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Lucian Vasiliu - 3 Nov 2020

Upgrading React Native in a legacy project

Our team has just completed the 8th sprint in this new and exciting project and we decided to document our journey, sprinkled with challenges, wins and lessons learned.

Technology
Paula Cristea - 23 Sep 2020

React vs. Angular: 5 main differences

The biggest difference between the two is that React is a library and not a framework per se. Imagine it like an actual library; a huge place with wonderful books, aka “coding pieces” in software development, that you can use to add new functions to a website or app. Angular is a framework; picture it as an actual frame. To fit a certain picture into that frame you have to cut it, meaning you can’t go back. In software development, a framework comes with a specific standard for an app or website. It is limited, setting an unchangeable project architecture. Once cut, you can’t uncut it.

Technology
Paula Cristea - 7 Sep 2020

The do's & don'ts of working with a remote development team

It’s okay to feel a little reluctant when you first begin a collaboration with a remote software development team. Managing a team located hundreds of kilometers away can make you feel a little insecure, and that’s alright. But you need to build your product on time, on budget, and to top code quality standards, and hiring an internal development team doesn’t always make financial sense.

Team
Ilie Ghiciuc - 2 Sep 2020

Mobile design. Something almost as important as the app itself.

For startup founders and entrepreneurs it’s essential to keep in mind that design has a lot to do with business success. If the design process is neglected, most times bankruptcy can occur.

Technology
Paula Cristea - 1 Sep 2020

Infographic: React.js stats for 2020

Why do we love it? Because it helps us create the most engaging web apps efficiently and fast with minimal coding. Since its release back in 2013, the goal of React.js was to provide outstanding rendering performance, considering its core strength is on individual components. Although it won the “battle” against Vue.js in 2019, things are changing fast in the software development realm; ASP.NET Core occupies the pole position with 70.7%, followed by React.js with 68,9%.

Technology
Ilie Ghiciuc - 26 Aug 2020

Internal vs external team for mobile product development

His concern was the following: “We will need continuous development and working with an external agency will definitely be too expensive. Even though your prices are very competitive, costs don't match those of two developers employed in-house.”

Technology
Ilie Ghiciuc - 18 Aug 2020

Smartphone statistics and tablet usage patterns

As technology advances, so do the behaviors of the users so, for us, keeping up with the latest research and statistics is both a necessity and a delight. We're aware that we process images 60.000 times faster than texts so we've prepared some infographics for all you data viz aficionados out there. Click to go straight to the infographics.

Technology
Cezara Pralea - 10 Aug 2020

How we estimate the cost of your digital product

By definition, a thing that’s unique is “the only one of its kind”, consequently we can’t measure with complete accuracy something that’s entirely new. We can, however, recall from past projects certain patterns, some similarities that reduce the risk and increase the accuracy of our estimates. In software development, estimation is the process of predicting the most likely amount of effort (time and budget) required to build or maintain a software system. Only after going through the estimation process can we be comfortable to offer a price range for your digital product. But before explaining how we do estimates, let’s have a quick look at what typically happens after you make a request for proposal.

Team
Lorina Busuioc - 28 Jul 2020

How we built our own design system

Remember that episode from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. when Chandler decides to go into advertising and wants to create a new and innovative slogan for cheese, saying “Cheese. It’s milk that you chew.”? Very much like the cheese slogan, wheel and the login page, some things just don’t need to be reinvented. Ask the nice folks at Hubspot. Their experience while redesigning their already complex platform was sprinkled with epiphanies related to design components that had been unnecessarily reinvented (aka inconsistencies in design): they had over 100 shades of the colour grey, 8 types of date pickers, more than 40 text styles in 3 different fonts and the list continues.

UX/UI Design
Alex Cristea - 10 Jul 2020

My work-from-home productivity system. What’s yours?

I am a full-time software developer at Thinslices, and I also have Team Leader responsibilities. Like many of us, for the past 4 months I’ve been working from home. I also have a toddler who is in his curiosity & house exploration stage. The good part is that it has a full-time mother, so I don't have to do too much kid management 😂.

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