Two Easy Ways to Start Contributing to Open Source
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 […]
My Firsthand Experience with Rust + WebAssembly
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 […]
SEO For ReactJS Websites
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 […]
How to be Successful in a New Development Role
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 […]
Marketing Automation | PMG POV
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 […]
Cross-Account Redshift UNLOAD/COPY
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 […]
Augmented Reality: The Next Frontier
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, […]
How Progressive Web Apps are Changing the Mobile Web Experience
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 […]
Common React Mistakes Part 2: Connecting too many Components
In part one we talked about Monolithic Components and a Lack of Abstraction. In this post, we will continue talking about best practices we’ve found working with React/Redux over the past year. Connecting too many components is an issue that should be avoided when working in React and Redux. Having too many components connected to […]
Three Ways to Improve Internal Developer Experience (DX)
Developer Experience or DX is a relatively new idea. It doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page yet (that I could find in July 2017). This is a fairly nice overview of the DX idea related to APIs and Heroku has a page dedicated to it. Symfony, an open source PHP framework we use quite a […]
