Good find! All fixed :)
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I have a question about the image - whats the stand used for the iPad?
Although - I wouldn't recommend it for every app. Our apps are enterprise focused business apps, mainly forms and data. We have built a social - B2C app before but the results were not as good as we'd hoped. It does still feel like a hybrid app opposed to native.
My advice - If its an app focused on data and forms then yes go hybrid, if you want to do something different go native.
I current share - Wages, Intership programmes, Size (I dont pretend to be larger than we are, we used to but its beneficial not too for us.)
I'm concerned about sharing rev as well, but I have shared it with clients who have asked.... Its odd some clients mainly enterprise will ask whats your yearly rev as if its not a personal question.
I'm leaning towards being more transparent, sharing your burn rate in a particular way is OK. However its about messaging. If you write a blog post advertising the rate and its bad, I'd see that as negative. However if it comes up in conversation (article or RL) then I dont see the issue with sharing.
On one hand you're saying if someone finds you a job you'll give them £1,500, but on the other you're saying if a company comes across you via your wordpress blog then they OWE you £1500.
Demanding a referral fee for someone doing the work you haven't managed to do your self is ridiculous. Yes some companies offer it but its not a given. I'd think twice before hiring anyone who demands anything.
I like the idea of this post but the author comes across terribly.
I disagree with pretty much everything you've said here!
I'm a huge fan of Backbone. Its small enough to learn the in's and outs of it and also allows you to control the structure / design of the application.
This definitely has pro's and con's but for us it means we can swap developers and theres a design pattern thats easy to understand and implement.
We're actually building a pretty large Ember project at the moment (a project management tool called Matterhorn). Its been a great experience and we're planning on using it for all of our client projects going forward.
The learning curve is a little high and the 'plugin' eco-system is lacking to say the least. I actually think this is a good thing though as most people write terrible plugins. Roll your own and own it.
Meta trails is a companion to tools like Codeacademy or Team Treehouse. What we've found is its really hard to answer questions like 'Do you know CSS' its much easier to ask smaller questions like can you postion an element on a page, can you style typography correctly. By asking these smaller questions you can gauge where you are and whats missing.
Meta Trails asks you those questions, its more of a tool than a platform.
You're about right on salaries in the UK. Its a strange market here, its very hard to find good staff and generally companies want far too much experience for a Junior role.
We take on new recruits with little to no experience in the field and train them from 6-18 months. We've taken designers and turned them into very good ruby developers as well as no experience to full-stack devs.
It really depends on the company though, look for a company who is focused on training. The salary should also increase in 6 months at a minimum and there should be a clear path to earning a decent salary.
We start at around 16-18K and have reviews every 3 months. The goals are set by the employees (we track this using a free product we made called Meta Trails check it out!) and as long as they say they've hit there targets its a 20% raise. Heres what it looks like in real life:
Starting 18K
3 Months: 21.6K
6 Months: 26K
9 Months: 21K
12 Months: 37K
After a year we move to a normal review period of 1 year. The reason we do this is we put a lot of time / money into training and our results are fantastic. I'd like to see more companies hiring Jr developers.
We are actually looking for another developer to join the team drop me an email josh[at]seriousfox.co.uk
I generally agree. We built Meta Trails to track how well our new recruits are progressing. We use Team Tree House and Code Academy to help them progress and they're great resources, however my issue with them is they gamify the amount of time spent watching the content. What we are doing is essentially creating checklists for things like:
- Can you create a function?
- Can you invoke a function?
These are really yes / no questions and makes validating knowledge much easier.
The design was really fun hack-day project although I have a feeling we may re-think it as you aren't the first person to bring up the gamification part.
Thanks for your feedback!
Theres a few problems with this.
1. Time - Its not my fault you sent me a broken product. Send me a new one and i'll send you back the broken one.
2. Its a terrible customer experience.
Its an offline activity for me. Whatever time I get in from work say 7-9pm I generally cook if theres food in the fridge. Most meals tend to take an hour which is a good time for me to think about something else other than work.
> 2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?
Sort of I have goto meals mainly asian which is always in the fridge / freezer
> 3. What kind of things do you cook usually?
Other peoples recipes!
> 4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.
Slow / No carbs, high protein
> 5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?
I have a few although its less about being productive.
- Have a handful of goto meals that you know inside out and have them in the fridge.
- Get meat out the night before and put it in the freezer
- Always have vegetables you'll eat out if there isn't anything
- Ramen noodles should be bought in 25/50 boxes!
I dont think the focus of cooking should be about being productive, sometimes its nice to switch off and get away from the computer and talk to the wife / partner / people that aren't on the internet
We've decided to move to Ember from Backbone instead of going to Angular, articles like this make me doubt my decision!