Learning to dance the Ewan Shuffle
A walkthrough of how the broadband team at uSwitch manages to avoid clumps of deals from one retailer in their table ordering algorithm.
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Generating Data in R
Analyse risk and test your data transformations with data generation functions in R.
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Four accessibility wins
You've already built your thing, it's amazing. But it's not very accessible. Here are four things you can focus on to work towards a more usable application
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ReasonML first impressions
Our opinion after two weeks of playing with this new compile to javascript language.
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The Lead Developer UK conference - part two
Summary of the second day of the Lead Dev conference.
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The Lead Developer UK conference - part one
Summary of the first day of the conference focused on leading and motivating teams.
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Evolving our infrastructure
Learning from our past of centralised and decentralised infrastructure, we are moving to a model that tries to get the best of both worlds.
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"We're getting severe Drone outages ... builds just hang"
An issue with our CI system takes us down through its source code and into the bowels of of how the Docker Engine handles json-file logging.
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Building a better tech community through events
Our employees organise and host a number of internal and external events and meetup groups at our offices - here's a roundup of those.
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Moving to a user-centric design model of product development
uSwitch is changing how we build product to put the user front and centre. Here's how we went about it.
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Examples of using Window Functions in PostgreSQL
Provides an example of how you can use window functions to improve performance and solve complex problems in SQL alone.
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Visualising colour themes in popular movies using Clojure
Did the Harry Potter films get darker in tone as the kids got older? Let's use Clojure to find out
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Find important customer segments in A/B tests
How to find customer segments when doing A/B testing - explained with an example in R.
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How to do an accessibility audit
You know what accessibility is. You're trying to improve several apps at a time. How do you audit everything without getting overwhelmed? Read this!
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Successful business accounting requires developers and analysts
Developers and analysts should support their finance team as it’s valuable for their company as a whole.
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