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Let’s talk about the ecommerce development process and the specific steps you need to take to prove your company profitable without added stress on your end as a business owner.

Because there are so many unique considerations and nuances to account for in the healthcare industry, Mobile Health App Development is not like other app development projects. If developing or refreshing a mobile health app is in the pipeline for your business, ensure the success of your app by following the following considerations.

Developers Himaja Suman and Anika Corpus from Cox Automotive take us through Kelley Blue Book's decision to implement microservices and how it improved the development process for their engineers.

If you’ve been in the business for a long time, you’re probably designing and developing your web content using “desktop first” practices. That has been the industry standard for years. After all, the web was born on desktop devices, and it’s hard to depart from decades of this legacy experience and thinking. However, it may be time to switch things up. The success of your business depends on it.

Make using redux fun again using the Rematch library

Curious about how Kubernetes works? Here's the second part of a blog post that will help catch you up to speed.

Do you speak the same language as your software development supplier? Are you on the same page? Are their operations transparent enough? Or is your project in danger of crashing off the road in the first curve?

It's 11/23—Happy Fibonacci Day! Some interesting facts about the peculiar number sequence.

Jonny Burger joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Jonny is a serial hackathon participant and Winner, an independent app developer, and a dedicated runner (over 1337 days in a row!!) Learn his secrets to success in this week's episode!

An overview of the changes added to React DevTools 4.

Well I hope you enjoy listening to myself and John when we interview guests, because this week we are interviewing each other! Get to know (way too much) more about us in this week's entertaining, tech podcast mix!

The importance of UX, from a business perspective.

A more collaborative approach, getting back to the roots

From Stark Headquarters, in Irvine, California, in the heart of Orange County, brings you Episode 22 of The C-Life: Removing Middle Management and Building a Trusting Company.

This is part of a series of blog posts written over the last six years. The blog posts are about mobile development technologies. They don't go really deep into the technical details, but rather provide an overview of the techs: when you should use them and when not to.

Here are a few of the most common Product Owner related issues that many development teams are experiencing.

Ever made an app that is impossible to use? There’s a chance you have. Technology users are a diverse bunch, which means that some of your users are using your app much differently than you would expect.

Even though Augmented Reality is still young, the AR hype train is gathering momentum steadily, as more and more companies invest in the technology.

“Something’s a little bit off here.” That’s what I predict your first thought to be upon seeing my cubicle for the first time. There’s no screen or mouse in sight. Instead there’s a guy hammering away on a keyboard, staring at seemingly nothing.

The American Advertising Foundation of Orange County recognizes Vincit's achievements at the 2020 ADDY Awards.

In a time of so much uncertainty, you may begin to experience feelings of confusion, stress, and anxiety. Avoiding these emotions can be difficult when all you see are mass closures, empty shelves at the grocery store, and social distancing. Some of us may feel powerless and hopeless adjusting to this “new norm” but with the proper coping mechanisms you won’t need to worry.

Hamid Badiozamani and Di Le from BrainCorp discuss how their company designs and builds robots that have to deal with the complexity that comes with interacting with humans while performing their designated tasks.

A software or app development project is a large undertaking and not only do you want to make sure you have the right partners with you, but you want to ensure that you have the right relationship and process in place. Whether you are going in house or working with a software development vendor, there are universal practices to ensure a successful working relationship. Today, I’ll walk you through what this successful software development relationship looks like.

Creating mobile user interfaces for Apple devices is getting better with the new SwiftUI framework!

At Vincit California we are excited to announce that our top-notch custom software development and our glowing reputation have earned us a spot on the 2019 Clutch 1000.

James Snell recently spoke at a NodeJS OC event, giving a presentation entitled "A QUIC bit of fun with Node.js." Read a full transcript of the talk here.

When properly utilized, outsourcing can help streamline your business operations more strategically and help you gain a competitive advantage. In software development, outsourcing can yield the highest quality results most efficiently but it's significant to know when and how to outsource software development.

Laurence Bradford joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Laurence is the founder of the immensely popular Learn to Code with Me podcast and blog! She has dedicated her career to educating and encouraging developers as they continue to practice their skills and grow their careers! Today, you can Learn to Code with Laurence on Duck Tapes!

The self-taught, public learning SWYX joins us on Duck Tapes! Currently working with Netlify's DX team, he strongly advocates for people to learn in public!

We welcome Eemeli into the duck pond! He has extensive experience working on multiple open source projects, and shares with us his coding process (and how he helped bring WorldCon to Helsinki for the first time)!

We welcome Kent C. Dodds! We had a great conversation with Kent discussing his amazingly successful JavaScript Testing course, participation in open source projects, and fantasy novels!

AAFOC Podcast Series

Vincit visited JSConf Hawai’i in February 2019. Here's our findings about the conference.

The importance of supplier recognition.

This is the second post in the ‘How to use RxSwift with MVVM’ series. This time we will create a view that we can use to create and update friends to the server.

In case YAML is not a familiar term, it brands itself as a "human friendly data serialization standard", and as such it's one of the most common configuration file formats that are currently in use.

There often is quite a bit of confusion about what “UX designers” and “service designers” actually do in a software project.

We've got a "Fun Committee" who come up with fun team building events each month. There's no stuffy CEO coming up with painfully boring events, the team plans them.

Here at Vincit California, we have helped clients from Fortune 500 healthcare companies to small healthcare start-ups develop their healthcare applications. Through our wide range of experiences, we have found that the healthcare industry has some unique requirements that many other verticals who are developing applications do not have to consider.

With the growing number of companies considering the switch to remote work, here are some useful tips and suggestions from our experience at Vincit to help those looking to transition into telecommuting operations.

Profit by striving for simplicity. Dig deep into the core of your idea and hold on to it with all your might. Just say ‘no’ and increase the value of your project by leaving out all gimmickry.

2019 was a thrilling year at Vincit California.

I love painting and painting is fun. What's also extremely fun is using a fascinating technique in Deep Learning known as Style Transfer to make an ordinary picture assemble some most famous artists' styles and create your very own piece of art. In this post I will show you some fun experiments I did with various styles.

Container orchestration, controller managers, worker nodes with kubelets, what does it all mean? If you're confused or just curious about Kubernetes, you've come to the right place.

A look at form vs function from a UX designers perspective

This blog post discusses tokens and their implementation considerations used by OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols.

Healthy client-vendor relationship is always a two-way street and software development is no exception.

Nader Dabit shares his AWS expertise! DevOps is more intimidating than it is difficult, especially with AWS Amplify.

Scott Tolinski hops into the duck pond to discuss break dancing, working for Ford, working for himself, and developing Level Up Tutorials. At some point a baby and a dog make an appearance. Join us, and come hear from Scott!

Learn the most advanced recruiting techniques. Land the most desirable talent. Launch your company towards massive success. This is the Hire Power Radio Show with Rick Girard.

How one of the Beatles’ most famous songs is actually a groundbreaking early look at life in the tech industry.

Storybook is an environment for developing interactive component libraries for the most popular frontend frameworks, such as React, Angular and Vue. It allows everybody who's participating in a project, including designers, developers and even the customer, to interact with the designed components.

Gather around and hear the origin story of the infamous Vincit VW Bus

As we race into 2019, here is a quick video and update of all the exciting things that happened for Vincit California in 2018

This article is all about how to use RxSwift with MVVM. RxSwift has been a hot topic in the swift community for a few years now, but somehow I've managed to avoid it.

In a previous blog post about my summer at Vincit, I went over some general information and user experiences about HoloLens. This post picks up right where the last one ended and offers some insight in to the development process for HoloLens.

Vincit was founded in Tampere in 2007 but it has since expanded to Helsinki, Turku and all the way to California. Every month we have an internal meeting where we go through what has happened during the previous month. Here's how we do it.

Hopefully, you read my colleague and my own writing about how to buy a so-called development rescue a startup company. I will continue to list with five more reasons that will come from a business perspective.

In light of tough times, it has been noted that the infrastructure of American workforce can suddenly, and without warning, become centered around remote work, scarce business opportunity, and low-and-slow economic exchange. This type of “crash” can seem like a perfect time for a business to panic, but we’re here to tell you how to handle it properly and without fear.

The question has been around as long as software development has been around–should I completely rebuild my app or can I get by with incremental updates? The answer? You're going to love this. It depends on many factors. Don’t worry, I won’t leave you there. Today I’ll go through the different factors that will ultimately help you make the best decision.

AWS Amplify allows developers to effortlessly integrate powerful AWS services into their mobile and web apps. With Amplify, we can manage scalable backends, easily integrate our backend with our frontends, and automate application releases seamlessly.

Get to know the people behind the service. The road to success is paved with asking the right questions. Select a supplier that is able to give you convincing answers.

Adem Bilican plops into the duck pond this week to share his experience coming from native development with Java and Objective-C to working in React Native. Adem gives his advice (and encouragement!) regarding how to create your own native modules and exposing native functionality to the javascript thread. Also, he tries to get me to understand blockchain and cryptocurrency (with varying success).

In this episode, Alex Aranda discusses his current enrollment in a coding bootcamp, his motivation for switching careers, and strategies for his job hunt in the tech industry after he finishes the program.

Gant Laborde jumps in the duck pond to talk React Native, agency life, Progressive Web Apps, and running Chain React Conf in Portland each year.

Rachel Valentine joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Rachel excels as the Head of People for our Vincit California offices, and this week she shares how YOU can impress her and ace all of your future developer interviews! Listen Today!

William Candillon joins us this week on Duck Tapes! William is the creator of the YouTube series 'Can It Be Done in React Native?', and is sharing his tips and tricks for solving beautifully complex mobile animations in React Native! Listen Today!

PubNub is an easy to use, well documented and well-supported platform for enabling real-time capabilities for web, mobile, IoT and backend applications through their selection of over 70 SDKs. In addition to its Pub/Sub messaging, PubNub lets the user add additional functionality, such as filtering or modifying messages via serverless Functions, manage read/write access via the Access Manager and recognize device & user state via Presence.

First episode of our First series! Welcome to React Native: Getting Started! We are joined by special guest and fellow blogger Otto Kivikärki, a React Native specialist and our First returning guest!

We're coming back hot with the great Wes Bos! Wes joins us to share amazing details of his journey from customizing friends' Myspace profiles to teaching HUNDREDS of thousands of students through his personal online courses!

Creating a culture where people have a sense of ownership and they feel appreciated.

A quick-look at the possibilities of React Hooks.

We will take a look at how we can accelerate our GraphQL API development using Hasura.

Unit testing RxSwift apps is the topic I want to talk about today. This is the last part of my series ‘How to use RxSwift with MVVM’, where we have learned to use RxSwift by implementing the Friends application.

How functional programming in Clojure made me a better person

Subcontracting is stupid. I used to believe in this statement with all my heart. Especially outsourcing software development gave me an image of big balls of mud being produced by a faceless herd of Elbonian programmers.