How to improve the stakeholder engagement based on the VAK learning models

Have you ever thought about how to better approach or sell your ideas to your stakeholders? Or, to look at it another way, have you ever thought about how your stakeholders approach you? What words and phrases they typically use? Phrases like: “Do you see what I mean?”“The future is grey.”“I hear you!”“I have good […]

A pragmatic look at functional programming: The Quick Seat project (Part 3-3)

As seen in the previous two articles, after some research and brainstorming we were convinced that functional programming could help us develop powerful software with fewer lines of code, maximising reusability and greatly reducing the risk of bugs. This would translate to savings in development and maintenance costs, a reduced number of incidents and a […]

Finding Inspiration in Interface Design

Inspiration is an elusive beast. The more you chase her, the faster she runs. The trick to getting her closer is to avoid hunting her down. Instead, give her space and let her come to you when she is ready. As a UI designer, I know that this can be tricky. We have deadlines to […]

Your candidate journey at The Workshop

As The Workshop’s Talent Acquisition Team, we work with very different perspectives every day. On one hand, we can be working with the leadership team. This involves finding out the company’s needs and upcoming projects to make sure we have the right people in the right place. On the other hand, we need to constantly […]

A pragmatic look at functional programming: abstraction, parallelism and testing (Part 2-3)

In the previous article we covered the immutability orientation. While investigating the advantages of functional programming languages, we also learnt that it offers a much higher level of abstraction. It requires a radical paradigm shift and it can be shocking at first. But hey, moving from imperative to object oriented programming had a learning curve […]

Create a new workspace from scratch using NX

Have you ever been in the position of starting a new app from scratch? Choosing the right set of tools, libraries or frameworks can be a pain. Fortunately, there are tools that automate this process. In this article we will show how Nx can help you with this problem. What is Nx? Nx is a […]

Creating a Navigation Your Users Will Love

Navigation is the backbone of all software, website and app designs. It holds your product together and allows your users to get to where they need to go and do what they need to do. When done correctly, it’s an imperceptible aspect of design that no one will think about or comment on. When done […]

A pragmatic look at functional programming: The immutability orientation (Part 1)

Functional Programming has been getting more and more attention over the last few years. But what is it exactly? Is it just a bunch of new programming languages? Is it a different way of coding? Can it really make a difference to our business? Three years ago we decided to upgrade the architecture of our […]

KidsOut Charity

We’re proud to announce that we’ve partnered with KidsOut, a charity which brings joy to thousands of disadvantaged children. In our new role as a KidsOut Hero, we’ll be supporting KidsOut in bringing fun activities and positive experiences to 120 children to enhance their well-being, improve confidence and provide hope for a better future. To […]

Lambda World

A sold-out auditorium of 650 people for the talk of our Solutions Architect Alfredo – check. Tons of people stopping by our booth – check. Fun and informative conversations with like-minded, talented people – double-check! These are just some of our highlights from Lambda World, one of the largest functional programming events in Europe, which […]