Many, if not most teams nowadays are distributed. While remote collaboration reunites talented people from around the globe, it also comes with its challenges. Today, we tackle the topic of effective stakeholder management in distributed teams with Brindusa Duma, project manager of Entourage, a successful social network developed in a distributed team environment. First of all, ...

This article is the third part of "Eliminating Code Smells Through the Use of Simple Refactorings". In the first two parts, we wrote about refactoring through simple changes and execution path changes. You can access these articles on our blog–Part 1 and Part 2. In the present article, we give a few tips and examples on refactoring through design changes. Design changes usually ...

The article is a continuation of "Eliminating Code Smells Through the Use of Simple Refactorings" where we wrote about refactoring through simple changes. You can access the article here: http://www.blog.tecknoworks.com/posts/code-smells-1/  In this part, we give a few tips and examples on refactoring through execution path changes. Execution path changes. These are more comple ...

Since we enjoy being up-to-date with everything that makes this world run so fast, we couldn’t miss this year’s Microsoft Summit that took place in Bucharest around the topic of digital transformation. In case you couldn’t make it or just want a recap., here are a couple of inside scoops. As soon as we arrived at the location, we printed our passes and stepped into a world we l ...

Synopsis  I’m going to start off by explaining the concept of refactoring, what is it useful at and when it should be applied. Then I’m going to dive into the three big types of refactorings that I’ve come across in my experience: the simple changes, the execution path changes and the design changes. In order to determine the need for refactoring we must be able identify certai ...

Stardate 23018.1 or 21st of July 1969, mankind takes its first steps on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin safely land the Lunar Module Eagle on the surface of the Moon.   Meet Margaret Hamilton, the woman who in 1965 lead the Software Engineering Division at MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. In the picture below, she is standing next to the printed ...

With the rapid advance in technology, programming languages and user research, software projects today are more complex than even before. And so is software testing. To deliver competitive software products on the market, a culture of quality is essential at every level of the organization. With all this complexity, the tester’s job can be quite challenging, especially for test ...

2 days. 12 hours of intense coding. More than 40k data points and 700 lines of code. Tons of coffee. We can predict the future. Tecknoworks wins first place. This pretty much sums up our experience at the 2016 CEE Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Hackathon. For me personally, it has been an incredible learning experience that I would recommend on top of each coder’s bucket list ...

This September, we celebrated 15 years of Tecknoworks. And we wanted to make it special. The company was founded in Deva under the name of “SmartTech 2000”. So we decided to head to where it all began, the county of Hunedoara, in a beautiful location with a medieval feeling called Conacul Archia, where we could remember the good old days. We spent a really nice evening there. T ...

Throughout the development phase of a software product, there comes a time when the source code needs maintaining. Think of it like a nice living fence that needs trimming every other week, to make sure it has just the right shape and aesthetics. That's right—code can, and should be aesthetic, easy to read and comprehend. The process through which one achieves this is refactori ...