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Programmers tend to have strong opinions about what makes code easier or harder to understand. Until recently, though, those opinions have been based on self-analysis and received wisdom, i.e., on programmers thinking about what they themselves do, and (more often) on what the rest of the herd is saying.

When delivering mobile and web applications that include analytics, it is important to gauge the organization’s current analytics capabilities and how the project can advance them.

On June 12, Doug Riches headed to London, England to present How JavaScript is Radically Changing The Way Financial Institutions Create Enhanced Customer Experiences Fostering Creativity to an eager audience at FinDEVr, part of London’s Tech Week. The Q&A portion was full of engaging questions, here’s some of the highlights:

DevOps is what happens when developers work hand-in-hand with the system administrators and other IT staff who are responsible for getting software into users’ hands and keeping it running. Discussion about it frequently centres on tools, but its core is a set of practices that are best understood as answers to a handful of key questions.

So many software development projects start with high levels of uncertainty. Some of it is explicit, you many not know exactly who the target customer is and what they want, and some of it may be implicit, you have a great idea but are uncertain about the technical risks of delivering the experience or what the state-of-the-art is capable of and, as they say, you don't know what you don't know. In these cases we echo the words of "Ike" Eisenhower:

At Rangle, we partner with our clients to deliver high-quality software. As part of this partnership, we often ask our clients to assign a Product Owner (PO) to help drive our team towards delivering software with the biggest Return On Investment (ROI). So, what does it mean to be a PO?

When Angular 2 was released in September of 2016, it signalled a dramatic shift in enterprise front-end development. Not only was it a complete rewrite of AngularJS, but it was also built from the ground up with Typescript - Microsoft's strongly typed superset of JavaScript.

A common scenario is to tack implementing digital analytics onto the end of a project at the last minute. While this is much better than flying blind, better outcomes can be obtained by spending that time earlier in the project.