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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How To Get A Job In Crypto (And Should You?)
Whether it’s a platform for collectable kittens or “blockchain for dentists”, crypto startups are popping up everywhere.But how do you get a job in crypto? And if you do happen to have the right stack, should you? The crypto industry is in a similar state as the internet was in its early days – there …
10 Qualities Every Great Software Engineer Should Have
When I started coding professionally I wanted to write perfect code because that’s what I thought a great developer was. However, I quickly learned that there is more to software development than just writing great code. The question of “What makes a good developer?” is a subjective question and you will get different answers when …