In this article I will give a quick overview of how to spot UX problems in your product and fix them quickly and effectively. UX — what’s it all about? Let’s imagine — you have launched your product and are quite happy with it. And then suddenly you hear everyone talk about UX, which gets you wondering: what is UX?…
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10 Sept 2017
19 Jul 2017
What is a slug? The term “slug” comes from the world of newspaper production. If you have ever created a simple “Blog” application you have already reinvented it. When you need to access any post at some URL you need to identify it somehow. The simplest idea is to identify them by id, but that does not seem too pretty.…
8 Jul 2017
Some time ago I was faced with a task of testing a bash script. At first I decided to use Python unit-tests, however, I was reluctant to bring external technologies to the project. Therefore I had to go with the testing framework written in the notorious bash. Overview of the existing solutions After googling available solutions, I was presented with…
12 Jun 2017
When npm@5 was just released this question was the first one I have googled. No doubts it comes to mind since new npm version introduced a lot of yarn’s features. In other words: should I still use yarn after installing npm@5? Yarn features Why do people use yarn in the first place? npm had some known issues. Well, we all…
2 Jun 2017
We have already published how to generate mock data with the help of a Python library — Mimesis . The article you are reading now is the continuation of the previous one, therefore, we will not be going over the basics again. In case you missed out on the first article or you felt lazy at the time, you might…
24 May 2017
The ability to generate mock but valid data comes in handy in app development, where you need to work with databases. Filling in the database by hand is a time-consuming and tedious process, which can be done in three stages — gathering necessary information, post-processing the data and coding the data generator itself. It gets really complicated when you need…
14 May 2017
Phoenix Framework always has been awesome. But it was never as awesome as the new 1.3 release (which is rc1 right now actually). There are a lot of significant changes. Chris McCord made a great job writing a complete migrating guide . Inspired by it and by the talk Chris gave at the LonestarElixir this article will try to guide…
20 Apr 2017
There is an overwhelming amount of books available today for UX (user experience) professionals of all levels. In this post I will share the books that helped me get started in UX. The following books got me hooked on the idea of working in UX and educating myself on the topic. They helped me shape an idea of what UX…
1 Apr 2017
Organize Django settings into multiple files and directories. Easily override and modify settings. Use wildcards and optional settings files. Managing Django’s settings might be tricky. There are severals issues which are encountered by any Django developer along the way. First one is caused by the default project structure. Django clearly offers us a single settings.py file. It seams reasonable at…