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Tech Laravel: Using Pagination, Sorting and Filtering with Your Tables

Laravel: Using Pagination, Sorting and Filtering with Your Tables

Introduction. In Laravel, when you create websites displaying some data, you almost always need to display tables of results (e.g. Products, Categories, etc). The problem with displaying these tables is that you need to make them sortable and filterable. Plus, you may need to paginate your results since the table may become very big and …

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Tech Laravel: Database Management with Eloquent ORM

Laravel: Database Management with Eloquent ORM

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 …

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Tech How to Scrape Amazon Reviews with Scrapy

How to Scrape Amazon Reviews with Scrapy

  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 …

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Tech Meritocracy and Fintastico strengthen their partnership

Meritocracy and Fintastico strengthen their partnership

&  Meritocracy, together with Fintastico, the “TripAdvisor” of financial services, in April 2018 started a partnership with the aim of increasing the visibility of the new Fintech industry plus to foster the development of a new corporate culture that can attract talents who can endure the new challenges imposed by the traditional financial sector. This …

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Tech 8 jobs that will be in demand in 2019

8 jobs that will be in demand in 2019

What are your resolutions for 2019? Are you looking for a new job opportunity? Are you aspiring to change your career path? Based on the work we’ve done this year and what recruiters have shared with us, here are 8 jobs whose demand will increase sharply in 2019. Be prepared for the future! Start learning …

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Interviews Michele Nasti, Software Developer @Bemind Interactive

Michele Nasti, Software Developer @Bemind Interactive

This week we interviewed Michele Nasti, Software Developer @Bemind Interactive. He explained us why he defines himself as a “Rock n’ Roll developer” and how he made up his mind to work remotely. Read the full interview below!   I read that you defined yourself as a “Rock n’ Roll developer”, where does this definition comes …

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HR Metrics 8 reasons why recruiters should be careful when using gamification to screen candidates

8 reasons why recruiters should be careful when using gamification to screen candidates

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 …

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Tech 35 Innovative European HealthTech companies

35 Innovative European HealthTech companies

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) …

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Interviews Karo Hajduk, Head of Recruitment & HR at WATTx: that’s how we are tackling shortage of skilled tech talents

Karo Hajduk, Head of Recruitment & HR at WATTx: that’s how we are tackling shortage of skilled tech talents

We interviewed Karo Hajduk, head of Recruitment and HR at WATTx, to get insights on Jolt, the project she recently launched: Jolt is a mentorship program for people in tech who want to learn new skills or improve on existing ones. We are happy to report this initiative because the talent shortage in tech is …

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Interviews Matthias Endler, Software Engineer @Trivago: this is my job

Matthias Endler, Software Engineer @Trivago: this is my job

This week we interviewed Matthias Endler, Software Engineer at Trivago. He explained us why he chose this career path and his secrets to become a successful Software Engineer.    What led you to become a Software Engineer? When I was young, I used to play a lot of 8-bit games, and I wanted to know …

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