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10 Quick Tips About Sales Storytelling

“Those who tell the stories rule the world”, as a popular Native American proverb goes, and it is really hard to disagree with. The most powerful and successful people in the world are often the best storytellers. Some of them are honest, some of them not so honest, but even populists and bold-faced liars can appear trustworthy. What’s the reason for this? Why do people believe in politicians, businesses and salespeople, or even strangers when they have a great story to tell?

Mikołaj Chanek Jun 5, 2018 in Business Development

How to Organize Large Rails Applications

I think a lot of you have faced a problem with your Rails application. It’s getting bigger and bigger, it’s really hard to maintain? You have too many models and they are too big? It’s really hard to find something in your code and you have duplicated it in many places? I think that it’s normal. By default, Rails gives us only three layers - models, controllers and views. Oh, I forgot, we also have helpers!

Piotr Jaworski May 28, 2018 in Ruby on Rails

Company Branches with Google Map and Geolocation in WordPress

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a map with Google geolocation that allows you to find the company’s branches. It’s important that geolocation works only with https so remember to set it up on your dev.

Paweł Szczepański May 14, 2018 in WordPress

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Proof of Concept vs Minimum Viable Product

Proof of Concept and Minimum Viable Product are two very important tools used when working on the initial phases of software development project. What we’ve noticed is that our customers can often confuse these two or sometimes consider them to be the same. Since they aren’t, let’s take a quick look at the use cases for both of them to make it easier to place them in the development process.

Piotr Nowak Apr 10, 2018 in Business Development MVP

Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? In this article, we walk you through the subject and extend the definition with some examples of practical applications.

Piotr Nowak Mar 16, 2018 in Business Development MVP

How to Setup Rails Application on Heroku – Redis, Sidekiq, Action Cable and Cron Configuration

Have you ever dreamed about deploying your application to a server so you could show your friends or test how it would work in a production environment? Yeah, I remember when I wrote my first, simple web-application in Ruby on Rails and I wanted to deploy it somewhere. I was trying to find a good provider but a lot of hosting companies were only offering PHP support. So, basically, you were only able to deploy a WordPress or PHP application. Then I found one provider who claimed that with their servers, you could deploy your Ruby application with just one command, just like git push origin master and voila, everything is ready!

Piotr Jaworski Mar 14, 2018 in Ruby on Rails

Blockchain App with Ruby

This tutorial shows how to work with blockchain using Ruby and how to create a decentralized application based on Ruby on Rails. It doesn’t cover deep knowledge of blockchain, only a basic introduction that helps to understand how it works and how to design dApp architecture.

Kuba Wilczek Mar 9, 2018 in Blockchain Ruby on Rails

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Elasticsearch with Rails – How to Create a Simple Search Engine in 1 Hour

Have you ever had a problem in your application with a slow search engine? It acts like a simple SQL LIKE query and it’s really slow? Or maybe you want to create an efficient and simple search form on your webpage? If you answered yes to either - this is the tutorial for you! In this tutorial, I’ll cover how to integrate your Rails application with Elasticsearch and create a simple search engine in 1 hour!

Piotr Jaworski Jan 22, 2018 in Ruby on Rails

How to Add User Taxonomy in WordPress

Tutorial presenting how to add in WordPress user taxonomy and an accurate way of counting users when they are added or removed from the term.

Paweł Szczepański Jan 12, 2018 in WordPress

Thoughts after Code Europe 2017 Conference in Kraków

It’s over: 10 hours of lectures and workshops which kept us occupied all day today at Code Europe conference in Kraków. Now it’s evening and I’ve had a chance to rest a bit, I’d like to share my thoughts while they are still fresh in my head.

Piotr Nowak Dec 11, 2017 in Company Culture Events

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Sidekiq with Pusher – Why Is It Worth to Use Them Together?

Does your application have problems with timeouts or some requests, like data generation, taking too much time? Or maybe you want to connect your results from Sidekiq to the front-end part - for example: you could notify a user, that data he requested is ready to download or display. This sends a normal Facebook like notification after a job runs successfully.

Piotr Jaworski Dec 1, 2017 in Ruby on Rails

Web Summit 2017 Summary: It Wasn’t Perfect, But It Was Worth It

Web Summit 2017, claimed to be the largest tech conference in the world, took part 6-9 November 2017 in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. This year’s edition gathered over 60,000 participants from all over the world. The variety of conferences and subjects, famous tech gurus among speakers, international business environment, and of course the beautiful city of Lisbon itself were among top reasons why, together with my colleague Monika, I decided to take part in this year’s edition.

Natalia Molik Nov 17, 2017 in Company Culture Events