businessDo you know how your customers use your product?When create your own startup and have a technological background, as I do, is very easy to think that what your customers need is a product full of features. But what your customers need is a product that makes their lives easier.
web-developmentNginx: upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstreamAfter updating my server to Meteor version 1.4.3.1 I've been experiencing some problems with Nginx.All services looked fine but when requesting a page...
businessWhy every startup should start bootstrappedA bootstrapped startup can be harder to evolve than a seeded startup but the journey is very rewarding, you will learn a lot of things and you are going to love every single minute of it.
businessWould you spend $1.5 million in a domain name?What leads someone to spend $1.5 million in a single domain? SumoMe has recently did that buying sumo.com They think big and they spend big.
businesspeer-to-peer rewards as a way of recognition at workIn most companies recognition usually comes “from above” but when you receive recognition from one of your co-workers then things change, you feel proud and happy. Your self-esteem increases as do your sense of belonging to the team.
businessHow to manage remote workers. Learning from the experts.Hiring people is not an easy process. Hiring remote workers makes things even harder. For many companies “Seeing is believing” and they find disturbing the fact that some of their workers will never set foot in the office.
businessHow to give feedback to your project managerStatus reports are a very good source of information for project managers, as long as they are frequent (ideally every week). For employees, this is a good opportunity to indicate what can be improved and what is working fine. Once you get into the routine writing a status report should take no more than 5 minutes.
businessTeam management for startups and distributed teamsManaging a team with remote workers or managing distributed teams requires that communication should be fluid. It is very easy (and dangerous) to lose contact when people are not one desk/room/floor away.
web-developmentMeteor reactive on updates but not on insertsAs soon as an activity was modified on the server the client was updated but new activities although were inserted correctly in the database were not updated on the client.
web-developmentMeteor tools: Shell - server consoleDebugging Meteor is easier since Meteor 1.0.2 Now we can use a console similar to the one we have available on the client. You just need to write meteor shell and all the power of a server-side console is available to you.
web-developmentDeveloping a web application with Meteor and React - Part IISecond post of Developing a web application with Meteor and React. In this second post we will see how to add a form with React, Meteor Allow/Deny security and how React can protect us against XSS attacks.
web-developmentDeveloping a web application with Meteor and ReactLearn how to use meteor and react to develop a modern web application. This is part 1 of the series. We will use coffeescript instead of plain javascript and the dabase will be mongodb.
businessSon felices tus empleados?Es una pregunta que en las últimas semanas me he hecho unas cuantas veces. Una de las responsabilidades de mi nuevo trabajo en [Conferize]( es la de gestionar un equipo de per...
web-developmentAño nuevo, vida nueva.El año ha comenzado con cambios para mí. Después de tres años he dejado mi trabajo en Sage.Han sido tres años fantásticos. He conocido a mucha gente estupenda y solo tengo palabras de agradecimiento ...
web-developmentMeteor - Desarrollando aplicaciones web en el siglo XXIHace unos días acabo de subir a producción mi primera aplicación web desarrollada íntegramente con Meteor. Estas son mis impresiones después de unos meses de probar este framework de desarrollo de aplicaciones web.