Africa’s Talking Node.js (express) USSD Application
The app developed here will help a user to view their phone number and account details (Account number and account balance). Follow this article to set up a simulator. After you have launched the...
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View ArticleAndela’s Guide to Onboarding Developers
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View Article(Nearly) Everything you Need to Know about Hiring Developers
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View ArticleUrban Ishimwe’s Software Dev Journey
Perhaps in another life, Urban Ishimwe might have been some famous Social Media Influencer helping brands connect their products with their users. Today, though, he is at Andela Kigali, opting instead...
View ArticleStructuring your React Application — Atomic Design Principles
Josh Duck’s Periodic Table of HTMLWhen I first started programming, I really had no idea what abstract programming concepts like design patterns or file structures were or why they were so important...
View Article2018 Andela Engineering Management Report
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View ArticleBuilding Tech For Social Good: The CodeNaija Hackathon Recap
The last weekend of October 2019 saw Andela and the Blacktocats, GitHub’s black employee resource group, host the Codenaija Hackathon which is arguably the biggest hackathon event of the year in...
View ArticleGiving Free On-demand Access To Millions Takes Some Doing
Omotayo Madein has been working as a distributed member of the publishing Team at Pluto TV — an Andela Partner Company — since April 2018. She joined Andela a month before that as a Senior Software...
View Article#GrowWithAndela: Where Will You Do Your Best Work?
We have launched the #GrowWithAndela campaign this month to shed more light on the nature of work software engineers do at Andela. A survey we conducted over the last few weeks showed that the...
View ArticleThe Hidden side of out-of-the-box functions/features
Qn: Is writing JavaScript using the out-of-the-box functions any restricting? To start off this few minutes’ journey, which will be more of an adventure and discovery, we’ll deeply look into some of...
View ArticleCoding Transparency and Trust to Build Digital Relationships in Finance
The Company: Juntos builds financial tools that help financial institutions create deeply loyal digital relationships — at scale — with their customers. Juntos is big on financial inclusion; their...
View ArticleJavascript convert to boolean using !!(double bang)operator
Every value has an associated boolean, true or false, value in JS. For example, a null value has an associated boolean value of false. A string value, such as abc has an associated boolean value of...
View ArticleDemocratising Access To Smart Freighting
Catherine Kimani is a software engineer at Andela Kenya. Over the last 7 months, while living in Nairobi, she has worked as a backend engineer at Shipwell, an Andela Partner company based out in the...
View ArticleRemote Heroes Kampala: Event Recap
The Remote Heroes event in Kampala was held on 21st November 2019 at Innovation Village in Ntinda. Guests started to arrive from 5 pm and the event began at exactly 6 pm. The theme of the event was...
View ArticleBattle-tested hacks to grow exponentially as a software engineer
So, you just switched careers and now you are into tech, a software engineer or you have been doing the programming, coding thing for a few years and the same question is burning through your mind, how...
View ArticleOn-Demand Webinar: Remote-First Culture as a Competitive Advantage
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View ArticleSetting Expectations for Software Engineering Teams
Introduction When I started at Andela as CTO I had an opportunity to introduce myself and set expectations for the technology product function. I described the goals and values I hold for individuals...
View ArticleHow To Stay Productive When Dealing With Anxiety Disorder
Disclaimer: This isn’t really a hack. There are no eight steps to beat any kind of disorder. If you’re dealing with any kind of disorder, you should try to seek professional help. However, having...
View ArticleContinuous Deployment(CD) Using Bitbucket Pipelines and Ubuntu Server
Introduction: In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up Bitbucket Pipelines for a PHP & Node.js application and deploy them to your Ubuntu 18.04 server. I’m writing this because I wasn’t able...
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