Previously, we discussed ways that you can maximize the success of the code reviews you request from your peers. However, preparing a good code review is only half of the story. There is a lot you can do as a reviewer of code reviews to make your review as helpful…
Recently I had the opportunity to upgrade the Play Framework from 2.3 to 2.5 on all of Lucid’s JVM-based services. A lot of the upgrade involved pretty routine things like changing implicit parameters from Lang to Messages or updating uses of play-json to match the new API. However, over the…
Code reviews: Some love them, some hate them, but most probably see them as no better than a necessary evil. As a result, we often view them as a mundane task to check off the list–a final gatekeeper before our wonderful features or bug fixes can begin their journey into…
The Angular 2 change detection system is somewhat of a black box: you update some variables in the model, and the components update automatically. Thoughtram, Victor Savkin, and other websites have written some excellent posts explaining change detection (which we reference in this post). Often, these posts present a series…
As an engineer reviewing failing tests, there is almost nothing worse than trying to debug and investigate a flaky test. A flaky test is one that when run multiple times, it sometimes passes and sometimes fails. From a developer perspective, tests are supposed to just work. When they fail, they…
Angular 2 has several different paradigms for bootstrapping an application. The default platform that is used in Angular’s examples is the dynamic browser platform. Platform browser means that this application is going to be bootstrapped in a browser and will therefore have direct access to the DOM and other browser…
Let’s be honest. Setting up a “modern” front end application in 2016 can be painful. Luckily the Angular 2 team has provided a command line tool, angular-cli, to help ease the pain. Although it is still in beta, angular-cli is a great way to set up an Angular 2 project…
When I was tasked with creating a presentation to share with my co-workers at our weekly tech talk, I chose to use LaTeX. While I briefly considered other tools, like Google Slides or PowerPoint, using LaTeX allowed me to easily separate the styling from my content and create my own…
Warning! This article includes the word “monad,” which has strange effects on programmers. While I reference the idea, you do not need to “get” monads for the article to make sense. It can be understood simply as a fancy use of functional programming. In my last article, I described how…
Companies across all industries are increasingly adopting cloud technologies. Naturally, many Visio users move to Lucidchart as they step into a more modern, collaborative, and integrated diagramming environment. To help make their transition as smooth as possible, users can import existing Visio documents into Lucidchart. We’re constantly collecting feedback on…