Happy Monday! As always, we send a list of our new posts at the beginning of the week, and this week we have two posts we want to share: 1. A CTO’s guide to crushing an interview for a job in tech (apart from coding) 2. Better code structure: working with pods Have a great week!
Read moreUsually we organize our javascript apps either by what they are or by what they do. The first is like rails: separate directories like components, containers, reducers, etc. And the second more or less like feature/DDD: user, cart, and so on. Tho both of these options are very mainstream and solid they contain some constraints. When you structure the code…
Read moreWorld Economic Forum recently published an article that Lisbon was aimingat becoming the next unexpected tech hub in Europe, just like Ireland has become the last decade. Lisbon is a great city with an increasing number of tech startups, now hosting the Web Summit, and the government recently made an investment fund of 200 million for…
Read moreI’m faced with a design challenge everyday. Sweet! I like it. It’s fun and rewarding to find a solution, if that’s your thing. Like working on a puzzle: finding all the pieces, recognizing what’s their right position, joining them one by one, and finalizing with a composition that only makes sense when everything is together.…
Read moreI usually start by saying that I’ve been a designer for the last 15 years, UI designer. “What’s UI?” I get that question a lot, can’t help but smile. “User Interface,” I respond, trying to answer the question in a few words, “is the visual part of an app. You see, the engineers will write the…
Read moreDo you want to become a Chief Technology Officer, or are you just curious about the role? If you want your keyboard to remain your closest friend, you can stop reading right here, being a CTO is much more than just being a talented developer. But if you want to get some insights from three…
Read moreBarcelona startup EDpuzzle went through Y-combinator’s Edtech program imagine K12. A lot of Spanish entrepreneurs go to the US to expand their markets. It’s normal, it’s the right thing to do for most companies. But usually you take with you a portfolio of achievements and milestones from the country you started up in. Not EDpuzzle, according…
Read moreSmart parking is one of the easiest ways humans can make cities more sustainable. The term smart city has become quite popular the last years. The expression indicates an urban area that, thanks to the use of advanced technology, isable to deal with a wide range of the citizen problems and needs in an innovative…
Read moreWhen we decided we needed to redo the itnig website from scratch we managed to synthesize our needs in three words. Fast, simple and reliable. Is there anything faster, simpler and more reliable than static html? Writing a static html page in the dynamic world we live in was out of the question but we…
Read moreHacker schools or bootcamps are getting more and more popular. You’ll learn a programming language in 2–3 months, and you’re more or less guarantied a full-time well paying job. If you compare this to signing up to a four-year degree at a University and getting tons of study loan, the short-cut through a hacker school…
Read moreAndreessen Horowitz, the $4 billion venture capital firm (yes, the one that invested in companies such as Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook and Airbnb, among many others), published last January their top 16 tech trends here, and guess what? Virtual Reality is #1. Many of us lived the Virtual Reality (VR) hype through the 90’s and the…
Read moreOn Tuesday, February 10 begins the FREE Catdroid Android Study Jam at itnig. During 7 weeks, 20 developers will meet in our offices to learn together, solve questions and go through the main issues of the Udacity course “Developing Android Apps — Android Fundamentals” by Google. Although these developers are truly beginners on Android, they should have at least…
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