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Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Mar 13, 2017

Choose SQL

Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.

Again; don’t go with a NoSQL, key-value, distributed-whatever-data-store as the main database for your application. You will regret it — as we did with SourceLair…

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Marios Fakiolas in State of Progress

Apr 11, 2019

The biggest lies about React Hooks

I tend to listen and read really a lot about the meaning of React Hooks and how they help us to win…

Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Jun 27, 2017

Case Study: Inconsiderate User Interface inflicts financial losses

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Marios Fakiolas in State of Progress

Feb 24, 2019

People love remote working but only few really fit in this model

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Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Jun 7, 2018

Welcoming ≠ Accepting

Yesterday I witnessed impolite behavior by an xterm.js contributor. The issue started when they voluntarily opened up a Pull Request that we were skeptical about accepting.

To me it looks like there has been a huge misunderstunding in open source. Let’s clear…

Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Dec 5, 2016

Well-structured repositories

Anyone who has ever contributed code in a collaborative software project, had hard time doing so at some point.

Usually there were various reasons for this; you didn’t know where to start, you could not get things working, you had to review illegible…

Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Mar 19, 2018

Hype is ruining software

Every so often, I see developers getting excited about something new that just came up. This can be anything from a…

Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Jun 11, 2019

The Minimum Viable Product virtue

I love the idea of the minimum viable product. Identifying what is absolutely necessary for…

Paris Kasidiaris in State of Progress

Dec 26, 2017

Polish it

It’s been lots of years since I found any new app and enjoyed using it.

Most new applications that get released these days are just junk that “kinda” looks good. They are either too buggy, or too slow or they just have a User Interface that looks shinny, while it does not help its…

Marios Fakiolas in State of Progress

Jul 14, 2019

The business value of React Hooks is huge

React Hooks were officially released in February of 2019 and since then the frontend…

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