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Optimizing the Future of Global Humanitarian Efforts
The European and Americas winners of the Toptal Scholarship for Women are reinvigorating global humanitarian efforts by applying cutting-edge technologies to refugee relief and scientific research.
Toptal Research
Toptal is an exclusive network of the world’s top freelance developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers.
Form and Function: A Guide to the Top Wireframe Tools
Wireframes at various fidelities are an important deliverable that facilitate the UX design process as it moves through its phases. This guide provides an overview of the top tools most designers use.
Shane Ketterman
Shane comes from a background in architecture, information technology, customer experience, and UX design.
How to Approach Modern WordPress Development (Part 1)
It’s no secret that the WordPress codebase is a mess. Many developers use its legacy code as an excuse for writing sloppy code themselves, even if its newer additions follow best practices. If this is you, it’s time to level up your skills!
Andrey Shalashov
Andrey is a full-stack web developer and WordPress expert. Lately, his focus is on serverless computing and JAMstack.
A Look at JavaScript’s Future
In the past few years, we’ve seen the introduction of a lot of new technologies in JavaScript, but we needed time to see how the market was going to adopt them.
In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Alejandro Hernandez takes a look at how popular JavaScript is becoming and the factors that may have affected this popularity, and he tries to predict what the future of JavaScript will look like.
Alejandro Hernandez
Alejandro is a full-stack architect working on JavaScript projects, where his experience and understanding of architecture is most impactful.
Product Management Empowered by the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Successful product managers channel their inner entrepreneur to deliver outstanding products. Sometimes referred to as mini-CEOs, product managers can learn valuable lessons from entrepreneurship.
Steve Pomroy
With 22+ years as an entrepreneur, Steve combines business & technical excellence to create winning solutions for pressing customer problems.
The Power of Choice: Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital
As a founder, how should you fund your startup? Bootstrapping and venture capital both come with advantages and limitations, but this framework can help you compare the two options and make the best decision for your business.
Pala Kuppusamy
Pala is a seasoned finance professional with expertise in startups and their funding. He has served as CEO of several high-tech startups, and, as a successful IT entrepreneur, he has founded, grown, and exited two ventures.
Approaching the Website Design Process From the Browser
Some designers are bypassing traditional design tools, going straight to code, building and adjusting designs in-browser, and testing their designs as they would appear to people in real-time.
Lucijan Blagonic
Lucijan has 10+ years of experience planning, prototyping, designing, and coding standards-compliant, responsive websites, and interfaces.
What Is PMO? A Guide to Project Management Office
Ever wondered how to successfully improve the delivery of projects in your organization? Using PMO best practices, business can drive consistent delivery of projects in today’s competitive environment.
Simone Theeboom
Simone is a seasoned agile product manager boasting 15 years of experience delivering digital journeys that delight online customers.
HorusLP-Gurobi: High-level Optimization Architecture for Gurobi
Commercial solvers such as Gurobi are playing an increasingly important role in optimization, and they tend to boast more features than open-source solutions.
In this article, Toptal Python Developer Sean Wang explains how you can integrate the HorusLP package with Gurobi’s API to harness its most advanced features.
Shanglun Wang
Sean is a passionate polyglot developer with extensive experience in full-stack web development, system administration, and data science. He has developed everything from machinery interfaces to market intelligence software.
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