Dootrix’s most popular reads of 2017

(The best of our experts’ expertise)

Dootrix
The Reading Room
3 min readDec 20, 2017

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Our most popular articles of the year can all be corralled under the loose theme of expertise from experts, and if you missed them at the time, here’s the pick of the most read posts in our Reading Room on Medium.

Expert People

“That was such a beautiful reminder to me of why we do these things, which is forgetting the shit. It is experience over stuff.”

An interview with STA Travel’s Global Creative Director, Tor White, about authenticity being the driver of digital innovation, and other gems.

Technical Expertise

James Robinson was one of the lead developers on our project to build a self-checkout app for Suffolk Libraries, and he used that experience to write this super-useful, and highly appreciated technical walk-through.

Machine Learning Experts

Jamie Heuze was part of our team that won an innovation prize for using Machine Learning to try and fix one of the water industry’s most pressing problems. He explains how they approached the problem.

Expert Insight

Dootrix Technical Director, Kevin Smith, answers a semi-rhetorical question to one of the most talked about buzzwords (and misnomer) of 2017.

Experienced Geeks

If the price of buying an autonomous drone is putting you off, and you are a bit of a ‘tinkerer’, then Dan White and Jamie Brunton’s guide might be right up your street.

Software Developer’s Reading List

Exactly what it says on the tin; the must read books for software developers, crowd-sourced from our pros.

Best of the Toolbox

Our monthly round-up of the most useful tools for software engineers and app developers are one of the most popular things we do, and after the results were counted and independently verified, September’s Toolbox was judged to be The Most Useful of 2017. But they’re all worth a look.

That’s all for this year — keep following us in 2018 for more expertise, insight and useful tools.

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Dootrix
The Reading Room

Mobile, Cloud & IoT. Product Design. Software Development. Hampshire & Manchester.