Nowadays more and more people with disabilities are using all kinds of software. It means that developers have to keep in mind this group of customers. I’ll describe several approaches to address this situation in the following article.
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When should children study programming in school? How to involve them in IT projects? What are the benefits of technical education? The following article answers these and some related questions.
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Tons of applications and websites claim they are localized for most of the markets and languages. The actual situation is a bit different. They added support of multiple languages and data formats but forgot about other crucial aspects of being friendly for the international customers. The following article covers typical mistakes such applications and websites make.
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Nowadays, most software development companies use agile methodologies to move developers across multiple projects flexibly. Although some developers do not like switching between projects, the idea of redistributing the load and resources is excellent. Let us see how to do it with a minimum amount of time and minimize the negative consequences.
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There is a common rule in parallel computing — if you want to compute something two times faster, you have to use three times more powerful hardware. However, this rule works differently when applied to software development. Let us see how several teams can work in parallel and what are the best practices.
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This article is just a summary of the best practices every software engineer can use to use time efficiently. Some recommendations always work for everybody; others may work only under certain circumstances. However, you can check out all of them and see how to optimize your working time.
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Every enterprise-level application uses background processing in some form. It may be a message passing interface implemented as a service bus, direct interaction via web sockets, or something else. We will check the most crucial areas in the background processing developer has to know and take care of.
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Every software developer knows that an application may trigger lots of errors. Many factors can cause it — bad configuration, invalid source data, inexperienced users, lack of knowledge, etc. However, an application may tolerate some errors and do not tolerate others. So, where is the border which separates them?
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Somebody may say that software engineering is a very standardized and boring process. Although there is a grain of truth in this opinion, it is not precisely correct. There are many areas in software engineering where creativity is obligatory, and this article explains that.
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