A few weeks ago, I was able to attend Quantcast Measure Hackathon at their headquarters in San Francisco. The Hackathon is a unique, 2-day experience, that brings agencies, brands, publishers, and engineers together with one goal- solve some of the problems advertisers and publishers face on a daily basis. Here’s How the Hackathon Worked Groups of […]
We all use open-source software or libraries. Developers usually have an urge to give back and contribute code or bug fixes or whatever — not only is it great to contribute in general but having some public examples of our code and interaction with real software projects is a huge benefit for a job search […]
Last week a few developers spent the week at F8, the Facebook Developer Conference in San Jose, in the interest of hearing about security updates with all the Cambridge Analytica stuff going on, along with hearing new updates about the apps under the Facebook umbrella. While Facebook announced some interesting new features during keynotes, like […]
For those of you unfamiliar with the development world, rumor has it, there’s a new type of code that may be the future of web development called WebAssembly (Wasm). Wasm is a low-level assembly-like language and allows a developer to write in multiple languages (C/C++/Rust) on the web at near-native speeds. Wasm is designed to […]
ReactJS is a popular JavaScript library used for a growing number of websites. In fact, 5.6% of the top 10,000 websites now use React, according to digital technology trending site BuiltWith. Building websites and mobile web apps in React can help create a modern user experience, however, like many JavaScript technologies, there are search engine […]
There are a few misconceptions about what developers should know before going into a new development role, but the biggest misconception is that the developer should know a wide range of programming languages and be an expert in all of them. But, since the fundamental concepts of programming are shared amongst all the languages like […]
Making Marketing Automation Work for Your Business It’s clear that 2017 has been the year where companies start shifting their focus towards efforts on marketing automation and experimentation through the use of machine learning. For AdWords, Google has consistently been pushing improvements to their enhanced CPCs, increasing and decreasing bids dynamically in every auction based […]
At PMG, the dev team maintains several large applications that provide our account teams with the tools they need to be awesome. We host those tools on individual AWS accounts, but sometimes they need to talk with each other across accounts. Most recently we had to implement a redshift UNLOAD from one AWS account to […]
The last time a dancing piece of food went viral, it was March 2002 and it was a banana singing about Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Today, things are more sophisticated: you can project a dancing hot dog into your room on Snapchat (without the music, thankfully). Besides being addicting to watching these guys gyrate around, […]
My mom was complaining about how her phone is cluttered with all kinds of apps she doesn’t use or know what they are. So my eight-year-old son popped over to help out (free screen time!). Faster than I could have, he had moved the unwanted apps into a “junk heap” folder on the phone. He […]