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Futurice Developer Newsletter

Good morning fellow developers!

As the summer turns into the fall, is there anything better than enjoying a cup of tea or hot chocolate to start your day? Maybe a few technical articles to inspire and educate!

Here's this month's collection of hand-picked articles to get your day started.

Articles that made us talk

 

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

 

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

“Throughout the history of software, there have been many instances where third-party extensions negatively affected a platform. In some cases, they slowed the tool to a crawl. In other cases, the plugins broke whenever new versions of the platform were released. To the extent that we could control it, we wanted users to have a better plugin experience with Figma.”

Remote Mob Programming

TLDR pages

 

TLDR Pages

Man pages are a great resource for how to use command line tools but it’s not the easiest to read when you just need to get something done. TLDR pages is a wonderful utility that gives you good examples for most common use cases and saves you a lot of headache.

Let the compiler do the work for you

Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration

 

Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration

For over 10 years now, caniuse.com has been a lifesaver when figuring out which features work in which browsers. Now, MDN is collaborating with Caniuse to bring even more information from their data to the developers of the web. If you are building something in the web and are not familiar with caniuse.com, I highly recommend checking it out.

Javascript: What's new in ES2019

Explicitness and Consistency in UI

 

Explicitness and Consistency in UI

In this talk from Futurice Tech Weeklies, Farzad Yousefzadeh talks about hidden complexities in UIs, proper domain modelling and how we underestimate this complexity. Modern UIs are challenging to build because there are so many different ways of interacting with them with different devices, and because there are so many different states your application can be in.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cloud

Upcoming Events

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Mimmit Koodaa workshops

In November, we are hosting two Mimmit Koodaa workshops. The registration will open later at link below.


Mimmit Koodaa workshops

Hacktoberfest x Futurice Helsinki 19.10.2019

Hacktoberfest x Futurice Helsinki

We are hosting Hacktoberfest events to celebrate open source across our sites in Europe. Our Helsinki workshop day is Saturday 19th of October.

Hacktoberfest x Futurice Helsinki

visit futurice events page

 

Jobs

Senior Architect Helsinki

As an Architect, you'll be part of a talented team with diverse backgrounds and leave your mark on our growing and developing consulting competence as we expand. We work across different architecture domains: DevOps, Cloud, Security, Data and AI.

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Lead Developer Helsinki

Do you possess serious software skills and can design, implement and deliver software at will? Do you want to lead software projects and teams? If so, you might be the person we are looking for!


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