Why Developers Who Pair-Program Are More Likely To Get Hired
I’ve seen a number of technical job interviews over the course of my career, both as the applying candidate and the interviewer. If I could wave my magic wand and do away with just one of the most common myths in this industry, it would be that of the stereotypical lone-wolf software developer. Even the …
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Introduction to TDD/BDD: How to Get Started in Any Language
Test-driven development (TDD) and behaviour-driven development (BDD) are two approaches to software development that can help you write cleaner, more robust and less error-prone code. In this tutorial, we’ll be discussing both approaches and walking through a simple example in JavaScript. While these skills are not essential to building software, they can save you time …
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Team Spotlight: Meet Jamie-Lee
This week, we’re excited to introduce to you our amazing Senior Account Manager, Jamie-Lee. When she’s not travelling the world, she’s connecting companies with the very best tech talent in London. Let’s hear from Jamie-Lee on what makes a candidate stand out for a company and why startups recruit differently to bigger organisations. Name: Jamie-Lee …
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[Opinion] 3 Reasons Why You Need To Learn React Right Now!
It’s undeniable that Facebook’s front-end poster child, React, is big in 2018. React is characterised by its component-based method of creating user interfaces and declarative syntax. With stiff competition from Vue.js and Angular, many developers will be wondering whether React is for them. In spite of this competition, I’m convinced that React is the framework that …
6 Tiny JavaScript Libraries To Drop Into Your Next Project
The discussion around frontend development is often focused on frameworks. But what about libraries? Even when we move away from frameworks and get into libraries, the most popular libraries are often the ones that dictate your development style. Whether we are talking about Redux or RxJS or Immutable or Flux or Lodash or Ramda, all …
Discover London’s Leading Tech For Good Companies – Part 1
There’s an abundance of tech companies out there and amongst them, a new breed is emerging: the *Tech For Good* companies. We’ve identified 8 such companies in London who have chosen to change the world. Some bring the change in the education industry, some create platforms tackling mental health whilst others impact the education sector. We’re …
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Talent Manager Spotlight: Meet Taz
The Talent Managers working on the Snap.hr platform are here to match you with the perfect job based on your needs and experience. It’s not an easy job, but we have the perfect people doing it, and we’d love for you to know more about our team. This week meet Taz, one of the original Talent …
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From Pair Programming To Code Review: 7 Feedback Loops You Should Try Using
Working in software development requires that we find the right techniques to achieve quality and customer satisfaction. Learning about development and flow techniques from experienced peers can be helpful. But if the team has a lack of senior peers or insufficient commitment, we may have to find alternative routes. While studying how to improve my …
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Build A London Bus Arrival Ticker With Raspberry Pi
If you live in London, there’s a good chance you rely on one of the two major public transport systems, the Tube and buses. Although the Tube is quite frequent, buses can be quite infrequent, especially outside Central London. This is why I thought this would make a fantastic little project to make with a …
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Pizza Or Salad? Build A Recommendations Algorithm In Apache Mahout.
Whether you’re recommending products, finding similar users or just identifying correlations, Apache Mahout is a useful library of machine learning algorithms for Hadoop. If you’re not already familiar with Machine Learning, it focuses on learning from a given dataset to make predictions on unseen data without explicit programming. In other words, you don’t need your …
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