How would you split a storyboard into multiple smaller storyboards? Why would you? Marius Waldal, senior software developer with Finn, explains the reasoning, examines the problems, and attempts an answer.
Our video pages needed a redesign, so we did a usability study…
I’ve been using Docker for a year now, developing and deploying both professional and pet projects, and I love it. In fact, it’s so much better than my previous stack (a mix of Vagrant and Puppet) that I’ve made a video of my top five reasons for loving Docker!
I’d like to share some different ways of writing asynchronous code in JavaScript. Whether you’re writing for the browser or building complex Node.js apps, here are some popular techniques and more experimental solutions to improve the quality and readability of your code.
This article is an overview of dependency injection (DI) techniques that can be used in Scala Play framework apps: Guice, manual DI, the cake pattern, MacWire, and the reader monad.
During the 10 years I’ve been into professional programming, the largest paradigm shift I’ve witnessed is the one from sequential to asynchronous programming. Not that it is a new concept – asynchronousity has been has been present in programming since the dawn of time, but what’s new is the tight
Advertisers don’t want to pay for advertisement placements that people don’t see. An ad loaded doesn’t necessarily equal an ad viewed, the publishers and advertisers have caught on to this and are naturally shifting towards valuing ‘viewable’ ads rather than served impressions. VG has been working on improving the percentage of
An open source toolkit for JavaScript development There has been a lot of talk recently about how hard it is to do web development in this day and age. People are describing the current state of web development as depressing and frustrating, referring to it as JavaScript Fatigue. If you
Want to explore how we plan to create and maintain full-stack web applications with reactive views and universal rendering? Then keep reading. Or just head right to the action. React React by Facebook has gained a lot of traction the last few years. React gives developers a way of defining
VG’s premium digital product, VG+ recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with over 70 000 paying subscribers. VG+ is a five year old publication published by a tabloid newspaper with no history of subscriptions. VG+ is now the fourth largest newspaper in Norway with ambitions to surpass the 100,000 subscriber milestone
On a cold Thursday in December, we held our annual Hack Day on the top floor of the VG building in Oslo. 30+ eager developers, designers and product people huddled together in front of the fireplace, to experiment, create and have fun with VG’s products and technology. Surrounded by soda cans and bags of snacks,
Every once in a while, I see or hear someone complaining that a basic React application ran through Webpack ends up being 700 kB or more. I think it’s important to take a look at why this is happening – cause it’s usually all about the environment. When you’re in
