CodeMobile Developer Conference, Chester, 18th – 20th April 2017 PGS Software Android guru, Tomasz Zielinski, will be speaking at this conference on Wednesday 19th April at 13.45. His talk is “The state of security of Android banking apps in Poland”
Doctrine’s Second Level Cache in a Symfony Application This article describes how to improve your Symfony app’s performance by introducing Doctrine's second level cache. All conclusions were made after testing with Redis 3.0 and MySQL 5.7.
What Do Design, Psychology & Communication Skills Have in Common? Trends are constantly changing – much faster than the products we are working on. Each industry has its own design tendencies, and each group of users has its own preferences and habits. Our role is to recognise them and to turn them into a single product that won’t end up being just a passing trend.
Debug Like a Magician – OzCode OzCode provides more than 20 debugging related features built into Visual Studio debugging. Let me introduce you to some of the features that I like the most.
iOS UI Testing and Why It Does Not Always Work: a.k.a. Pushing The Limits of the XCTest Framework When Apple introduced the new UI automation framework in 2015 we became excited. We could finally test the UI and the behaviour of our applications using Swift (or Objective-C) and the native library. Previously, we had to write scripts in JavaScript and execute them using Instruments. This was not the easiest way to write, maintain, and debug tests. Thankfully, since Apple introduced the new framework things began to change...but did they really?
Spinnaker Change is an aspect of life that we have to deal with on a daily basis – and one that has a special significance for software development, as it makes or breaks a project often enough. It’s no wonder then, that it has lately become an important topic for many software houses. The results? New ideas and support tools for software development and distribution.
Remote Teams Probably your project manager or team leader told you how significant is to share the knowledge and co-operate. You have to plan ahead as a team, discuss what tasks to take up first, create an API contract, talk to each other during the story life cycle and solve problems. And all of that is quite obvious but is also hard enough for the teams that sit next to each other in an office. But what if half of your team is working from a location on the other side of a country? Welcome to PGS Software reality.
