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Preventing erroneous Rails migrations
Preventing erroneous Rails migrations
At Tanda, we’ve never really had a smooth ride with migrations, a medium-sized development team, and shared development resources (such as…
Dave Allie
Jun 21, 2019
Building the Tanda App
Building the Tanda App
Before 2017, Tanda did not offer a mobile app. It was clear that building a mobile app was an important step to take to make our product…
Liam Sheppard
Apr 28, 2019
What a product manager is… and is not
What a product manager is… and is not
Product management is a relatively new field and as a result, there are lots of interpretations of what it actually means. Depending on…
Renee Phelan
Jan 22, 2019
Designing Rosters in the Tanda Mobile App
Designing Rosters in the Tanda Mobile App
In January 2017, I started my summer internship at Tanda. Our task was to design and build the Tanda Mobile App — a pretty daunting task…
Liam Sheppard
Oct 28, 2018
Dangerfile and Git and GitHub
Dangerfile and Git and GitHub
To someone unfamiliar with the internal workings of Danger, it’s not particularly obvious how one is meant to interact with Git and GitHub…
Declan Haigh
Oct 11, 2018
Getting started with React Native: A designer’s experience
Getting started with React Native: A designer’s experience
Lessons learned from jumping head first into React Native
Kelvin O'Shea
Sep 26, 2018
Rails teams, what are you meant to do with structure.sql?
Rails teams, what are you meant to do with structure.sql?
One of the big unsolved mysteries about building a Rails app in a team — at least, in my team — is what you should do about the…
Alex Ghiculescu
Sep 12, 2018
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The only reason to build software is to sell it
The only reason to build software is to sell it
When we were a small young company, this quote went unsaid and was probably fairly obvious, because we had no other option. If we couldn’t…
Alex Ghiculescu
Jul 19, 2018
Antifragility and git flow
Antifragility and git flow
Antifragility is a concept coined by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb to describe things that benefit from randomness, chaos, or disorder. As…
Alex Ghiculescu
Jul 11, 2018
5 things you should forget when you finish uni
5 things you should forget when you finish uni
It’s that time of the year again when a whole bunch of students are finishing uni, and a bunch more are looking forward to spending the…
Alex Ghiculescu
May 28, 2018
How to Review Code
How to Review Code
We recently shipped a bug that broke our credit card form.
Declan Haigh
May 20, 2018
We user-tested with people who never used a smartphone before…
We user-tested with people who never used a smartphone before…
Last week concluded a round of user-testing on a newly designed onboarding flow for people who visit our web-based product, My Tanda, from…
Brod Gaggi
May 14, 2018
Tanda Hackathon 2018
Tanda Hackathon 2018
When I first heard about the Hackathon, I was a bit skeptical. I mean, the name itself sounds absolutely terrifying to someone who doesn’t…
Amanda Chen
May 1, 2018
What do you do here? (Growth Gang edition)
What do you do here? (Growth Gang edition)
From the outside looking in, it’s sometimes hard to know what everyone at a software as a service company actually does. Tanda employs over…
Alex Ghiculescu
May 1, 2018
The design sprint: the best tool for solving tricky problems in a team
The design sprint: the best tool for solving tricky problems in a team
I joined Tanda a little over two years ago as designer, since then we have released lots of features in the product, and in doing so…
Renee Phelan
Apr 26, 2018
Tanda Student Clubs Promise
Tanda Student Clubs Promise
At Tanda we love student clubs. Tanda was born out of a student club at QUT where our four founders met. As we’ve grown the business, we’ve…
Dave Allie
Apr 24, 2018
Brisbane Tanda Hackathon 2018
Brisbane Tanda Hackathon 2018
Last weekend was the annual Tanda Brisbane Hackathon, our fifth and largest hackathon event in 4 years. With 160 tickets sold and the…
Dave Allie
Apr 24, 2018
Top secret career tip: tell people what you want to achieve
Top secret career tip: tell people what you want to achieve
I recently announced a fairly significant change to our team structure. One of our engineers, let’s call him Declan, is going to move to…
Alex Ghiculescu
Apr 23, 2018
Looking back on 4 years of Hackathons
Looking back on 4 years of Hackathons
Next weekend is the 5th Tanda Hackathon, and the 4th in Brisbane. This year Tanda’s CTO, Dave Allie, has taken over the reigns in running…
Alex Ghiculescu
Apr 13, 2018
Releasing a React Native application
Releasing a React Native application
How we handle releasing an app across multiple pipelines to maintain stability and developer velocity
David Buchan-Swanson
Apr 12, 2018
A Beachside Retreat for the Tanda Product Team
A Beachside Retreat for the Tanda Product Team
What happens when work and play collide?
Brooke Royston
Mar 22, 2018
Why do we ‘prefer-const’
At Tanda, on all of our newer projects, we use a fairly strict ESLint config. This is largely due to the fact that I’m a bit of a tooling…
David Buchan-Swanson
Jan 8, 2018
Why is Postgres BETWEEN so slow?
Why is Postgres BETWEEN so slow?
We recently started using PGanalyze, which is amazing. Today I spent some time trying to speed up some of the slowest queries in Tanda. The…
Alex Ghiculescu
Dec 26, 2017
My Tanda Hack Lyf
This guest post was written by Harris Jubb, a participant at the 2017 Tanda Hackathon.
Alex Ghiculescu
Nov 15, 2017
What I learned from my first hackathon
This guest post was written by Clancy Schuller, a participant at the 2017 Tanda Hackathon.
Alex Ghiculescu
Nov 7, 2017
What I learned from the Tanda Hackathon
This guest post was written by Kalina S, a participant at the 2017 Tanda Hackathon.
Alex Ghiculescu
Nov 7, 2017
EC2 fun with Tanda webhooks
This guest post was written by Bernd Hartzer, who competed at the 2017 Tanda Hackathon.
Alex Ghiculescu
Nov 7, 2017
Hooking into a Hackathon with Tanda
This guest post was written by Dom Tuck, a member of the Customer Success team at Tanda.
Alex Ghiculescu
Nov 6, 2017
Brisbane Hackathon 2017
The third annual Tanda Hackathon in Brisbane was on last weekend. 20 teams competed and presented in what was our biggest Brisbane…
Declan Haigh
Nov 5, 2017
Javascript and the pernicious equals operator
It’s no secret that Javascript has some interesting quirks. A common source of confusion is the way Javascript implicitly coerces variables…
Jun Ling
Oct 29, 2017
A beginner’s guide to using webhooks
A beginner’s guide to using webhooks
Coming to the Tanda Hackathon this weekend? This guide will step you through how to get started using webhooks with Tanda.
Alex Ghiculescu
Oct 23, 2017
Fixing an intermittently failing test in our QUnit suite
Fixing an intermittently failing test in our QUnit suite
For a while now there’s been a bunch of intermittently failing javascript unit tests in our codebase. They’ve always been a bit of a minor…
Alex Ghiculescu
Sep 25, 2017
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