agile

Ready! Set! Retrospect! Breaking the ice on Agile Retrospectives

There are a lot of glitches or complications that might arise when facing retrospectives in which a team should come clean on opinions and experiences, about themselves or about each other. Let’s dig out and analyze some of the problems we could be facing and, hopefully, sweep them off the board.

programming

Is Go simple?

Golang authors and promoters claim one of the biggest benefits of the language is being *"simple"*

frontend

Frontend frameworks: Criteria & tips to become proficient with new tools

The goal of this post isn't to analyze which framework is better, but to provide a set of tools and a couple of tips to ease the learning of a new framework In

tdd

6 tips for a powerful TDD session

TDD is ~95% practice. The theory about it is really simple and you may already know the Red-Green-Refactor cycle and what to do in each step. Practice is harder, and it's always beneficial

java

Java Micro benchmarks (or how to enjoy holidays)

Brief tutorial for setting up a jmh project to measure performance of java code using micro benchmarks

testing

Isolating integration tests from external HTTP services with Talkback

A good test (be it unit or integration) should be fast, isolated, repeatable and in total control of its context. If you're doing integration tests that make real HTTP calls to external services, you're instantly breaking those 4 requirements.

Nuestra Política de la Calidad

¿Qué es la calidad para 10Pines? Como parte del cumplimiento de la norma ISO 9001:2015 hemos formalizado en 10Pines nuestra política de la calidad que se basa en tres sencillos pero importantísimos

devops

First steps on container orchestration using Docker Swarm

Docker has become an essential tool in my daily life as a developer. From my first experiences, I have tried to include it in my projects, and over time I have managed to

Environment-based substitution in Angular 4

In this post we’ll cover the necessary knowledge to implement environment-based substitution. What do we mean by environment-based substitution? Environment-based substitution is being able to dynamically change the objects used by an

Una bocanada de aire fresco en la academia

Introducción Hace unas semanas cursé una de las mejores materias del master. Se llamaba Art & Management y fue dictada por Andrés Hatum en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Después de respirar tanto

animations

Creating SVG animations with Snap.svg

Animations can go a long way in making your application feel more attactive, friendly and immersive. Using SVG as the foundation of them, you'll get resolution independent, responsive animations, that might otherwise be difficult to build. Let's see how we can create one...

security

How to communicate via HTTPS between two Tomcat servers using a self-signed certificate

TL;DR There is no need to pay for an SSL certificate in order to communicate two applications through a REST API over HTTPS. You just need to know a few things about

programming

When we get stuck

Have you ever been in that position where your code does not progress? Don't worry! That's one of hardest things to overcome while writing code. Being such a common problem in our daily

culture

¿Qué signfica "Sin Jefes"?

To see this article in English, click here. Esta semana, un diario argentino publicó un artículo sobre la forma en la que nos organizamos en 10Pines. Resumiéndolo un poco: La compañía no tiene

culture

What does "No bosses" mean

Para ver el post en español, hacé click acá This week an Argentinian newspaper published an article about the way we organize ourselves here at 10Pines. Summarizing the article a little bit: The

programming

Technical Debt: the most forgotten (and hated) feature

Is technical debt an issue that only appears in an ongoing project or it is something that starts at the beginning? Let's say I believe it's the latter. I'm going to try to

programming

Dissecting a fresh elixir application

Introduction In this post we will explaining some key concepts of the Elixir language using the code generated by the Phoenix project template and some handpicked examples. The only previous knowledge assumed is

recruiting

Selecting the seeds for our pines - Our recruiting process

I'm going to tell you two stories about recruiting and its process. The no time for important things contradiction One day my friend Tamila comes to me complaining about her team. She was

css

CSS: From I hate it, to I actually like this thing

I remember on my early days as a web developer I'd get a task that sounded so simple "Hey Ignacio, we need to add a small red button bellow this form. It

business

To Care or Not to Care

That is the question! A week ago I had an interview with a potential new client who owns a startup company that is related to sports activities. This potential new client, let’s

development

The Many Facets Of Quality

Some time ago, in a talk, someone asked "What is software quality, what gives quality to software?". My immediate half-joking answer was "Software shouldn't get in my way, that's quality!

business

Trapped by transparency or trapped by culture?

Transparency has become one of the most popular demands in the recent years and for good reasons. Not so far ago, we went through one of the biggest global financial crisis, caused by

learning

From a newbie, to a newbie

It's been less than a year since I joined 10Pines, and a little more than two since I started working officialy as a programmer. I don't like calling myself a junior developer because

tdd

An Inverted Test Pyramid

I believe that most of us are familiar with the concept of "Test Pyramid", a simple heuristic originally described by Mike Cohn, that is that a project should aim to have

oop

Collection Filters in Ruby

Note: acknowledgements (and thanks!) to Máximo Prieto (our OOP guru) who had this idea and he implemented it on Smalltalk. The problem We want to have a collection that filters its elements as