[hack day] Video Wall
03 June 2014
Not happy with a 48” monitor for your presentation? No problem - just share your desktop across a 3x3 bank of them, and the whole world can watch!
Read more about "[hack day] Video Wall"03 June 2014
Not happy with a 48” monitor for your presentation? No problem - just share your desktop across a 3x3 bank of them, and the whole world can watch!
Read more about "[hack day] Video Wall"You’re lazy, you don’t want to walk all the way to the kitchen to find there’s no milk, right? Well, with this Talis hardware hack, you don’t have to…
Read more about "Got Milk"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ~ John Cleese
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice and in recognition of this we’ve been trying to make sure that we give ourselves more time to creatively explore ideas as a team.
Read more about "Talis Hardware Hack (May 2014)"Want to run the Android emulator on Mac OS X and NOT have to go make coffee while it starts up? Then read on…
Read more about "Turbocharge the Android emulator"We all know there’s a load of smartphone hardware out there and that testing our apps in the real world is therefore hard. But there are steps you can take that put you on the road to Continuous Integration that will make your life easier…
Read more about "iOS Testing Recipe: A bit of Cucumber and some Gherkin"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first wood-pecker that came along would destroy civilization ~ Gerald Weinberg
Tracking down a problem in a rich client application is hard when you can’t see what your user is seeing and experiencing. Worse, when the errors are raised they exist only in the context of the users browser, where we, as the developers of the code can’t get to them. This post describes how we get around this problem at Talis in our AngularJS apps using stacktrace.js to help us.
Read more about "Logging client side errors server-side in AngularJS"03 February 2014
It’s tempting with modern mobile toolchains and workflows to stick with the simulator/emulator during development, but there are pitfalls to delaying testing on real hardware!
Read more about "Keep the UI fluid: Test On-device"31 January 2014
Learn how to handle token-based API access with AngularJS in an elegant, Don’t Repeat Yourself manner by globally transforming requests and handling failure and token re-issue using response interceptors.
Read more about "Elegant token-based API access with AngularJS"26 January 2014
Your job as a developer isn’t to just develop, it’s to continually learn how to develop better ~ Paul Irish
Automating repetitive tasks is fun and reduces the time and errors associated with tasks that must be performed over and over again, consequently freeing up time for you to focus on the problems you really want to solve.
Read more about "Development workflow automation with Gruntjs"Stuck with working out how to optimize your DB? Maybe your Rails app isn’t scaling and you’d like some advice on what to do? Well never fear, because Never Lunch Solo is here.
Read more about "Hackday: Never Lunch Solo"