Lot’s has been said about password security, but still the majority of people, developers and users alike are doing it wrong. Here are a few notes that should help you not make a fool of yourself. I’ll talk about keeping your password safe, password length, what characters you should use, password prevalidation, storage, validation and… Read more →
A few months ago Iwein wrote an article about Continuous Deployment and what it takes to get there. It’s about time to get practical about that. How do you do it? It’s really simple. In this howto we’ll show you how to deploy a simple Jekyll application to Digital Ocean with Prudentia. But first let… Read more →
This post was written by Iwein Fuld, Founder of Capacitor, the workplace where companies develop their apps with the help of distributed teams. Sign up for Capacitor today and we’ll double your credits (up to €500) to hire a team for your project! You’re working on your product, the first version of your MVP is done… Read more →
Last week I wrote about what you can do to your body to become more productive. This week I’ll write about what you can do to your mind. I believe that fixing your physical well being is important to do first, it makes the mental part much easier to do. However, once you’ve got your… Read more →
I’ve done a lot of experimentation around my own productivity as a developer. For what it’s worth I think that the lessons I’ve learned from my failures and successes are worth sharing. Especially because in the startup community, everybody is trying to wring the best performance out of themselves, sometimes with devastating effects. This article… Read more →
Several of the most successful startups of the last decade use Continuous Delivery. It is used for example by Facebook, Twitter, Github just to name a few. There are huge benefits to it, so it might be a good choice for you too. In this post I’ll describe what you need to do to get… Read more →
Recently I needed to interact with a 3rd party webservice that wasn’t finished yet. You’ve probably been there. We decided to fake it until it is done. One option is to stub it away in the app, but we figured it would be nice if we created a real webservice instead so we can test… Read more →
StarterSquad is growing, and this has caused the need for scaling up our development capacity. Because the StarterSquad model is appealing to developers, recruiting hasn’t been much of a problem, but we did find an interesting challenge in scaling up our teams. Research has shown that the productivity of a team doesn’t scale linearly with… Read more →
I wrote earlier about our way of doing distributed development. The learning continues. In this post I explain the rules that we apply to ourselves to keep the team flow and collaboration going. These are the rules that make it possible for StarterSquad to deliver high quality MVPs. The rules are short, and easy to… Read more →
Cheap software has a lot of advantages. On a first glance it seems that cheap means low risk (unless you’re buying cheap explosives, but software is usually not that dangerous). If you don’t invest a lot in software you don’t have to write off a lot of money in case of a pivot. BUT, if… Read more →
AngularJS + RequireJS 
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