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Fixed Headers in Mobile Webapps
When building mobile web apps there is often a desire to try and make it look and feel as “native” as possible. Whether it is the styling of components, the use of transitions, or just general speed...
View ArticleScaling beyond one developer
Yesterday I gave a talk to the London iPhone Developer Group (#lidg) about the lessons we’ve learnt in the iOS team at Badoo as we’ve scaled the development team.Hopefully it was interesting to other...
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AIDA - Badoo's journey into Continuous Integration
It’s hardly news to anyone that product development and testing involves a lot of boring routine work, which can lead to human error. To avoid complications stemming from this, we use AIDA.AIDA...
View ArticleType Checking in JavaScript
Here at Badoo we write a lot of JavaScript, our mobile web app contains about 60,000 lines of the stuff, and maintaining that much code can be challenging. One of the trickier aspects of working with a...
View ArticleJSConfEU 2013
A few of us here at Badoo were lucky enough to travel to Berlin in October for JSConfEU. It was a fantastic conference, the quality of the talks was incredibly high covering topics from the future of...
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5 Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques You Should Know About
In this article we will discuss 5 advanced techniques which web developers can use to reduce the time they spend debugging and squash challenging bugs by using new tools available to us and taking...
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The technology of billing - how we do it at Badoo
There are many ways to monetize your project, but all of them have one thing in common – the transfer of money from the user to a company account. In this article we will discuss how this process works...
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Localising into 46 languages
Localisation done right will earn your app loyal users in new countries. Done badly, it becomes a nagging pain like half the apps on my computer trying to correct the spelling of localisation to...
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Fixed Headers in Mobile Webapps
When building mobile web apps there is often a desire to try and make it look and feel as “native” as possible. Whether it is the styling of components, the use of transitions, or just general speed...
View ArticleScaling beyond one developer
Yesterday I gave a talk to the London iPhone Developer Group (#lidg) about the lessons we’ve learnt in the iOS team at Badoo as we’ve scaled the development team. Hopefully it was interesting to other...
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AIDA - Badoo's journey into Continuous Integration
It’s hardly news to anyone that product development and testing involves a lot of boring routine work, which can lead to human error. To avoid complications stemming from this, we use AIDA.AIDA...
View ArticleType Checking in JavaScript
Here at Badoo we write a lot of JavaScript, our mobile web app contains about 60,000 lines of the stuff, and maintaining that much code can be challenging. One of the trickier aspects of working with a...
View ArticleJSConfEU 2013
A few of us here at Badoo were lucky enough to travel to Berlin in October for JSConfEU. It was a fantastic conference, the quality of the talks was incredibly high covering topics from the future of...
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5 Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques You Should Know About
In this article we will discuss 5 advanced techniques which web developers can use to reduce the time they spend debugging and squash challenging bugs by using new tools available to us and taking...
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The technology of billing - how we do it at Badoo
There are many ways to monetize your project, but all of them have one thing in common – the transfer of money from the user to a company account. In this article we will discuss how this process works...
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Localising into 46 languages
Localisation done right will earn your app loyal users in new countries. Done badly, it becomes a nagging pain like half the apps on my computer trying to correct the spelling of localisation to...
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A page control with style
When we set up to design the new Hot or Not version, our designers and developers came up with a really nice way to hint users that the photos they scroll horizontally, can be seen as a grid.We thought...
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Android Handler Memory Leaks
Android uses Java as a platform for development. This helps us with many low level issues including memory management, platform type dependencies, and so on. However we still sometimes get crashes with...
View ArticleBuilding a maintainable bi-directional cross platform protocol
Today I gave a talk along side Pavel Dovbush at (#jsconfeu) about our experiences building a cross platform api abstraction based on protobuf.I’m attaching the slides here, for those who are...
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Deobfuscating HPROF memory dumps
According to Crittercism 1, the second most common crash reported in Android apps is java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, so it stands to reason that analyzing these crashes should be one of the top priorities...
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