How geolocation and big data can be used to the advantage of your business apps

Nearly all industries have improved their efficiency through the use of geolocation. When it is combined with big data it allows for greater client satisfaction including more individualized customer experience, better targeted marketing and enables you to learn more about your own company. Geolocation Apps & Big Data Geolocation is most commonly used in marketing […]
Build your own error monitoring tool

In this tutorial, I’ll describe how you can create your own error watcher. The final version of this project can be found on GitHub. I’ll later refer to the code from this repository, so you can check it out. Why use even a simple error monitoring tool? If your application is on the production or […]
How to do Vaadin QA like a Pro using Ghost Inspector

We’ve recently started the development of a Vaadin web application. We were faced with a UI testing problem: how to find the best element selectors for a dynamically generated GWT-based interface. We had two options: to use Vaadin TestBench or Ghost Inspector. Read on to see which one we’ve chosen and why. Vaadin application end-to-end […]
Show me your Definition of Done & I’ll tell you who you are

Analyzing a company’s Definition of Done (DoD) can tell you a lot about their work ethic and what they put the ‘quality’ sticker on. I’ll explain a few concepts about and around DoD to make it clearer. First question: do they have a DoD? There are some vendors who don’t have a DoD at all. […]