Today’s children are exposed to technology from a very young age, and on many occasions, 2-year-olds seem to understand the iPad better than adults. Is this enough to encourage and influence them to pursue a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)? A few months ago, Women at eBay UK organized a “Family Fun…
Got a problem? Spend some time writing a script to do it for you. Got a bigger problem? Write a service that fixes it for you. Want to solve problems with software engineering? Use Token Jobs. A developer in the wild can be confronted by many problems. Some of these problems will be slow or repetitive…
Shutl has been running an initiative called Swapping Fridays. This involves software engineers and customer service agents swapping roles for a day. This article discusses how the initiative was run, the objectives and outcomes, and some challenges that were encountered along the way.
We work with multiple distributed teams. To keep everyone on the same page, we built an automatic tool called ShipShip to help keep information flowing.
As a React application grows, it is important to ensure that all the components continue to work together. Using Enzyme, we created an integration testing framework that tests a React application in its entirety, without relying on a server. The result was a lightning fast integration test suite that gives us high confidence that the critical paths of our application are always working.
At Shutl, we strive to be as agile as possible in our daily work. Being agile is not about using coloured post-it notes, having stand-up meetings, or about writing code like a headless chicken. Being agile is about adaptation: an agile team is able to constantly adapt to the environment despite time pressures, demanding clients,…
Functional Programming is more than a set of principles. It’s a paradigm; a different way of thinking. It focuses on the “what” is being done, as opposed to the “how” it’s being done as in Object Oriented and Imperative paradigms. The first functional programming language was created in 1960 (LISP), but interestingly, Functional Programming is…
