SmartNow, formerly Connected Molecules, has provided smart solutions for self-service networks since 2012 from its base in The Netherlands…

Object Pooling is a creational pattern that allows us to use memory resources efficiently. It’s often used in game development but; can serve as a life saver when it comes to building complex UIs and fluid animations while processing big amounts of data in our JavaScript applications. By the way…

‘Big Data’ is the up-rising topic. As keeping reason of this out of the scope, I would like to jump on ‘how to test big data’. What does it mean? Why is it such a huge deal? What methods are there to use? Which tools are there use? But before…

I was playing around with Jasmine for a project. All basic setup and defining tests are as easy as Mocha and are relatively easy compared to QUnit. …

Abstract Compositional programming, which promotes parametric polymorphism with approaches such as Composition over Inheritance is practiced within many paradigms. It facilitates code reuse, encapsulation and open/closed principles among others. Its applicability in Multi-Paradigm languages, as defended by Martin Odersky et al, particularly at higher levels with complex structures as in Object-Oriented…

Material Design is announced at Google I/O 2014 and I remember the amazement we had when we watched it. It is a breakthrough in UX design that enables a cohesive experience across devices, various screen sizes and even platforms. Android 5.0 Lollipop brings material design into the platform. In this…

This post talks about hosting multiple development environments with IDE’s on a single machine using Docker. Along the post we’ll write a simple Dockerfile to host a Scala project and we’ll also install an IDE into the docker container by sharing the X11 socket with the host machine. …

Grunt is a quite popular, JavaScript based task runner which comes as a Node.js module. At VNGRS, we use Grunt for mainly automation tasks. Some examples of where Grunt is useful are; Analyzing CSS and JavaScript code quality with various tools (jshint, csslint). Compiling languages such as Coffeescript, Less, Sass/SCSS…

We are using Scala for one of our clients. However, they didn’t want to involve using fancy/functional libraries such as which can be hard for newcomers. However we really needed validation tools such as one in scalaZ . After analyzing our requirements, we realized that we don’t need error accumulation…