Introduction In Laravel, we have several ways to work with a database. One of them is using raw SQL queries and commands via the query builder. The other way is using Eloquent ORM. Eloquent ORM is more common in everyday tasks since it simplifies our life and saves our time in the most basic things …
Introduction to Scrapy Scrapy is a powerful Python-based web crawling framework that helps a developer to define how one or more websites can be scrapped. Scrappy uses crawlers called Spiders, which can extract, process, and save the data. Since Scrapy is built on Twisted, an asynchronous networking framework, its performance is extremely fast due …
ECMAScript 6, also called ES6 or ECMAScript 2015, is a specification standard that introduced some new exciting features to the JavaScript programming language intended to make your code more modern, readable, and versatile—especially when building large-scale applications. Apart from ES6, which was introduced in 2015, other specifications of the standard have continuously been released …
Gamification brings elements like rewards, points, rankings and techniques such as storytelling, into recruiting methodology for potential candidates. It is being used increasingly by companies in all its facets as it facilitates faster candidate-screening, teaches key values and processes, educates them on job content, tools and technologies and lastly, it challenges candidates on specific skill …
HealthTech companies use technology to improve the care delivery and consumption. We shortlisted 35 European HealthTech companies to better understand how they are revolutionizing our economies and divided them in 8 categories: 1) Service Search: companies using technology to improve doctors search, 2) Medical Big Data: companies providing big data analytics for medical application, 3) …
This week we interviewed Davide, PHP Ecosystem Developer at Contentful: he told us what led him to choose this career path after his language degree and what are the pros and cons of being a remote worker. Can you tell us what your job as a PHP Developer is about and how you chose this career …
This week we interviewed Michel Murabito (“Mich” for his friends), a 32 years old Senior Developer at Spindox: his motto is «Never Hesitate», in the last 18 years he devoted his life to coding and he likes to define himself as a Senior Web Developer by day and Aspiring Superhero by night. He gave us his personal …
Introduction Employer branding empowers companies to communicate to their potential candidates a series of economical, physiological and functional benefits that increase their desirability as an employer by depicting them the best place to work for. Employer branding is becoming the most effective tool that knowledge-intensive companies use to defend their competitive advantage and successfully attract …
This week we had a very insightful interview with Alessandro Muraro, Frontend Developer at navabi.de in Aachen (Germany): he told us how his passion for Lego led him to become a fronted developer and he shared many useful tips and resources for those who wish to follow his career path. What led you to become a …
Open-space offices are supposed to improve communication, facilitate team or project work and save space: open spaces offices have got a considerable success in the USA and started being more widespread in Europe since 1980. Anyway according to several researches, open-space offices rarely cater the variety of tasks required of modern workers. A recent study aimed to …