As you may already know, handheld devices these days are able to do a lot more than just show basic applications. Mobile devices can do a wide range of things, from accessing your bank account to managing your house and controlling external hardware and peripherals. In this blog post, we’ll focus on the latter. Since the … Continued
In Software Engineering, deploying to production is always a risk, but at the same time, it is always necessary. How else would you ship new features or bug fixes? Bugs are frequently introduced while deploying new features or fixing other bugs. We are only human, after all. Given this scenario, it seems wise to invest … Continued
Mobile development has won over the world, with companies shifting their priorities to their mobile products. With this global domination of sorts, companies have been finding and developing newer, better ways to progress. Frameworks, although started out with the development of hybrid apps showing a website inside an application, have been evolving into creating fully … Continued
Last year, I attended an interesting event that was designed to encourage women to go into programming. It was held in my hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay and organized by Django Girls, a non-profit organization that holds free Python and Django workshops for women. Run by volunteers, Django Girls is making technology more accessible by providing … Continued
Big news! We’re rebranding, and with that comes a new website, logo, colors and font that reflect the success and transformation our company has experienced in the last 12 years. Back when we started out in 2006, old-fashion software dominated the software industry, waterfall development methodology was all the rage and Nokia 1100 devices were … Continued
React Native is taking over the mobile world, from the very start of being released to the general public. Being a newcomer in the industry, there isn’t a proper consensus for the structure of a React Native based app, so we’ve decided to implement our own. A main reason we want to define a baseline for … Continued
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect this week. While the regulation affects all organizations accessing personal data of European Union (EU) citizens, its implication for software development companies is far reaching. This is because personal data – the focus of the regulation – is at the very core of software … Continued
Thanks to Bitcoin and its recent surge in popularity, the terms “blockchain” and “blockchain technology” have entered into our common consciousness and become a big part of everyday vocabulary. Hardly a day goes by without some major publication talking about blockchain technology and how it’s going to change the world. For the most part, the … Continued
The healthcare system is not perfect: It can be unfair, slow, expensive – even incomprehensible. It is so vast and complex that it may seem as though there is nothing that can be done to improve it. Some might think: If hundreds of millions of dollars, different administrations, professionals and organizations have been unable to … Continued
We live in an information era. Never have we had as many available resources as we do now: libraries, universities, databases, apps, informatic systems, and technology, to name a few. Nowadays, information multiplies at an incomprehensible rate. According to a recent study by IBM, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day; the … Continued