The data dependencies management is an important topic for me. Over the years, while working with React, Redux and other libraries from this ecosystem, we developed a few solutions for this problem. Here is our story.
Interacting with the Tezos Blockchain on iOS, Part 2: Tezos Contracts
This tutorial is a follow-up to the part 1 that explained how to work with TezosSwift. If you did not read it and are already familiar with it or just want to skip to the code generation, I think you should be able to follow this tutorial as well, just download the project from part one.
You’ve changed, Slack
Redesigns launch countless waves of hate. That’s an axiom. Every logo change of any more or less known company is welcomed by tons of bitter posts and comments on every social network of the world. Insults on designers, supposedly “witty” memes, attempts to improve the design, listings of human organs that can be seen in new graphics, discoveries of old-time logos from which the new one was obviously copied – just classic. The quality of the redesign doesn’t matter. Twitter will explode even when Spotify changes the shade of green.
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Interacting with the Tezos blockchain on iOS: Part 1
Interacting with the Tezos blockchain on an iOS device should be an easy task. With TezosSwift, we at Ackee are working to accomplish that goal. TezosSwift has been built with type-safety in mind and implements most of what you could possibly need for Tezos development on iOS. Parts of this tutorial are also applicable to Keefer Taylor’s TezosKit, a library that TezosSwift is based on.
Typescript: Function composition and recurrent types
While I was working on our toolkit library Desmond I stumbled upon a problem when defining the TypeScript definition for a function pipe.
Cypress – testing web applications with ease
Jest, Mocha and Chai are among the most known tools for React testing (and Javascript in general) of applications. In Ackee we use Jest for unit test and integration testing. However, when it comes to testing more complex functionalities, working with Jest is not always easy. When integrating many application parts in your tests you must often deal with complex setup of a test environment, mocking modules/functions and handling of asynchronous events. That is the reason I decided to try the testing tool Cypress which our colleague Lukáš heard about at the Reactive Meetup in Pardubice and I would like to share my experience in this article.
My automatized task management
As a project manager working for a development agency I need to manage several tasks every day. The environment which I am working in is really dynamic and it is so easy to forget something. I am constantly receiving emails from clients and I am also in a day to day cooperation with developers and other co-workers. Every channel I use for communication generates tasks. So the question is how you can manage all these task without going insane.
Mobile app with SAP Cloud Platform machine learning ready in a night and a day?
German SAP had chosen Ackee as one of the five participants of a hackathon that run during the SAP CONNECT 2018 conference. The goal was to demonstrate what the teams were able to create with the new SAP Mobile Platform SDK and the whole SAP Cloud Platform.
Integrating kin blockchain into a mobile app
Two years ago, my colleagues participated in a weekend hackathon and came up with an idea to create a Rock-Paper-Scissors game for Facebook messenger. The real-world RPS game is simple and pretty much everyone knows how to play it. The mobile app didn’t aim to add cool new ways to play the game and tried to be as simple as possible.
React Hooks – new stuff for cool kids
Have you noticed this huge buzz about React Hooks in last few days/weeks? If you are as interested in it as we are and you haven’t hesitated and have watched the Dan Abramovs’ talk (the first one ever on React Conf), you won’t find anything new in the following article. On the other hand, if you’ve never heard about it or you haven’t got a chance to explore it more, this article may speak to you.
