A new year. And here you get some good and interesting articles. Today: GIF, Remote browser control, Firefox OS, Favicon, User Input and more.
Ensuring that resources are provided quickly, reliably and in a fault-tolerant manner for serving each web request is one of the challenges when running XING. A lot of these resources are served via an HTTP-based API, so each web request to our platform might trigger a set of internal HTTP requests. If one part of Continue Reading…
The last time in 2012 I want to share some interesting articles. Today: jQuery, mod_pagespeed, Method Bound, UX, translate (performance), WebKit, Fastbook, browser prefixes, AngularJS, SEO, CSS animation
Does frantically hammering away at your keyboard for hours on end sound like a typical day to you? Well, that’s not the case with us developers here at XING as we’re a really creative and professional bunch who like to have fun at work.
First of all, what is a merge conflict? When working with a “version control system” (VCS) such as CVS, SVN or GIT, merging is a daily task. Your developer colleagues also work on their features and commit code. To keep your local version up to date you need to “pull” and “merge” their work on Continue Reading…
It’s been 6 months today since I started as a Software Engineer Ruby on Rails at XING. And I don’t want to miss the chance to share my experience. About a month and a half ago I had the first contact with my boss to be after talking to a friend of mine who already worked Continue Reading…
I have been a Rails developer at XING for a bit over three months now. So far, it has been an exciting time. Which is why I want to share with you the surprises, oohs and aahs that I have experienced in my first months of what is in fact my first job as a Continue Reading…
where we — the tech geeks, developers and wizards at XING — write about our work, programming tricks we’ve learned, stuff we release to the world of open source, and other random tidbits that may or may not be relevant to other developers or interested parties out there. We will also be providing you with Continue Reading…