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Your development team and your business goals must be aligned for you to develop a successful software product. Guide your team to a shared vision with our Peak Performance Team framework.  As a C-level executive of a software development company you have many things in your mind: rivaling companies gaining ground on your piece of […]

Remember the time when you had to insert variables in a string and how awful it was? And how the times you had to use ‘ ’ and the sign +. You ran your code and the spacing between variables was off or, even worse, you forgot a + sign and the code didn’t work properly. 

There’s a solution implemented in ES6 called Template literals and here’s how it works.

It’s almost impossible to avoid bugs when developing software, but there are ways to decrease the likelihood of them happening. GitLab includes tools that make software development easier by constantly checking the code and ensuring that everything goes smoothly fine. Here’s how to achieve a good workflow with GitLab.

I love to draw! I’ve been doing it since the tender age of five; I am 53 and I still love it and today I am still doing it at Nearsoft. Let me tell you what it means to me. Being All I Can Be One of the many things I like about working at […]

Global e-commerce sales exceeded $2 trillion in 2017, and are on pace to more than double by 2021. Yet average online conversion rates have remained doggedly low.  Fewer than 4% of consumers arriving from desktop browsers actually buy products.

Nothing deters potential customers from completing their purchase more than bad customer service.

People remember at most three things. I can name three of Nearsoft’s values. Or three WorldBlu principles. Or a three word slogan.

Most often we only remember one thing, if we remember anything at all.

In my experience there are specific characteristics that can help advance as a developer in the travel industry.

Here are the five that I think are most important.

I did something that most people think impossible: I changed careers!

If you are currently a student or you chose a college degree not related to Software Development, this is your chance to turn back.

Don’t be afraid to change.

You will always have options and you can make a change anytime. But the sooner you do it, the easier it is.

I will tell you why.

It is important to know how to create an API. Nowadays is very common to encounter micro services to perform small but specialized tasks.

Flask allows you to create an API very easily. You can also create a web application which can consume services with APIs.

We have awesome facilities, the best equipment, and pay higher salaries than the average. All 250 Nearsoftians have an unlimited budget for books, a kitchen full of food, and enjoy offsites, called Team Building Weeks, twice a year, oftentimes in fancy places, like Cancun.

This is possible because our culture is strong enough to trust our teams to manage their own finances.

Here’s how you can make better financial decisions, along with your team.