HR Tips Ewe Grajko
If you haven’t so far, it might be the right time to think about hiring junior developers. With the help of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) you can now get a grant to support your new “Innovationsassistent”.
Interviews Sasha Pliusnina
Two topics which always capture the attention of the IT-community are the future of programming languages and diversity in tech. We decided to combine these two areas, and asked some awesome female developers about their opinion on the future of programming.
Let’s see what they had to say…
Interviews Emma Tracey
Peter Loveday became CTO of zanox, Europe’s largest affiliate marketing network, in 2014. With the new role he inherited two tightly coupled legacy platforms - one built on Java, one on PHP. With his distributed team of 60 engineers, he is simplifying the technology by focusing future development around one platform and then separating the system into distinct services. Loveday’s approach to engineering culture is about facilitation, pragmatism and a healthy skepticism of buzzwords.
Developer Careers Kathrine Nicolaisen
With a fast growing start-up and tech scene, what does Hamburg have to offer developers? Well: A lot apparently! This list covers the most exciting developer conferences in Hamburg, as well as some pretty interesting meetups, seminars and smaller events. Ranging from UX to Python to more political matters such as diversity in Tech - There should be something to satisfy the needs of the most discerning hacker-heart.
Interviews Emma Tracey
If anyone knows what it takes to build a successful startup in Hamburg, it’s Stephan Uhrenbacher, CEO and now Founder of FLIO - the global airport app. Uhrenbacher previously founded Qype, Europe’s largest local review site. He sold it to Yelp in 2012 for €50 million and has since founded short term lettings platform 9flats.com and Germany’s leading eco market place avocadostore.de.
Research Emma Tracey
When you think of startups in Germany, the first thing that comes to mind is Berlin. What is often forgotten is Hamburg, the leafy, fiercely proud port city in Germany’s north west. A city with a vibrant history of trade and media is slowly and silently developing as a tech hub in its own right. More understated than Munich, a lot friendlier than Berlin, and with a strong regional character of its own, Hamburg has a lot to offer entrepreneurs.
Developer Careers Giovanni Capuano
An introduction to errors and exceptions handling using Rust as example.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Ubilabs are specialists in interactive map applications. The Hamburg-based company is continuously pushing the boundaries, from mapping Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan to creating a Street View of the world’s largest model railway. At the technical helm is Martin Kleppe, Head of Development and a passionate developer and active member of JS community.
Developer Careers Emma Tracey
We hosted our first tech meetup last Wednesday, to a packed crowd of about 65 developers, in the new offices of TechCode near Alexanderplatz. GraphQL was the topic and we had three talks from Oleg Iiyenko, author of Sangria, a Scala GraphQL implementation, Johannes Schickling, Co-founder of Graph.cool and Yann Simon, a Scala backend developer.