Since 2007 Lemonfrog AG specializes in building and running online marketplaces for services. Lemonfrog started with Babysitting24, a site matching babysitters with parents, and soon expanded to other marketplaces with websites: Petsitting24, Homeservice24, Tutor24, Seniorservice24, and more. Lemonfrog platforms operate in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
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In the world where you can Google and find almost everything, good old books may seem to be a bit out-of-date… Especially technical ones! However, some of them are truly irreplaceable when it comes to all-embracing patterns, covering the basics, or even leading us step by step from the fundamental concepts to some highly-advanced details. Best books on Node.js are not exception.
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As a professional and as a technologist, you always want to be up-to-date with the latest news from the field of business and tech. But how do you know what other representatives of the industry think about its current state? How do you make sure your opinions stay relevant in an industry that's constantly changing?
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Quite recently, we've figured out that we can improve our internal flow in terms of answering clients' calls, coming primarily from abroad. The idea was to build a simple app that will intercept incoming calls, post a Slack notification and allow us to answer these calls through a web browser using Twilio number. That’s how Callio was born. In this article, you will find a comprehensive guide on how it works and how to integrate it with your account.
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Using the UK Tech Investment Tracker provided by Tech City News, we compiled a list of top five companies that have received the biggest cash injections in 2016 and 2017.
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A cool thing about working in a software development company is that we have the resources to create our own internal solutions. When we can’t find a tool that would sort out our problems, we just make them. That’s how Callio, a Twilio integration with Slack, was born. Callio lets us intercept incoming calls from our clients via our favourite communication platform – Slack. There is something even cooler about us having the resources to develop new solutions: we can share those solutions with the community to make your life easier.
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The article was originally published on ITProPortal. When you build a great product, sooner or later, it will be attracting more and more users who will expect a performant, irreproachable app. As the app grows in time it handles more requests per minute. If you’re not prepared for this the app performance will drop and you will potentially lose your audience. In this blog post we explain what you should pay attention to when building a scalable app.
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A team of futurists, entrepreneurs and engineers created ShiftWear to challenge the fashion and tech industries with “the most advanced and immersive sneakers ever". The concept revolved around bringing to market sneakers that could dynamically display images and animations created by remote designers.
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Does using docker to reduce disk clutter and time spent on setting up a new machine sound good? It definitely did to me. In this article, I’ll show you how to get started with a dockerized development environment, so you can get a taste of what it’s like. I’ll also give you some suggestions near the end on how to learn what you need to know about this tool.
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No Abstraction is Better Than Wrong Abstraction: How to Use Abstraction in Programming
Łukasz Ozimek
Put simply, abstraction in programming organises system functionalities in a way that allows us to build apps efficiently. It gives the code base structure that is easy to understand and maintain. Sounds cool, right? However, if you don’t use abstraction correctly, it may do more harm than good.
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