Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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These are the people that will help you deliver your product. These will be your executives, sponsors, key customers, partners and any other interested parties that can influence the outcome of the project.
Align Product Strategy
Angular 2 has grown steadily more popular since its release, and a growing number of books are now available to teach programmers how to use it. But building an application involves a lot more than just writing code: in order to be performant and maintainable, the application must have some over-arching architectural plan that ties its pieces together and gives direction to future growth.
Frontend Development
This article focuses on WebStorm which is an IDE created by the wonderful folks at JetBrains. The IDE provides great functional tools for web development such as Git integration which will be discussed in this article. This article assumes the reader is familiar with Git concepts including forking and rebasing.
Programmers have strong opinions on many things, one of which is the use of strong typing in programming languages. On the one hand are people who claim that strong typing makes developers' intentions clearer and catches errors before code is even run. On the other hand are those who say that strong typing makes code harder to modify, and that focusing on getting types correct distracts from focusing on getting the rest of the program correct.
TypeScript
Building high-performing teams is hard. It's even harder with a professional services company, as creating new teams working on new projects is something we do on a regular basis. This means we are often in the position of learning about the client, their product and business on top of learning about ourselves and how we will work together.
Build Engineering Capability
Google Tag Manager (GTM) makes it quick and easy for digital marketers to manage what events are sent to analytics servers such as Google Analytics (GA). However, integrating GTM and developing a maintainable tagging strategy is challenging for those who are new to it. Here I am introducing an open source project called ReduxBeacon that resolves the challenge with GTM integration for apps using Redux or ngrx/store.
Frontend Development
DX3 , Canada's leading technology, digital marketing and retail event took place on March 8 and 9. Rangle was there to help marketers, brands and retailers understand how technology is affecting the customer journey, and how they can use technology and measurement to their business advantage. Through stage sponsorship, a booth explaining our lean eCommerce messaging and a speaking session by Doug Riches, Group Technology Director, our presence was very much front and centre.
React
This week Mark Kingston, Rangle's Vice President of Operations, set up shop in the centre of mobile innovation: Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Truly the launching ground for the coolest high-profile gadgets, MWC also gathers industry heavyweights eager to talk about the future of mobile. Smart cities was the prevailing theme at this year's conference. Mark shares some of the key takeaways from #MWC17.
With Ranglers setting up shop at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona, it seems like a fitting opportunity to weigh in on a few questions we commonly hear: should brands develop mobile apps in Native code or a JavaScript framework and what implications does this have on business.
Modernize Your Stack
A key to successful projects is incorporating learnings to drive decisions. To obtain learnings from live users, teams must deliver features that collect and analyze behaviour. This post discusses writing user stories that involve analytics.
Operating Model
This is a rather meaty post that will hopefully shed some light on concepts that have been misunderstood and under-utilized, in the general community. The goal of this post is to explore the concepts behind map and reduce, and to illustrate how they can simplify algorithms for dealing with arrays of data.
Frontend Development
Prior to the holidays, my colleague Nick wrote an awesome post on getting better at functional programming by stepping out of your comfort zone, and burning the boats upon the shores of strange new languages. If you did find yourself conquering the lands of Erlang, Elm, Haskell, or the isles of Akka/Scala, my hat's off to you.
Frontend Development