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10 things you need to know to become a better tech recruiter
HR Tips Emma Tracey
We talk to hundreds of developers each week. Over the course of 2016, we have gathered lots of interesting information about salaries, job expectations and technical preferences. We bundled it all together into this handy blog post so that your developer hiring in 2017 is smoother than ever.
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Scout24 talks about startup life in Munich
Interviews Frederik Bohn
Scout24 operates leading digital classified platforms, including AutoScout24 and ImmobilienScout24, in Germany and other selected European countries. We talked to Luiz Scheidegger, Head of Technology - Core Experience, and Boris Danne, Business Development Manager, from AutoScout24. They filled us startup life, the demand for software developers in Munich and how it feels to be part of one of city’s biggest tech successes.
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What is machine learning and how will it impact future jobs?
Developer Careers Kado Damball
With the rise of automation in nearly every industry, there is still a considerable debate on the nature of jobs responsible for the automation. Jobs can vary from linguistics in natural language processing, predictive modeling in data mining to software engineers in self-driving cars. However, there has to be some underlying distinction between the jobs, at least as far as machine learning (ML) is concerned.
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What's it like to work at Wercker?
Interviews Hugo Duksis
Andy Smith is CTO at Wercker, an Amsterdam-based tech company providing a continuous delivery system using containers. Andy joined Wercker two and half years ago and oversaw the transition of the platform from LXC to Docker. When hiring developers, Andy pays special tribute to open source contributions, valuing a broad portfolio of open source projects.
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The most remarkable women in tech history
Developer Careers Johanna Dahlroos
Ada Lovelace is a household name for most technology enthusiasts, but when asked to name other influential women in technology, this often turns out to be quite challenging. Technology and science have traditionally been considered male-dominated fields, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that only 12% of engineers are women, despite of the fact that women make up 47% of the total work force.
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If Hemingway Wrote Javascript by Angus Croll — Excerpt
Developer Careers Emma Tracey
JavaScript is both bizarre and beautiful. It is a language in which 0.1 + 0.2 is not equal to 0.3. But It is also the most used language for open source contributions on GitHub. Inspired by the infinite quirks of JavaScript, Angus Croll, the creator of popular blog JavaScript JavaScript, authored If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, a book in which he imagines 25 famous novelists, poets and playwrights solving simple problems in JavaScript.
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What is Agile software development?
Developer Careers Sasha Pliusnina
The term Agile first appeared in 2001 in the Agile Manifesto. Agile prioritizes short iterations, early delivery, continuous integration, and fast responses to market changes and customers feedback. Since that time, Agile has become incredibly popular and is used by companies such as Google, Electronic Arts, Salesforce and Amazon.
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45 Ruby blogs you need to check out!
Developer Careers Sasha Pliusnina
Ruby was developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro Matsumoto, as an object-oriented scripting language, which was more robust and flexible than either Python or Perl. The release of the Rails framework in 2004 catapulted Ruby to fame outside Japan and since then a passionate open-source community has developed. Today the language is used in production at many tech companies.
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What are the most popular Javascript frameworks and libraries?
Developer Careers Kathrine Nicolaisen
Frontend development tools have come a long way in the last few years. CSS preprocessors, JavaScript libraries and frameworks, and JavaScript testing tools improve workflow, speed up development and provide greater possibilities for responsive design.
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Behind the Curtains of Software Development and How It Resembles Theatre
HR Tips Janet Todorova
Have you ever wondered how software is built? Here is an attempt to explain software development by using an analogy with theatre. Let’s imagine we have a theatre production to stage and a software product to launch. The theatre art has some surprising similarities with software development.
