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  • Tips for a Junior Developer by a Junior Developer

    Tips for a Junior Developer by a Junior Developer

    Carlijn has been part of the Elements team in Almere since last October. She is 27 years old and has been working as a Junior Front-end…
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    Michelle Kuijpers
    Jan 6
    Almere & Barcelona connected by Elements

    Almere & Barcelona connected by Elements

    With more than 17 nationalities and two offices in the Netherlands and in Spain, one may call Elements an international company. What is it…
    Go to the profile of Michelle Kuijpers
    Michelle Kuijpers
    Jan 6
    Python Tips & Tricks: 3 hacks for starting a Tesla factory

    Python Tips & Tricks: 3 hacks for starting a Tesla factory

    In this blog post I would like to show you 3 Python tricks that prove that Python is awesome. Imagine you are the boss of a cool car…
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    Aitor Ruano
    Mar 19, 2021
    iOS Guide: Unit testing business logic with RIBs and Sourcery

    iOS Guide: Unit testing business logic with RIBs and Sourcery

    For iOS projects at Elements, we use Uber’s RIBs architecture to do unit testing. Read this guide to find out how…
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    Marco Driessen
    Feb 12, 2021
    Let’s pay some attention to the man behind the curtain: the Land of SysAdmins.

    Let’s pay some attention to the man behind the curtain: the Land of...

    We’re here to provide tools, shelter, 24/7 customer service hotline and occasional entertainment. All of this enables our innovative…
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    V
    Feb 1, 2021
    Guide: Creating a Cocoapod using Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile library

    Guide: Creating a Cocoapod using Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile library

    How to configure a KMM library for use in production.
    Go to the profile of Wouter V
    Wouter V
    Jan 29, 2021
    Building an iOS and Android app in React Native — The benefits for businesses

    Building an iOS and Android app in React Native — The benefits for businesses

    React Native is a framework written in JavaScript that can create an iOS and Android mobile applications with one code base, shared by…
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    Megan Callenbach
    Dec 14, 2020
    The secret is in the process. How we bring quality code to our customers’ applications.

    The secret is in the process. How we bring quality code to our customers’ applications.

    It’s like baking an egg: the right kitchen supplies, testing, adding salt, monitoring and serve them to the customers when they are done!
    Go to the profile of Aitor Ruano
    Aitor Ruano
    Dec 1, 2020
    Starting a new job from home

    Starting a new job from home

    Marco started his job as a Developer from his own home. You can read all about his onboarding and first weeks as a Developer at Elements.
    Go to the profile of Marco Driessen
    Marco Driessen
    Nov 19, 2020
    Jetpack Compose, future of Android’s UI?

    Jetpack Compose, future of Android’s UI?

    Research and adoption of new tools
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    Jeffrey de Looff
    Nov 15, 2019
    Why our team is not yet switching to Adobe Xd.

    Why our team is not yet switching to Adobe Xd.

    A critical in-depth look at the improved Adobe Xd.
    Go to the profile of Remco Bakker
    Remco Bakker
    Nov 11, 2019
    A day of inspiration at the Stedelijk Museum

    A day of inspiration at the Stedelijk Museum

    Last friday the design team took a couple of hours from work and visited the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to get inspired by all the quality…
    Go to the profile of Remco Bakker
    Remco Bakker
    Nov 4, 2019
    Cupcakes, code & unicorns

    Cupcakes, code & unicorns

    On Saturday 22nd of June, Elements office hosted the first Almere edition of Django Girls, a free programming workshop for women.
    Go to the profile of Henrieta Harcarikova
    Henrieta Harcarikova
    Jul 1, 2019
    Load Testing and Optimizing a Business-Critical Application

    Load Testing and Optimizing a Business-Critical Application

    Lessons learned from the StembureauApp
    Go to the profile of Gerard Puig
    Gerard Puig
    Jun 7, 2019
    How Elements Helps Democracy in the Netherlands

    How Elements Helps Democracy in the Netherlands

    Running smoother elections with the StembureauApp
    Go to the profile of Wouter ten Brink
    Wouter ten Brink
    May 29, 2019
    Docker Application Packages in a Nutshell

    Docker Application Packages in a Nutshell

    Exploring docker-app
    Go to the profile of Alexander Akhmetov
    Alexander Akhmetov
    Jan 22, 2019
    Building an Optimised E2E Flow System with Cypress

    Building an Optimised E2E Flow System with Cypress

    This time I’m going to focus on the approach my team took while building the E2E testing system for a project we have been working on.
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    Luis Miguel Fernández
    Nov 23, 2018
    Takeaways from DevOps World 2018 — Part II

    Takeaways from DevOps World 2018 — Part II

    This is my second post that is inspired by my visit to DevOps World 2018. My first post was about Continuous Deployment using Jenkins and…
    Go to the profile of Mattias Sluis
    Mattias Sluis
    Oct 29, 2018
    Takeaways from DevOps World 2018 — Part I

    Takeaways from DevOps World 2018 — Part I

    Continuous deployment using Jenkins and Kubernetes
    Go to the profile of Mattias Sluis
    Mattias Sluis
    Oct 1, 2018
    API Request Signing in Django (2)

    API Request Signing in Django (2)

    Adding a permission layer
    Go to the profile of Ahmed Hosny
    Ahmed Hosny
    Sep 7, 2018
    Is asyncio too hard to use? Try Trio!

    Is asyncio too hard to use? Try Trio!

    I’m working in a project with asyncio and aiohttp and sometimes it is confusing and difficult to test. This year I went to EuroPython 2018…
    Go to the profile of Jordi Bagot
    Jordi Bagot
    Aug 22, 2018
    Adventures of an iOS developer in Python

    Adventures of an iOS developer in Python

    A dive into properties, descriptors, decorators, annotations and metaclasses
    Go to the profile of Oleksandr Berezhnyi
    Oleksandr Berezhnyi
    Aug 3, 2018
    A green internship at Elements Interactive

    A green internship at Elements Interactive

    Hi, I am Nienke, 16 years old and a VMBO-T student at Clusius College. Clusius College is a "green school", meaning next to general…
    Go to the profile of Wouter ten Brink
    Wouter ten Brink
    Jul 25, 2018
    API request signing in Django

    API request signing in Django

    This article is intended to give you insights in request signing and how to implement it in the Django Framework. This article assumes…
    Go to the profile of Ahmed Hosny
    Ahmed Hosny
    Jul 17, 2018
    Memory management in Swift

    Memory management in Swift

    Recently I was having a hard time tracking down a bug that was the cause of performance problems in the app I was working on. It took me a…
    Go to the profile of Kaira Diagne
    Kaira Diagne
    Jun 12, 2018
    How the world of front-end development changed in just three years

    How the world of front-end development changed in just three years

    Three years ago I worked on a big Angular project, which took like six months to finish. Nowadays I only maintain this project and maybe…
    Go to the profile of Stoyan Delev
    Stoyan Delev
    May 31, 2018
    Diving into GraphQL and Neo4j with Python

    Diving into GraphQL and Neo4j with Python

    GraphQL has been a pretty hot topic lately and after attending PyCon Nove (which was amazing) and watching a few talks about GraphQL and…
    Go to the profile of Charles David
    Charles David
    May 28, 2018
    How to improve the performance of your iOS app

    How to improve the performance of your iOS app

    Having a smooth and responsive application is one of those requirements that is not always easy to face. In this article, which is mostly…
    Go to the profile of Alessandro Francucci
    Alessandro Francucci
    May 23, 2018
    You are never done securing your software

    You are never done securing your software

    Digesting Ying Li’s PyCon 2018 keynote speech
    Go to the profile of Fabrizio Scandola
    Fabrizio Scandola
    May 18, 2018
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