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Software Reengineering: From Spaghetti to Clean Design
Inheriting someone else’s code can be a nightmare, especially when the code is poorly designed and lacks documentation. In this post, Toptal Engineer Juan Pablo Scida provides a case study of how he reengineered a chat server written in Node.js, transforming its original spaghetti code into a cleanly architected and designed piece of software.
Juan Pablo Scida
Juan is a software architect with more than 10 years of experience. He is a certified .NET and Java developer, and loves Node.js and Erlang.
Sass Style Guide: A Sass Tutorial on How to Write Better CSS Code
When working on big web applications as a team with other developers, code needs to be scalable and readable. This can be a challenging process when it comes to CSS, although preprocessors like Sass are available. But only using preprocessors will only get you so far. In this article, Toptal engineer Matias Hernandez presents a style guide with advice on how to improve the way you write your code.
Matias Hernandez
Matías is a software engineer with more than 7 years of work as a freelancer for companies all around the globe.
Embracing Sass: Why You Should Stop Using Vanilla CSS
CSS preprocessors have been around for quite a while now. These tools, among many things, promise convenience in writing style sheets for the web. However, not everyone is taking advantage of these utilities, and is still resorting to writing vanilla CSS. In this article, Toptal engineer Marcelo Mazza discusses some of the reasons why he thinks Sass is the way to go and why you should be using it in your projects.
Marcelo Mazza
Marcelo has 10+ years in UX, spanning various fields. He has solid knowledge of mobile platforms, UX, design, and front-end development
Automation in Selenium: Page Object Model and Page Factory
Proper test automation is a challenging yet essential ingredient for quality software applications. Explore maintainable test automation in Selenium, including Page Object model and Page Factory.
Dejan Zivanovic
Dejan is a senior QA engineer with significant experience in web and mobile testing. He has also worked extensively on Android app development.
Taming WebRTC with PeerJS: Making a Simple P2P Web Game
WebRTC has opened doors to all kinds of new peer-to-peer web applications and games that can run in the browser without the need of additional plugins. However, being a relatively new technology, it still poses some unique challenges to developers. PeerJS aims to tackle some of those challenges by providing an elegant API and insulating developers from WebRTC’s implementation differences. In this article, Toptal engineer Mahmud Ridwan provides an introductory tutorial to building a simple, peer-to-peer web game using PeerJS.
Mahmud Ridwan
Mahmud is a software developer with many years of experience and a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions.
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Responsive Design Is Not Enough, We Need Responsive Performance
Between square inch smart wristwatches and mammoth smart TVs, a responsive website capable of adapting to a wide array of screen sizes and device capabilities is something no one complains about. However, many websites are still plagued by desktop-first design paradigms, or mobile-first paradigms with absolutely no focus on performance. These traditional approaches to responsive web design have various shortcomings. Fortunately, some simple ideas can help solve these problems.
Vedran Aberle Tokić
With over two decades in full-stack development, Vedran’s a JavaScript veteran who loves to problem-solve user interfaces.
Why You Need to Upgrade to Java 8 Already
The newest version of the Java platform, Java 8, was released more than a year ago. Many companies and developers are still starting new applications with old versions of Java. There are very few good reasons to do this, because Java 8 has brought some important improvements to the language. I’ll show you a handful of the most useful and interesting ones.
Eduard Grinchenko
Eduard (MCE) is a talented Java engineer with rich expertise in OOP analysis. He’s worked the whole SDLC, from design to maintenance.
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