Zsolt Nagy

Development of Maintainable Web Applications

Monthly archives: May 2015

interview — Hiring good JavaScript application developers is not easy. Whenever the recruitment team sets up a proper funnel, only 5% – 8% of the applicants reach the final interview. If recruiters focus on wrong things, they reject their best candidates. Even […]

The Art of Hiring Great Javascript Developers

This entry was posted in Productivity and tagged Competence Javascript Learning on 31st May 2015 by zsolt-nagy

ESLint — What is focus? Concentration of power. When writing Javascript code, most of us focus on solving very complex problems. While dedicating intellectual capacity to the solution, small code quality mistakes are often made. It takes time and effort to fix […]

ESLint for Better Productivity and Higher Accuracy

This entry was posted in Javascript Libraries and tagged Javascript Maintainability Tutorial on 22nd May 2015 by zsolt-nagy

webpack — ES6 is here, and it comes with modules. I found the syntax cool. As experiments widen our horizons and they are often fun, I thought I would share my learnings with you. If you would like to follow the steps […]

Using ES6 Modules with Webpack

This entry was posted in ES6 and tagged ES6 Javascript Tutorial UnderscoreJs on 15th May 2015 by zsolt-nagy

SinonJs — In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we learned the basics of using Mocha and Chai. Part 3 introduced SinonJs spies. We will continue with the exploration of an additional utility belt responsible for isolating the tested functionality […]

Stubbing with SinonJs

This entry was posted in Test Automation and tagged Automated Testing ChaiJs Javascript Maintainability Mocha SinonJs on 9th May 2015 by zsolt-nagy

Learning Styles — In the post Efficient and Accelerated Learning, I emphasized the importance of motivation and focus to be able to reduce your learning curve. Finding motivation and leverage may make it a lot easier for you to use any learning materials. […]

Know your Learning Style

This entry was posted in Productivity and tagged Competence Learning on 3rd May 2015 by zsolt-nagy