The age of Agile must end

30 years ago the technology industry attempted to import Lean practices — it failed. Instead of “continuous improvement,” progress halted. Agile is incompatible with UX research, design, and scalable development. It always will be. It’s time to create a new operational standard. Changing of the guards. Photo by Micah Kunkle on Unsplash As startups refocus on “operational efficiency,”… Continue reading The age of Agile must end

How to Integrate HubSpot with WooCommerce

As a business manager, you’re responsible for optimizing sales strategies, marketing activities, and communication methods to level up your business. Today, many online tools are available to make it easy for you to manage, market, and optimize your online store and boost your sales. HubSpot is one of these helpful online assistants that you can… Continue reading How to Integrate HubSpot with WooCommerce

How to Create an Online Fashion Portfolio in 5 Steps

If you’re someone who is interested in pursuing a career in clothing design, your skills aren’t the only factor in your success. To be taken seriously, you need a way to show that you know what you’re doing. That’s what your portfolio is for. You may have experience making your own clothes, but aspire to… Continue reading How to Create an Online Fashion Portfolio in 5 Steps

Flattening Contracts and Debugging with Remix — SitePoint

Smart contracts on the Ethereum main-net use real money, so building error-free smart contracts is crucial and requires special tools like debuggers. Remix IDE is the most fully-featured IDE for Solidity. Among other tools, it has an excellent step-by-step debugger. You can perform various tasks such as moving in time, changing the current step, exploring… Continue reading Flattening Contracts and Debugging with Remix — SitePoint

Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch

Last week on the code challenge #5 we looked at building a movie player using a provided API. Here is the solution to the challenge built with Vue.js. This week we’ll be building a Pomodoro timer. A Pomodoro timer is a time management tool which breaks down task completion time into intervals of about 25… Continue reading Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch

Build A Movie Player ― Scotch

Last week, we solved the code challenge #4: Build An Eye Tracking App with JavaScript. This week we will be looking at consuming API’s and utilizing APIs to fetch reusable data. The Challenge The challenge is basically to build a movie trailer player with image thumbnails for a playlist and a section to display selected… Continue reading Build A Movie Player ― Scotch

CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch

Welcome to our Code Challenge #3. Way back when about five years ago when we started Scotch.io, one of our very first articles was to create lightsabers using plain CSS. Let’s bring that back and see how we can build out the same thing in this week’s code challenge. The Challenge The challenge is to… Continue reading CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch

How to Create Custom View Controller Transitions and Animations

Introduction UIKit is a very powerful framework and provides various ways to transition between view controllers. Some of the animations provided by UIKit include horizontal sliding (via a push segue), vertical sliding, cross fade, and page curl. Sometimes, however, you need to have a custom transition between view controllers to create a compelling design or… Continue reading How to Create Custom View Controller Transitions and Animations