Do you think your app is safe enough? Nothing could be further from the truth! Nowadays we are surrounded by mobile applications which influence almost every aspect of our everyday life. Due to the fact that mobile apps also touch some sensitive parts of our lives, namely: banking, shopping, medical care, contacts, etc., developers put huge efforts into expanding their security. App creators implement more and more advanced data protection mechanisms, but do they really remember about securing less obvious elements that take part in data processing? In this article we would like you to show how to avoid data leaks related to these elements based on Android OS.
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Elixir is a language based on Erlang VM, which means that there are more than 30 years of experience in building good virtual machines under the hood. This and the beauty of Elixir programming have convinced many companies to migrate some or all of their services using this language. Here are some of them:
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The success of Brexit referendum proved to be a huge blow to the image of London as the European tech capital. For months, the fears have grown. In fact, 2016 has been a great year for UK's startups. While the future of the financial passport and the access to EU talent remains uncertain, the European markets should remain open for the UK companies, and they should continue to increasingly depend on the efficiency of remote teams based in EU countries.
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How to Recognise an Experienced Developer and Why It Is Worth Having One in Your Web Development Team [Update]
Robert Kuśmirek
When creating a product, many clients have concerns about the work of professionals who will be implementing their idea. This is accompanied by many questions: whether it is better to choose less experienced programmers for less money or more experienced but more expensive. Naturally, the latter may incur higher costs for the project, but only in the short term. In the long term, an experienced developer from a good web development company will prove to be a much better – and eventually cheaper – option than you expect.
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Celebrating a city is about celebrating the individuals that make it remarkable. That’s why we want to focus on the most successful startup founders of 2017 that are based in NYC. Of course, to make the list you had to meet the following criteria: Founder of a stable, yet promising startup in 2017, Founder based or started startup in NYC, Recent achievements and success.
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When delivering a final product, you might find yourself facing a tight deadline. The project has to meet certain specifications and the client’s requirements, and it needs to be free of bugs. In the midst of all that, end users are often forgotten. Users are going to have a bad time using your product if their needs are not taken into account during the development phase. This can, in turn, result in a product that is difficult to use and prone to human error. People tend to blame themselves for obstacles and errors they encounter using a product. This is quite unfortunate but mostly avoidable. See how you can avoid it.
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Berlin’s tech scene is thriving. So much so that Germany’s capital apparently welcomes a new startup every 20 minutes, according to advisory agency Gruenden. And whilst it hasn’t quite taken over European leader, London, Germany’s capital currently ranks 7th in the world for startups with an estimated 2,400 new firms located there. The city also has a knack for attracting investment with €2.4 billion in venture capital invested in Berlin’s startup scene last year, according to Ernst and Young.
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Ember-fastboot is a server-side rendering mechanism for the Ember.js framework. It’s almost ready for release, with some minor bugs in Github issues, but there is already a release candidate for 1.0.0. We haven't used fastboot in production until recently, so we needed to build a deployment pipeline from scratch. The open-source community is absolutely amazing with all the blocks available. All you need to do is to connect the blocks properly – check out how.
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In every business setting, there are several dreaded, time-consuming and repetitive activities which we must carry out to keep the wheels spinning. Somebody has to do them regardless of the very low fun factor. We are a software company, though – we simplify and automate complicated things for a living, so why not do it for the boring part of our jobs, too?
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When developing a product, startup founders and product owners have to face many decisions about its shape. How to evaluate which of them are good and which can bear a detrimental impact on the product's performance? One of the methods of doing this is a UX review, during which the product undergoes a comprehensive analysis of user experience and business goals. Take a look at how the UX review helped one of our clients, whym, decide on which direction they should take.
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