer att anställa.
Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based off of Scrum.
With winter malaise in full swing and the holidays a distant memory, this time of year can kill productivity. To help you and your employees get through the February slump, here’s a couple tips for that have worked wonders for us:
We love that neat little "pull to refresh" feature on our devices, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it was for the web? Well, that’s what Hook is here to do.
These are the eight strategies that I use to build championship teams:
One of the new trends in terms of digital design, especially interface design, is the return of simple, flat and typographical design.
Spotify har växt från 50 till 300 anställda på två år. Men samtidigt som företaget måste bli större för att stå sig i konkurrensen är det viktigt att snabbheten inte går förlorad.
Dangle provides directives that allow you to create visualizations of your data. You can easily bind the result of queries to HTML elements. When the results update, your visualizations will also update. You can build powerful, interactive applications with just a few lines of HTML.
Enligt en enkät från bemanningsföretaget Wise Group är det här vad som får oss att trivas på jobbet:
Two younger, married team members recently requested permission to move to Amsterdam for eight months — for no other reason than they wanted to experience another culture. For a moment, I bridled. But since technology makes it possible for them to do their jobs from anywhere, we were able to make it happen. They agreed to work during our regular office hours, and to visit our office for a week every two months. So far it seems to be working seamlessly.
I’m very excited to talk about a technique that we’ve started using at LayerVault. We call it Progressive Reduction.
I didn’t mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It’s a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don’t learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren’t satisfied with the languages they already know.
IE Business School grad Adam Pervez quit a secure job at Siemens last summer to travel the world helping locals communities. We caught up with him during a brief pit stop in London to find out what it’s like to be "Chief Happiness Officer" of your own life, and why he quit the corporate world.
Scaling Agile Meetup 20130311
Dick Olsson flyttade ner med sin flickvän, som också jobbar med Drupal och fick jobb på Qnbn (Qatar National Broadband Network), en statlig organisation som står för utbyggnaden av bredband. 18 månader senare är den 25-årige före detta Skövdebon nöjd med sin tillvaro och den utmaning en flytt innebar.
Today I’d like to start a brand new series, the focus of which is the elimination of waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be traced all the way back to the the mid-1900’s, the birth of lean manufacturing, and the Toyota Production System (TPS).
Fortunately, most enterprise software markets are ripe for disruption from purpose-built, superior solutions.
Face-to-face communication is the most effective means for sharing knowledge within a project team, and even teams separated by only an elevator ride or stair climb will have less face-to-face interaction. Get all of the project team in the same room if at all possible.
What software are you using for that?" Ah! I get it. I smiled and pointed to my ear. "No software. I just listen to everything that comes in, and recommend other good stuff like it.
One in four people will leave your site when confronted with CAPTCHA. But it doesn’t have to be this way: PlayThru increases your conversions by 60%.
Bring the team back to one or two userstories to be worked upon. Teammembers might argue that they sometime cannot work on the same story. It is then a good idea to let them pair, test or write documentation. They have to work together to get the stories done and not just the tasks. Allowing everybody working on individual task is not effective and does not help the team and therefore the end product.
Today, we’re taking another step towards that goal by announcing the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge: we pledge not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked.
Building architecture and software architecture have a lot in common, but there is one crucial difference. While architects study thousands of buildings in their training and during their careers, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well. And more often than not, those are programs they wrote themselves. They never get to see the great programs of history, or read critiques of those programs’ designs written by experienced practitioners. As a result, they repeat one another’s mistakes rather than building on one another’s successes.
I dag lanseras Osom, en ny app som du kan sälja och köpa kläder, skor och vintageprylar med. Namnet kommer från engelskans "awesome" och är ett uppstartsföretag som vill vara, som man själva uttrycker det, "en marknadsplats för vackra saker".
Gothenburg’s is one of the finest towns in Sweden when it comes to choose a tranquil, yet beautiful place to spend your weekends, your vacations or why not (this is for the edgy ones) your life.
Jag vill dock påpeka att det här inte är en nedskärning vi gör för att det går dåligt, utan det är något vi gör för att vi vill göra det, och för att vi vill strukturera om.
I veckan fick jag än en gång frågan varför det är så. "Varför klarar företag att växa fort för att sedan tappa fart?". Mitt standardsvar på denna fråga är: "De har nog anställd en CFO!".
Hennes förväntningar på arbetsgivarna är höga. Flexibilitet, trygghet, human människosyn, snabb bekräftelse och förtroende för den närmaste chefen återkommer under vårt samtal och är på många sätt representativa för den här generationen.
I Sverige utbildar vi duktiga ingenjörer. Konkurrensen om arbetskraft är ännu större i Silicon Valley, så egentligen är det lättare här.
This post is going to be an attempt to simply address some of the low hanging fruit out there, and try to bring together a few different concepts that a developer should understand before they go out and try to tackle something like Backbone.js or Ember.js.
A closure is a function defined within another scope that has access to all the variables within the outer scope.
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucracy.
On days the teams were most creative, they were also closest to each other and most physically active. "We have this myth that you do your best work when you’re alone, and it’s not true," says Ben Waber, president of Sociometric Solutions and inventor of the badges. Productivity and creativity can be polar opposites. On the other hand, organizations also need productivity—six hours of mental peace to finish a single complex piece of work.
Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company. However, as a user of the start-up’s service, your own incredible journey must end, because all of your photos and writing and checkins and messages and relationships must now be deleted.
The following is a list of different ways to visualize two numbers. In many cases, the visualization depends directly on the unit, meaning, interpretation and context of the values.
58 procent av världens it-outsourcing utförs i Indien. Men vilka är det som gör jobbet - och vad tänker de om oss? CIO Sweden åkte till it-fabriken i Bangalore. (via På besök i den indiska it-fabriken - IDG.se)
I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people.
Perhaps you’ve read posts like Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and Falsehoods programmers believe about time. Maybe you’ve also read Falsehoods programmers believe about geography. Addressing is a fertile ground for incorrect assumptions, because everyone’s used to dealing with addresses and 99% of the time they seem so simple.
Extrovertas naturliga fiende är en tom almanacka, introvertas är telefonen, som avbryter och överrumplar med intimitet.
På samma sätt uppfattas det som mer avkopplande att läsa en pappersbok än en e-bok, och att prata i telefon anses vara mer socialt än att hålla kontakt med sina vänner via mejl, Skype eller Facebook.
We built screensiz.es to help you quickly find the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market.
The Maps Javascript API V3 supports the display of custom panoramas within the StreetViewPanorama object. Using custom panoramas, you can display the interior of buildings, views from scenic locations, or anything from your imagination. You can even link these custom panoramas to Google’s existing Street View panoramas.
Today it was announced that Qubulus is put into bankruptcy. It was expected. Ever since I exited the company on the 6th of January last year. Why? When you have (or had) the best technology available? When you have a fast growth market of indoor positioning with smart opportunities for indoor navigation and all the add-ons for that? When WifiSLAM and Meridian got acquired within the last six months?
...something about public speaking and specifically about conference speaking.
Sju av tio jobb tillsätts via kontakter och personliga nätverk. Meriter tycks inte väga lika tungt. "Beskriv vad du verkligen vill göra", säger karriärrådgivaren Viveka Andersson.
Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on API design. But, since there’s no one widely adopted standard that works in all cases, you’re left with a bunch of choices: What formats should you accept? How should you authenticate? Should your API be versioned?
At Spotify we take these types of incidents seriously. Our mission when dealing with outages is to avoid having the same incident twice. We want to be able to learn something new with each incident. However, sometimes we fail.
A self-contained functional library, Brian McKenna’s Bilby stretches the possibilities of functional style in JavaScript.
It is nearly a career certainty: that unpleasant feeling of being stuck and not really knowing what to do about it comes around at least once over the course of a working life. Colleagues and new hires are being picked for plum positions while you sit by. Perhaps your job starts to feel like a dead end with little room for creativity or advancement.
It was a job offer, and these were the terms: $150,000 in salary, a $10,000 signing bonus, stock options, a free gym membership, excellent health and dental benefits, a new cellphone, and free lunch and dinner every weekday. My working day would start at about 11am. It would end whenever I liked, sometime in the early evening. The work would rarely strain me. I’d have a lot of autonomy and responsibility. My co-workers would be about my age, smart, and fun.
With very rare exceptions of some OSS or in-house projects (Google, FB) most of software industry consists of such sweatshops which are almost an assembly lines which produce bloatware that mere passes most of tests. Have you ever seen so-called Enterprise Software? ERPs? Web-portals? Or take a look at the bloatware MS produces - these all products of such software-manufacturing processes.
A UI concept which merges loading indicators into the action that invoked them.
Transporter is a private cloud storage device for syncing, sharing, accessing, and protecting your digital life. No cloud, no fees, no privacy concerns. Your files are only stored on your Transporters and computers and mobile devices that you authorize.
Imagine if you could go abroad and turn on data roaming without worrying what it will cost you. The new service Fogg is a first step towards that world.
I think it’s always good to be working on two things: The next most important thing, and the next most interesting thing.
I learned that one will see this sort of problems in all large scale companies. Most of them are not specific to Microsoft at all. Every company has its own problems.
Unit tests created through the TDD process naturally sit at the extreme left of this scale. They contain a lot of knowledge about the behaviour of a single unit of code. If that unit’s behaviour changes, so must its unit tests, and vice-versa. But they don’t contain any knowledge or assumptions about other parts of your codebase, so changes to other parts of your codebase don’t make them start failing
I work at Osom. I used to say "I’m starting a company", but these days I’m not starting, I’m working. So what’s the difference?
the same personality traits that make people good at programming also cause them to have a disobedient attitude toward authority figures and social conventions.
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
So here it is: Don’t hash secrets. Never. No, sorry, I know you think your case is special but it’s not. No. Stop it. Just don’t do it. You’re making the cryptographers cry.
Frågar man leverantörerna så säger alla att de har molnlösningar – men då ljuger de. Vad de pratar om är de internetbaserade asp-tjänster som har funnits i 30 år. Det handlar ju inte om äkta molnbaserade tjänster där servrar delas eller där det kommer uppgraderingar varje vecka. Det är som skillnaden mellan finöl och fulöl, fast i tappningen affärssystem – fin-erp och ful-erp, säger Jonas Andersson.
After searching the code base and the web, I discovered it was a built-in for a feature set I had never encountered before: Web Workers! With curiosity piqued, I dove in to learn about the mysterious call and what it can do.
There isn’t enough discussion to read about using the model-view-controller architecture for client-side JavaScript web application development and it’s a shame.
In this guide I want to discuss a few trends and possible techniques for creating responsive image backgrounds
A tutorial on how to create some subtle and modern caption hover effects.
OverAPI.com Collecting All Cheat Sheets
Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the unicode snowman, as a username). However, it has also been a reliable source of pain over the years. This is the story of one time when it bit us pretty badly and how we spent Easter dealing with it.
– Efter tre går det inte att gå ut och ta en kaffe här. Ska man käka middag är det Onlinepizza som gäller (också grundat i Linköping, red. anm.). Det finns inte riktigt någon after work-kultur, men det är inte en avspegling av Linköping som helhet. Det som saknas är en kritisk massa. I Stockholm kan man alltid hitta någon när man går till ett kafé och det finns en del workspace-ställen.
As usual, with competing technologies both have value, the challenge is to know when to use each one (spoiler: luckily the answer is almost always REST).
Vill du göra ett exjobb där du får möjlighet att utveckla och forma en ny IT-platform som en del av ett startup-team från allra första början?
This plugin for jQuery will arrange your images to fit exactly within a container. You can define the padding between images, give the images css borders and define a target row height.
Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with a new project based on HTML5 Boilerplate. It generates for you a clean customizable template with just what you need to start!
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Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast at scale lies in small teams. He explores intricacies of organizational design in engineering and explains how making intentional decisions throughout growth ensures that you don’t lose the things that are unique and special about being a startup.
Over the past decade, Oracle has emerged as the laggard in the cloud market. VC’s had advised their startups not to build on Oracle to avoid the cost overhead and legacy database technology. Yet Larry Ellison remains the rare master of Sun Tzu’s Art of War strategies. In this latest effort, he shows his determination to serve as the arms dealer for cloud infrastructure.
I Brasilien ska nya lagar, en öppenhetsportal samt öppna data stoppa korruptionen. Att utgifterna blir offentliga sätter press på ministrar och tjänstemän som spenderar pengarna. Och öppenhetslagen går längre än den svenska offentlighetsprincipen, genom att det är själva informationen, inte handlingarna, som ska vara offentlig. Den ska dessutom publiceras, inte bara vara tillgänglig.
It turns out that that’s indeed possible, and using CSS transforms we can scale up the image using the GPU, which gives us a reasonable performance boost.
The elasticity with 12c does not come in from the storage side, but from how the metadata to access the user data is handled... and that is highly elastic, with system load determining what part of the metadata and for which user database it will be running.
An Amazon fulfillment associate might have to walk as far as 15 miles in a single shift, endlessly looping back and forth between shelves in a warehouse the size of nine soccer fields. They do this in complete silence, except for the sound of their feet.
– Vi har haft en bra svensk betakund i IFS som har testat väsentliga nya funktioner under ett års tid, säger Bengt Eriksson som arbetar med tekniskt säljstöd på Oracle i Sverige.
Contrast that with SOAP, which is nominally text based, but is orders of magnitude more complex than REST because it is built with the idea that humans will never really have to read or understand it. I’ve been in this business for two decades, and the only way I know to hand-debug a SOAP transaction is with a hammer and a straitjacket2. Heck, I’ll take an old-school EDI transaction over SOAP any day.
Work can, however, provide an array of meaningful experiences, even though many employees do not enjoy those in their current job. So, what are the sources of meaningful experiences at work?
Large companies tend to be regarded as dull and unsexy. All the real action and fun is at small startups (preferably Web 2.0 at the moment). Well, I run my own company now and I would never go back. But I am really glad I worked for a large company. Here are my reasons why
So, whether you’re a job seeker looking for a great new place to call work-home or a manager who wants to offer your employees something extra-special, check out 10 of our favorite office benefits and perks.
So the next time you think "I’ve built a reusable thing!", stop, and think "how can I find three users, customers, or audiences, to prove that I’ve built something reusable?" instead.
In a digital world, Piwik gives you insights on your website’s visitors, your marketing campaigns and much more, so you can optimize your strategy and online experience of your visitors. Piwik is the leading open source web analytics platform available in 48 languages!
Making data from the web as easy as copy & paste.
This case study is our humble plea to airlines, and the travel industry in general. Let’s work together, take the lead, and chart the course that others will follow.
With backeam you can model your entities and relationships no matter how simple or complex they are. Then you can query the database with a simple yet powerful SQL-like language. Support for joins, geo-queries, full-text,...
Apparently the answer is that it will break currently scripts that aren’t defensively coded. I say that is a very worrying thing, Oracle is trying to be the database, surely this is the kind of thing that you must constantly improve, otherwise your product will die the death of a thousand cuts.
A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.
Your job may suck, but you should still be actively attempting to stay engaged and manage your own happiness.
So we have the ability to stop asking people what timezone they’re in by relying on the time on the device. Here’s a method that works well.
We help people visualize and analyze geospatial data From polygons to points. From hundreds to millions. No limits with CartoDB.
rdtsc’s law of failing large companies: "a large enough failing company, with a power crazy CEO is indistinguishable from a TV show"
lolcommits takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. Git blame has never been so much fun. (via lolcommits: git webcam=lulz.)
I see comments every once and awhile that sound something like, "I’ve downloaded Node, now what?" This tutorial answers that question and explains how to get started from the very beginning.
Are you in a software development team, trying to be agile? Next time the team gets together, ask: How do we feel about the quality of our code?
Now we live in an amazing, amazing world with so many fascinating frameworks to choose from and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don’t care, because this is what people are like now – they’ve got their framework of choice and they’re like "uh! It won’t..."
This article is about Character Encodings or Character Sets. Let’s work through an example to understand the topic.
In this article, I’m going to show you a pretty powerful set of tools for scraping web content quickly and easily using Javascript and Node.js.
I still look back on that young candidate who was rejected because of some bogus score on a discriminatory test that ultimately means little or nothing.
retina.js is an open source script that makes it easy to serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays
In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. Additionally, I’ll share some tips and considerations on designing flat interfaces.
Young companies die by the hundreds in Silicon Valley, but you would hardly know it by reading your local blog. Flowtab, now a shuttered product, did something following its demise that I’ve never seen before — released a death chronicle of sorts. Their timeline and notes showcase the mistakes that the company made during its short life. Contracts, failed television appearances, deals that fell through, and more were published. If you work in technology, it’s a compelling set of documents.
Who’d have thought a company would shock the world and release a logo made in Microsoft WordArt?!
Detta är alla APIer i katalogen. Letar du efter något speciellt så använd sökfältet högst upp på sidan och saknar du något så tveka inte att lägga till ett nytt API.
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
But I’m not writing this post to debate whether Silicon Valley North exists or is a worthy aspiration. Rather I want to make a case for why Silicon Valley companies that are looking to launch in Canada should be turning their sights due north and making Vancouver their Canadian headquarters.
Their greatest difficulty is not in initiating projects but in choosing among so many possibilities, setting realistic boundaries, establishing priorities and correctly assessing resources.
PLEASE DON’T pitch a startup concept showing boring mockups and fancy power points. Because a hackathon should be all about hack and fun!
david-bieber: I’ve written in the past about what a Code@Night is. And they’re wonderful. One of my favorite topics, really. People come to these things and they just code all night. Great experience. Tons of fun. Fruit. PacMan. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I tell people this all the time, and a pretty common... (via david-bieber)
Ett av dem är East Sweden Hack som går av stapeln den 14-15 september i Linköping. Hacket arrangeras av talangföretaget Skill i samarbete med en rad aktörer i regionen. Där är uppdraget att skapa applikationer och webbtjänster som gynnar invånare och besökare i Östergötland. Bland vinsterna finns resa, boende och inträde till konferensen Le Web i Paris.
n this tutorial, I’m going to walk through writing a simple blog app with Angular and Express. For this, I’m assuming basic knowledge of Angular and Node. If you’re new to Angular, I highly recommend that you check out the AngularJS homepage first.
All joking aside, our communities need to hear from people who aren’t the maintainers and conference speakers and web celebrities. We need to hear from people who give zero fucks, who never worry about their Klout scores or how many people starred their repo. The big names create an echo chamber where ideas are safe and popular and failure and being wrong are covered up so no one else can learn from them. We don’t really badly need any more of that crap. We need you.
NO!!! seriously, you really shouldn’t
I have just spent an awesome and inspiring weekend at East Sweden Hack 2013, hacking at our project Inspirr.
VARFÖR sätts nya medlemmar så ofta på "enkla" uppgifter tills du blivit produktiv och kan göra "riktigt" arbete, ensamma?
Sverige var en gång världens mest spännande it-land. När industrisamhället hade börjat tappa fart stod en ny, hyperkreativ världselit av visionära ingenjörer och entreprenörer redo att kugga i. Det var då tre sorglustiga ministrar klapprade in på Rosenbad och kortslöt utvecklingen. "Vi ska inte jaga en hel ungdomsgeneration", sa statsministern – och vände en hel generation blivande digitala samhällsbyggare ryggen. "Vi är inte heller helt oskyldiga, hehe", flinade utrikesministern om NSA-skandalen – dagarna innan Sverige avslöjades vara Igor med USA:s Frankenstein.
However, for a complex application, the order for creating the objects is rarely obvious. Usually, you must consult the database designer or a diagram of the design.
Our endless bickering over the merits of different languages and paradigms isn’t all that productive, nor is it very interesting. You’re not a Ruby/C#/Java/Elixir developer, you’re a goddamn problem solver. Remove the programming language from your LinkedIn/Twitter bio, that’s not who you are.
Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar
Viktigast, anser han däremot, är att öppna upp biljettförsäljningen till tredjeparter, som skulle tjäna pengar genom att få en del av försäljningssumman. - Den riktiga kraften hos tredjeparter kommer bli synlig först när det är möjligt att sälja och distribuera biljetter med hjälp av api:er, säger han.
Despite what Facebook thinks, it’s not impossible to build performant websites. It may not be easy, but it’s not out of our grasp. We just have to work a little bit harder to make it happen. Technically, we’ve got the power to make our sites feel faster, more modern, and overall better experiences.
Keyboard navigation has a major downside: it’s not clear where the focus moves upon pressing the Tab key. Animation makes the transition more apparent.
I see the iPhone 5S and whatever follows as logical desktop replacements. They, and phones like them, will be the death of the PC.
Michael Kazarnowizc tror att vi är på väg in i ett nytt klassamhälle där förmågan att kritiskt granska och bedöma sanningshalten i bilder och information står högt i kurs. Klasserna kommer inte skiljas åt på grund av inkomst som i industrisamhället. Informationshantering och uppbyggd trovärdighet samt förmåga att använda teknik är faktorer som kommer att påverka.
With Q&A, however, Microsoft "started with just a pure design view," Netz said. That meant the design team sat in a room for weeks and thought about how to make the user experience as simple and addictive as possible.
If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying No. Not ‘maybe’ or ‘later’. The only word is No.
Ericssons ledarskapsprogram blev den kick hon hade drömt om, med resor över hela världen. – Vi skickades till fem olika toppuniversitet och fick lära oss om allt från telekom till ledarskap och strategiutveckling, det var riktigt bra, säger Maha Bouzeid. Sedan dess har det blivit USA, Finland, Malaysia, Australien, Filippinerna, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indien, Kina, Indonesien, Singapore, Qatar, Bahrain, Dubai.
Today, Zookal, a textbook rental startup, is announcing that by using unmanned aerial vehicles to ferry textbooks to renters, it will cut delivery times from two to three days down to a matter of minutes, while shaving shipping costs down to a tenth of their normal prices.
Almost every custom theme I develop with WordPress requires a Management Team or Meet the Team page. If I had to guess, I’d say that I’ve built just around 50 different setups. It occurred to me that their must be many other WordPress developers out there creating similar systems as well. For this reason, I’ll share the approach I typically use to build and manage a "Meet The Team" page in WordPress.
Recently AngularJS, an MVC style JavaScript framework from Google, has been gaining more momentum. I’ve been curious about it for awhile and when I read this article recently, I decided it was finally time to give it a whirl. I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.
Most of the stuff I just talked about has one common thread and it’s that your customers, your users, those people on the other side of the screen – they’re humans too. They love it when people make them feel special. They want to feel like they’re a part of something bigger than themselves.
Det finns två skillnader mellan den övervakning som görs av staten och den informationsinsamling som privata företag gör. Du kan inte välja bort statlig övervakning. Du kan välja bort att använda privata företags tjänster.
So, you want to ditch the corporate life and go work for a startup. Cool, but do you really understand what that would mean?
Det är startup-företag och offentlig sektor som driver utvecklingen framåt på området öppna api:er. Åtminstone i Sverige. Internationellt kommer nu även storbolagen.
Bottom line is: when you find #000000 in your color picker, ask yourself if you really want pure black. You’re probably better off with something more natural. And if you’re feeling adventurous, try staying away from the left edge of the color picker altogether.
It’s been 6 months now since I moved from Amsterdam to Asia to work remotely. I chose Thailand for its low-cost of living and safety. Since my visa will run out soon, I’ll have to leave the country and I’d like to sum up what I learnt from working here over the past 6 months and if it might be an option for more people.
The peculiar thing about programmers is that they’re the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they’re the one profession that doesn’t. Of course there are exceptions, but on my travels I didn’t meet another programmer doing anything similar; a sad state of affairs.
If you feel mediocre then you probably aren’t being challenged enough in the role you are currently in.
Sir Trevor is rich content editing entirely re-imagined for the web: an intuitive editor for web content which does not presuppose anything about how it will be rendered.
I once observed what was probably the worst daily scrum ever. Just when I thought it was over, something interesting happened.
Men lika länge som jag har bevakat den svenska startupscenen, lika länge har jag förundrats över den likriktning som finns inom den. De flesta av företagen på Internetworlds entreprenörslista består av män, eller är extremt mansdominerade. Det trots att vi varje år anlitar Rättviseförmedlingen och aktivt söker i olika nätverk för att hitta kvinnliga entreprenörer. Och trots att företagens tjänster och produkter har en kundkrets som består av både kvinnor och män.
Planning your next retrospective? Get started with a random plan, tweak it, print it and share the URL. Or just browse around for new ideas!
Malmö är en entreprenörstad där de amerikanska jättarna och en öppen kultur bidragit till miljön. En ny generation startup-företag samlas bland stadens gränder, byggd på exitpengar från förr.
I die a little bit inside when people say "should we do Agile or not". The assumptions behind this question are all wrong
ifvisible.js Crosbrowser & lightweight way to check if user is looking at the page or interacting with it.
Christofer Karltorp och Taaniel Jakobs har gjort mycket för att hålla sin startup Zerply vid liv. Som att köra taxi i San Francisco och sälja sina egna kontorsmöbler. Följ med när Internetworld träffar dem i ett "hacker-hus" i San Francisco.
Enklast förklarat är det ett ord som beskriver automatisering av tre olika närbesläktade verksamheter, nämligen: Utveckling Drift Test (QA)
Här är fem tydliga trender vi ser i ett av världens just nu mest spännande startup-klimat.
Sweden has this great potential in going big from the beginning. If you have the money you can use your local market as a test bed, but when launching we Swedes need to go big and don’t be so small in mindset. We have the knowledge, we have the innovative ideas and we have the people. So let’s start to go big.
While this is not required, I have chosen to re-install my mac from scratch with the new OS X Mavericks. This gave me the opportunity to correct a few less smart decisions i took previously. Here I’ll describe the process it took for me, to get OS X Mavericks properly running - skip the reinstall part, if you just want to upgrade using the App Store.
Oracle har ett särskilt intresse av att lösa problemen, eftersom webbsajten bygger på program från Oracle.
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
Everpix was great. This is how it died.
Facebook doesn’t need your design help. But there are many other companies that do.
It bears repeating that ultimately what failed Everpix was the belief that they should be The Next Facebook (or even Instagram?).
Developing a product is one thing, bringing it to market is another. In this article, Rachel explains how to start with a new product, develop and support it over time.
När du blir varm i kläderna finns det möglighet
For example, word2vec allows you to evaluate a query like King - Man Woman and get the result Queen. This means you can do some totally new searches.
First of all, congratulations on your recent acquisition of an ENTP! You will find that the ENTP is a friendly, loyal, and valuable companion who, with regular care, will become a cherished part of your life. The following tips will help you take...
Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, beautiful shrines, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason practically none of this mastery has been translated into digital products, in particular websites, most of which look like they hail from around 1998.
If you want to create a culture of co-operation, but your incentives reward individual performance, it will not happen. If you want a culture of innovation, but you punish for errors, it will not happen.
Det är absurt att it-systemen inte är ett stöd i arbetet utan ofta en stresskälla, skriver Karin Lindström.
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
The dream, the vision even, is you step up to a microwave at a friend’s house, a cafeteria, a dormitory, the office lunch room, you reach for the standards-based common UI and operate it by muscle memory.
A bad job is like an unhealthy relationship. Truthfully, the only reason you’re there is because it is the safest and easiest thing you know. Any job or relationship that allows for you to get comfortable should be avoided at all costs. The last scenario you could ever want is becoming like the rest of those miserable 40-somethings faced with weekends of minivans and soccer practice.
DigitalOcean sucks. And rocks. This is an article reviewing the pro’s and con’s on Digital Ocean after 1 year of usage.
After all, undo might be ubiquitous on the desktop, but when was the last time you saw a web app with an undo command?
At POP, our site is entirely API driven. We separated our frontend codebase from our backend API in it’s entirety. The two sites are even in separate repositories. There are several reasons we decided to use this architecture which I’ll cover below.
If you’ve ever argued with your team about the way your JSON responses should be formatted, JSON API is your anti-bikeshedding weapon. By following shared conventions, you can increase productivity, take advantage of generalized tooling, and focus on what matters: your application.
But there’s a twist to this Java renaissance. It encompasses more than just Java.
An attendee raised her hand and said "I’ve been wondering when you would mention responsive web design. We’re going to use responsive design." I responded "Well, responsive design won’t fix your content problem."
Hand crafted, scalable vector icons for designers and developers.
We believe being able to grow, learn new skills and achieving mastery is a big part of what motivates a person. Those things are also important in our fast-paced world where our surroundings (market, competitors, technology) and Spotify itself changes all the time. We need employees that are eager to learn, that are open to change and that want to take on bigger challenges as they and the company grow.
As is the natural human wont, advocates of particular SQL-on-Hadoop solutions tend to emphasize favorable performance results derived from advantageous test settings, failing to explain the whole picture, including results across the full set of ordinary queries.
People don’t want a general-purpose framework for logging and visualising their progress towards personal goals. They want an app that tells them not to eat the donut, that they lost 2lbs this week, or that they just achieved their personal best running time.
Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make.
Trevolta.com is a global crowd-funded travels website. We enable travellers to submit their extraordinary ideas for expeditions in order to raise funds for it. Projects can be backed up by inspired people or sponsors looking for marketing opportunities and brand awareness.
Stop telling yourself that you can’t come up with business startup ideas. You can, and here are 6 proven methods to do just that.
The people who came up with TDD are deserving of every respect, which I haven’t always given them. I decided to start with that this time just to make it clear. TDD is a flippin’ awesome practice.
If you are looking for a job you love where you are engaged and challenged, you need to look further than compensation. For employers, get employee feedback on a regular basis. Then, listen and act.
A month on from the launch of iOS 7, creatives have had time for the new OS to bed in mentally, so thought we’d find out how leading designers think Apple’s brighter outlook will impact design, and get their advice on how designers can brighten up their work.
I can offer some advice about how to not come off as a total creeper in various situations and how to use your extroversion or introversion to your advantage.
Perhaps for a self-learner a nice approach is to write it yourself and then go searching for a solution. That way you’ll likely: validate what you did, figure out that you missed a detail or perhaps learn some new
DynoSRC loads JavaScript files inline in your HTML response, then stores them in localStorage. You can even inline the DynoSRC client lib, eliminating all HTTP requests for JavaScript on your site.
why would you ever need to take a substring of someone’s name, or a poem, or the Russian word for "Banana"?
– För några år sedan betraktades vi ofta som mjukisar när vi kom ut till företagen och talade för att få in användarperspektivet. En gång blev jag så arg så jag sa att jag hatar människor men älskar pengar och det enda sättet att tjäna pengar är att göra det enkelt för människor, säger Johan Berndtsson, användbarhetsexpert och en av grundarna till Inuse.
Remember, at an interview, it’s not just the company deciding if you’re right for the team — you get to decide if they feel like the right fit for you.
Spotscale is a company based in Linköping, founded by Ludvig Emgård and Jonas Lindqvist. They started out back in January 2013, by developing products to build hyper-local 3D models of buildings, blocks and surroundings captured using hexacopters. Through extensive experience of 3D mapping and multi-rotor helicopters – the company have already managed to land 15 customers using their products.
Your daily dose of design inspiration.
– Varje stad har olika förutsättningar. Men att du har utvecklare, ett hem för gemenskapen med event och möten, och någon som dokumenterar allt och är en spindel i allt som händer är otroligt viktiga delar.
Tiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla Javascript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything.
Taking you from the very basics (drawing a primitive mouse-following-line on canvas), all the way to those harmony brushes, with their sophisticated curves and strokes, spanning from the edges and curling around into weirdly beautiful structures. The tutorial pretty much reflects my own path of exploration.
Yes, I’m aware you need to asses my technical skills, however, I’m not going to work for free. If I want to do that, I’ll hack on some open source something or other that takes my fancy.
Github är en av nätets mest populära webbplatser för att dela med sig av programkod. Nu hoppas den svenska Pensionsmyndigheten kunna dra nytta av det för att stärka sin egen interna utveckling. Sedan en dryg vecka tillbaka delar myndighetens utvecklare med sig av egenutvecklad kod på sajten.
Guesstimates by analysts put the number of mobile app downloads this year at somewhere between 56 and 82 billion, with the average user downloading somewhere between 26 and 41 apps, with a smaller subset of those apps being used on a regular basis. Other numbers indicate that 95% of downloaded apps are abandoned within a month and 26% of apps are only used once.
Foster a culture of cross-pollination: Developers who see each other’s code have more consistent code than developers who just see their own code. Pair programming, code reviews and tech sharing sessions all foster cross-pollination.
What does Imgur, one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web, want to be when it grows up? Television.
De svenska it-konsultbolagen är mer optimistiska än på många år. Detta enligt en stor undersökning som gjorts bland de svenska konsulterna. "It är grejen i framtiden", säger Lars Stugemo på HiQ.
If bitcoin gets traction, it will effectively ruin any financial privacy we have remaining. It’s one thing for a government to have access to this, it’s a whole other world of problems when everyone from my neighbor to my cable company has access to it.
As someone leading the engineering efforts for a shipping and logistics company I wasn’t too happy initially to see Mongodb being used as the primary datastore but after 2 years I’m more than sure that this was definitely the datastore for us.
Tweets från hösten 2013. Peter Lindberg
It does not look that bad actually. Your list lacks Oracle, Microsoft technologies to really complain about inefficient usage of public money.
Programmers like learning new languages (many spend their spare time working on new things), so giving developers the opportunity to learn new things on work time seems like a good move for many reasons:
Affärssystem är ett lika generellt ord som "bil", som kan åsyfta allt från en gammal Fiat till en Rolls Royce.
Replace anything you want in your social feeds with things you’d rather see, like cats.
Sourcing.io will help you identify the best software engineers for your company. We have a database of over four million developers, and let you cut & slice that data in various ways, such as filtering by engineers by skill, location, whether they work at a top company, or are connected to someone in your team.
Updating the IFTTT app will unlock a new channel—iOS location—that lets users trigger events when entering or exiting a geographic plot of their specification
Det lönar sig inte att bli för långvarig på en arbetsplats för då blir du tagen för given. Bästa förhandlingsläget har man när man byter jobb.
To managers I would say, judge people by results, by working software, not by how hard they appear to be working. Counter intuitively, it may be better not to sit with your developers, you may get a better idea of their output unaffected by conventional/intuitive indicators.
Myth lets you write pure CSS while still giving you the benefits of tools like LESS and Sass. You can still use variables and math functions, just like you do in preprocessors. It’s like a polyfill for future versions of the spec.
Promises have arrived natively in JavaScript!
Svenska Spotscale klämmer in två av årets hetaste trender i en och samma produkt. Med hjälp av drönare kan företaget skapa en 3d-modell av en byggnad eller ett kvarter. Modellen kan sedan skrivas ut i fyrfärg av en 3d-skrivare. (via Drönare gör...
As we near the end of 2013, Foundation is rapidly becoming more popular with front-end developers and the demand for WordPress themes is also increasing. In addition to the 10 free themes included in this article, Foundation-based themes are popping up on Themeforest and other commercial sites.
The only time you should swallow exceptions (catch{..} or catch(Exception){...}) is in your global exception handler to avoid truly fundamental issues (and recursive global exception handling).
It is the one million (actually more likely to be a few billion) dollar question: how is LEGO going to exploit the possibilities offered by 3D printing?
These cutting-edge pizza boxes should be standard-issue.
Our deploys are ridiculous now. Combined with our custom Capistrano recipes, they’re very fast. Here’s what we do. First we send the existing Unicorn master a USR2 signal. This tells it to begin starting a new master process, reloading all our app code. When the new master is fully loaded it forks all the workers it needs. The first worker forked notices there is still an old master and sends it a QUIT signal. When the old master receives the QUIT, it starts gracefully shutting down its workers. Once all the workers have finished serving requests, it dies. We now have a fresh version of our app, fully loaded and ready to receive requests, without any downtime: the old and new workers all share the Unix Domain Socket so nginx doesn’t have to even care about the transition.
Many people say "just use defer" or "just use async" or others say "just put your javascript at bottom of page". None of the above are solutions to the problem of actually allowing a webpage to fully load and then (and only then) loading external JS. Nor will any of the above always get you past that "Defer loading of javascript" warning you are getting from the Google page speed tool. This solution will and is the recommended solution from the Google help pages.
Launch Effect is a free responsive one-page WordPress theme that lets you create a viral campaign in minutes.
A contract is an assertion in the code. If a contract is violated (hence if the condition asserted is false) we consider that there must be a bug.
This is a complete tutorial, and indeed a reference, on Handlebars.js templating and, principally, JavaScript templating.