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Remote Team Collaboration: Loom – Screen & Video Recording Software

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week I wrote about Zappy by Zapier, a tool for visually documenting and sharing your work and your underlying processes. Loom is a similar tool that - by going beyond mere screenshots with actual screen recordings - allows your team to collaborate remotely and asynchronously. From explaining and reviewing code to design critiques, customer support, sales, and employee feedback there are a variety of use cases such a tool can you help you with when ...

Remote Team Collaboration: Communicate via Annotated Screenshots with Zappy for macOS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Zapier is a workflow automation software I'm using extensively and which I can highly recommend. Zapier is fully distributed remote company. In order to simplify collaborating visually while working remotely they have been using a tool called "Zappy for macOS" for some time now and they've recently released it for others to use as well. Zappy allows you to quickly capture, annotate, and share screenshots with your co-workers. In their own words, Zappy is: The fastest, all-in-one way ...

10. Mai 2020 by Bjoern in Business, Software

Don’t Just Document Software, Tell a Story.

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Humans tend to remember stories much better than mere facts, which probably is why storytelling has such a long tradition in human history. Storyteller is - quoting from their own description - an "editor plugin that generates web pages that recreate and animate entire programming sessions" (see this playback repository for examples and the project's GitHub repository for more details). It's an interesting, novel take on software documentation in that instead of merely describing some current ...

29. März 2020 by Bjoern in Software

Humanising Your Documentation – Carolyn Stransky @ beyond tellerrand 2019

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Humanising Your Documentation - Carolyn Stransky from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

25. August 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Dinero.js: Working With Monetary Values in JavaScript

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Working with monetary values can become a problem in any programming language and JavaScript certainly is no different in that respect. The naïve assumption that monetary values can be expressed as floating point numbers almost inevitably leads to rounding errors caused by precision and the fact that in most cases monetary values are represented as decimal numbers with just two (instead of an undefined number of) decimal places. Apart from that, money is not just ...

25. November 2018 by Bjoern in Web Applikation

Blogumentation

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm not sure if he actually came up with the term 'blogumentation' but software quality engineer Jamie Tanna features quite prominently when searching for it so at the very least he appears to be one of its more avid and deliberate users. Anyway, while the term 'blogumentation' might be somewhat obscure the concept behind this particular portmanteau is a seminal one. Basically, it derives from the insight that often the best way to learn and ...

28. Oktober 2018 by Bjoern in Software

Using Swagger to Generate Client SDKs for REST APIs

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.These days Swagger is a popular, easy-to-use tool for (semi-)automatically documenting REST APIs on-the-fly. For example, in order to document a REST API created with Spring Boot and Jersey literally all you have to do is add these two entries to your Maven pom.xml: [xml] <dependency> <groupid>io.springfox</groupid> <artifactid>springfox-swagger2</artifactid> <version>2.6.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupid>io.springfox</groupid> <artifactid>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactid> <version>2.6.1</version> </dependency> [/xml] You'll then get a ready-made documentation for all your REST API endpoints. An example of how this looks like can be seen here. While this already is very useful in that it ...

21. Mai 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software

Documentation and Spreadsheets with an API: GitBook and Fieldbook

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Continuing on last week's post about RunKit - a Node.js prototyping environment for the browser - here are two interesting tools that make use of RunKit: GitBook is a collaborative documentation tool that allows you to create beautiful, version-controlled documentation for your software. It's used by software components like Redux and it leverages RunKit to embed live, reactive code examples in your documentation. Fieldbook is was a database creation tool thats touted as "A database with ...

19. Februar 2017 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

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