TechThursday is here folks!

Cirpo talked about Vagrant and Docker for the 2nd Dubytes Meet up, woo hoo! See him in action

Chances are Lucio is gonna talk about Isomorphic javacript for the next meet up.

And here you have the usual list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend

• Moment is quickly becoming my new jQuery

• 10 Years of Git

• Why is Node.js single threaded?

• List of devops resources with free tiers

• Meet #microsoft’s Project Spartan

Website performance is the hot topic these days. In fact, performance is becoming a critical factor for websites. First, users really love fast loading websites. Second, performance affects the SEO page ranking. According to Google, page load speed is one of the key parameters of their ranking algorithm. Thus, it is critical for websites to improve page speed performance – not just for improving users experience, but also for winning against their competitors in Google search results.

For E-commerce websites, this is super critical. If you’re not clear, see the results from Amazon after improving their website page performance:

For every 1 second of improvement they experienced up to a 2% increase in conversions. For every 100 ms of improvement, they grew incremental revenue by up to 1%

Improving page load time

Browsers spend most of the time downloading resources. If the resources ( JS, CSS ) are inside the HEAD tag, the browser has to download all of them before parsing the HTML. Therefore, users won’t be able to see anything on the screen till all the resources are downloaded.

#TechThursday time!

Do you really need a desk to code ???

… Just do it!

Lucio’s way

Here is the usual “selection” of links our team found interesting this week , enjoy:

• Zoom on PHP objects and classes

• Salary Negotiations: Win by Losing

• Behat – Page Object Extension

• Page object pattern

• Of course it’s difficult…

• Code As Documentation

• Active listening

Another thursday, another weekly newsletter from the Namshi team!

Before diving deep into our weekly list of links, we wanted to wish Cirpo best of luck for his 2 talks at the Codemotion in Rome!

TechThursday is here folks!

News from the IT Team:

As you may have heard we have a new joiner in the backend team: welcome David!

And here you have the usual list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend under your beach umbrella between your dives (if you are in the area of course :P):

• Harmful GOTOs, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths are the Root of all Evil

• Dont depend on javascript to render your pages

• Nodejs: streaming data to the serial port

• Using ECMAScript 6 today

We are very excited to welcome David to the crazy Namshi IT team!

David is an experienced programmer, with a great knowledge about Agile, managing teams, OOP, design patterns and best practices.

Other than wakeboarding in his free time, he likes to contribute to the IT communities, check his
presentations!

Again, welcome on board David!

It’s #TechThursday again!

It’s true that we are nerds but it’s also true that we are working for a fashion company.

This is one of our attempts to get more fashionable:

Here is the traditional “selection” of links our team found interesting this week , enjoy:

• Using the HTML5 History API

• What UX Can Learn from Print

• Linux insides ebook

• V8 – Experimental new directions for Javascript

Howdy people, it’s #TechThursday at #namshi, again! Hope you missed us ;)

First things first:

We’re helping to kick start a new cross-tech community here in Dubai:

DUBYTES, this is the name, met yesterday for the 1st time and James Whelton gave an interesting quick introduction to React. We’ll meet every 1st Wednesday of the month, and if you love technology as much as we do: drop by and join us for a nice discussion. Feel free to ping us on twitter to know the next venue: speech proposals are welcome too! More news to come on this!

And here is the traditional “selecta” of links our team found interesting this week around the interwebs, enjoy:

• A 90 minute overview of ECMAScript 6

• Find out what websites are Built With

• Loupe is a little visualisation to help you understand how JavaScript’s call stack/event loop/callback queue

• open data in SF municipality with APIs

Yesterday we took some time off from work to enjoy Martin Fowler’s take on microservices, so I wanted to recap what I really liked about the video.

Hi there! It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

• Understanding ReactJS rendering

• Flux for Stupid People

• What the Flux? (On Flux, DDD, and CQRS)