Our top 5 topics in November by the tech practice circle

Ronny Schreiber • December 14, 2022 • exchange.io

This month, the developers had stimulating conversations on MS Teams, sharing their opinions.

Sticky Scroll

Many of our frontend developers at MB.io use Visual Studio Code. The VS Code team has released a new setting that helps you keep track of your file. Sticky Scroll, this feature shows the class/function you are currently working on at the top of the editor. Just enable it in the settings: “editor.stickyScroll.enabled”. Watch the short video and let it explain the behavior.

The Microsoft Edge Dev Tools extension for VS Code

The title of this article was so catchy that it spoke directly to me: “The Microsoft Edge Dev Tools extension for VS Code is so awesome that I’m ditching Chrome for web development”. What do you think? Will you try the visual studio code extension?

State of frontend 2022

Over the past two years, the IT industry has been undergoing major changes, especially in the area of frontend development. In this report, 3703 frontend professionals from 125 countries and 19 frontend experts were surveyed to get an accurate overview of current trends and the future of frontend. The goal is to provide insights on topics such as technologies, practices, and working conditions. This survey is a good starting point to discuss the insights in the team, to read trends for ourselves and to find out what we want to focus on in the future.

100 Seconds of Code

Curiosity and the will to learn something new every day is in the genes of us as developers. Especially easy to consume are the contents of this playlist: 100 Seconds of Code. Watch one of the clips every day and you will have 133 days of fresh input. The basics and commands for tools, technology or frameworks are covered.

Practical Accessibility a online video course

A self-paced, get-right-down-to-it online video course for web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible websites and applications today. The course is by Sara Soueidan an inclusive design engineer, author, speaker, and trainer. Because accessibility is important to us at Mercedes-Benz.io, one of our A11y gurus in our company will definitely be watching the course.

free-for.dev

Experimenting and trying out innovative new tools and services is vital in the life of a developer. This git links collection gives you the opportunity to browse what’s out there and especially which is free to use for developers. From major cloud providers, to source code repos, web hosting, analytics, to game development, you name it. What will you try next?

Thanks to all who share their knowledge in our company in this way and use our communities to exchange ideas. Stay curious!

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Our top 5 topics in august by the tech practice circle

Ronny Schreiber • August 29, 2022 • exchange.io

Summertime = vacation time. And we also need a well-deserved vacation. Nevertheless, some subjects were surfed and shared by our developers. This time, topics from the following areas are included: Open source, Rocket science, Tailwind, Chrome DevTools features, and Quality Assurance.

Javascript is rocket science after all! Working on complex systems, with endless lines of javascript and websites with millions of users a day, can be pretty exciting. If something goes wrong and a service is down for a while, that’s bad and not the user experience we want to provide for our users. Fortunately, though, we don’t do rocket science. So it was surprising for us to learn that the James Webb Space Telescope uses Javascript to control the telescope. Read the details in the article from the verge. It made me kind of proud that being a javascript developer can be rocket science.

Use Tailwind Without Tailwind In the article, Helmuth highlights the benefits of using tailwind, or what you can learn by taking a closer look. Tailwind is not part of our preferred tech stack, but it’s great to have the opportunity to look over the edge. As you can imagine, the reaction and attitude regarding Tailwind have been somewhat divergent. That’s the great thing about being able to disagree.

Chrome Devtools Recorder Recording user flows is a totally exciting feature. Not only can you record and replay flows to debug your application, but you can also export them and share them with others to track the exact error. This improves bug descriptions immensely. You can also export them with the respectively installed plugins in formats of common testing and performance tools. The individual recorded steps can of course be manipulated and additional ones added.

“uncurled” by Daniel Stenberg Daniel Sternberg writes about his experiences from over 30 years in the open source world. The inventor of Curl and open source enthusiast of course makes his work freely available and invites collaboration by using GitBook. Recommended reading for all who are interested in open source that wants to get an insight into his attitude, projects, what he thinks about funding, and how the open source world has changed over time.

5 Effective Steps to Align Testing with DevOps Our Quality Assurance team is already top notch and I read many things that are already implemented at Mercedes-Benz.io. Nevertheless, the article gives some interesting impulses on how to set up your QA team and your processes.

I would also like to draw your attention to the articles published on our blog by our esteemed colleagues.

Ricardo Brilhante has written an excellent text about AGILITY: IS FAILING AN OPTION? I don’t want to foreshadow how he answers this but we have “The Failure & Innovation Award” in our company for a reason.

We also have another part of the ARTICLE WRITING series, this time with a part about: FEEDBACK AND HOW WE INTEGRATED IT WITH A DEVELOPER </STYLE> Have a read and learn how to deal with feedback while writing and how we support that at Mercedes-Benz.io.