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Alex Marciuc - 2 Sep 2022

Here’s our agenda for running a remote discovery workshop

Discovery workshops are a great way to establish the parameters of a new collaboration. We’ve been doing them since 2017, on-premise, with the focused goal of understanding a potential client’s needs.

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Paula Cristea - 16 Aug 2022

Reinventing bmj.com with a new approach to front-end development

When we first met the BMJ team, we were fairly nervous, as would anyone who has heard of The BMJ ( British Medical Journal). Luckily, technology is the great equalizer in our industry so we fell in sync quickly with their team, and, together, we decided to take on the challenging task of reinventing the front end of bmj.com. This is the first chapter of our collaboration, within which we’ll be explaining the “why” behind this project, and discussing the architectural decisions we took to achieve this project.

Technology
Paula Cristea - 10 Aug 2022

Developing Design Systems for BMJ

An interview with Sean van Oossanen, UX Designer We're back with another article on our collaboration with BMJ. This time, we look at the design system currently being developed for several products, bmj.com included. Having developed our own design system, we were pretty excited to have a chance to work with another company and share our experience.

UX/UI Design
Alex Cristea - 7 Jul 2022

Automating the build and deployment of React Native apps

We’ve recently taken over an existing project that suffered from some significant issues with the build and deployment processes: builds were tied to a specific machine and developer account; credentials were manually managed; and release processes were handled manually and tracked in spreadsheets.

Technology
Iulian Gioada - 6 Apr 2022

Decoupling bmj.com using Vercel and Next.js

Decoupling the front end and back end As we previously mentioned, BMJ’s flagship journal, bmj.com, is on a Drupal 7 platform. That sits on top of the JCore (Journal Core) platform which hosts the scholarly journals provided by HighWire Press. Being a traditional CMS, the Drupal platform is a monolith that controls the website's front end and back end.

Technology
Ilie Ghiciuc - 21 Jul 2021

All the Phases of the Mobile and Web Product Development Process

Analysing the market, deciding on the type of app you will build, estimating the budget and, finally, the execution – they all are long steps that can sometimes discourage you. However, they all are equally important. Neglecting some can prejudice the others and can eventually cause delays in the release.

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Cristian Gherghel - 13 Apr 2021

From freelancer to Thinslicer - the story of how I was recruited

My story starts in college; actually in my dropping out of it In '98 I went to college in Bucharest. I tried to keep up for about two years, but when I found the PC room in the basement, with around 20 Windows NT machines connected to the Internet, something clicked for me. I was so fascinated that shortly after I dropped out of school to create my own story.

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Paula Cristea - 6 Nov 2020

An honest Q&A about the pandemic and how we’ve handled it so far

Openness is one of our core values so we thought we’d get a head start on answering these questions and maybe give some candidates the peace of mind they need to start a conversation with us.

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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.

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