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News

11/30/2016

NodeConf Ar 2016 – Day 2

Node on the Desktop, Internet of peers, Continuous Security and more.

This conference is a not-for-profit community effort to push Node.js forward in Argentina. As Node.js early adopters and frequent users, we could not miss it. Here is an overview of Day 2 of the NodeConfAr. Among others, we enjoyed a unique talk about killing humans and a spiky debate about the evolution of languages.

News

11/22/2016

NodeConf AR 2016 – Day 1

Noders, JavaScripters, programmers from all over the world.

First day of the first NodeConf held in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 One of the biggest conferences to push Node.js & JavaScript forward in Argentina & Latin America. Here is an overview of the latest updates related to node.js, and links to the technical and inspirational talks of the day. The community is growing!

Agile

11/16/2016

Be Agile, not chaotic

A short story about panic, uncertainty, and continuous delivery.

I know from experience that Agile methodologies are important, not just trendy. This is my experience working in a software project where things started small and all worked fine at first. But when the scope and team started to grow, the lack of Agile organization turned the project into chaos. All until one day, we decided it was going to change.

Enterprise

10/12/2016

From raw data to actionable insights

Introducing Pentaho

Data offers a ridiculously important competitive advantage to those who know how to use it. To transform raw data into actionable insights and improve decision-making, we use Pentaho Data Integration. It is a powerful ETL tool to overcome the limits of scripts based synchronization. Here is an introduction to Pentaho.

Web Technologies

08/22/2016

10 Good reasons to use Graph Databases

Because in the real world, things work connected

Most of the problems we face are real world abstractions, and it happens to be that in the real world, things work connected. This is why we should consider using graph databases instead of the classic relational model. We’ll see how it impacts performance, visualization, structures, simple querying, and transactions.

Enterprise

09/24/2015

Docker everything

Introducing Docker’s features through a real life example

We too often had to set up the context to deploy an application, and then replicate this into another server. That was until Docker’s magic came to the rescue! This is an introduction to some of Docker’s features applied to a real-life scenario: how to install two Apache Web Servers using different source folders.

Web Technologies

08/25/2015

Multiple Named Views in AngularJS

Using Angular UI router

Angular-ui-router is a powerful tool to reduce complexity when dealing with application states. Here is an example of how to exploit it efficiently by defining hierarchies and multiple views. Snippets included! We recommend giving this interesting feature a try.

Web Technologies

08/10/2015

Build responsive websites more easily

Tips and tools to work efficiently with the grid system

Ease the development of responsive websites using Twitter Bootstrap grids correctly. If you use Twitter Bootstrap sass or less version, then you can take advantage of the mixins. Using this approach you can create more semantic css classes and make grids easier to maintain. We also give you a tool to debug your grids!