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Last year, during my studies of IDBM program at Aalto University, I took a course "Design in Innovation Context" which covered entrepreneurial innovations and behavior. Even out of study context but in everyday life I have always been interested in the answer to the question “What is so special about entrepreneurs that makes them who they are?”. Below, I have tried to summarize the knowledge I got and answer this question. Very interesting article by prof. Saras D. Sarasvathy introduces and explains the concept of “effectual thinking” as a special property of entrepreneurial mindset which…

Interview to Cristiano Rastelli about using BEM in developing frontend.

Two weeks ago, I have started a new project of migrating a large website to React. Although this is not developing from scratch but refactoring, there still was a great chance to reconsider the project file structure in its client part. As a proof-of-concept, I have chosen a pair of components: shopping cart and adding button. This is e-commerce what we are building here :-) My initial goal was to create simple components and demonstrate their reusing as well as introduce Redux as a glue to the components in the data area. As a result, I think I provided a nice and neat structure which helps a…

First thing first, I'm staring weekly posts about findings that are somehow related to work. This is a mature but not yet implemented idea. Although, a friend of mine Vladimir Starkov sometimes practises the same . In this issue there are tips on organizing Google Calendar, nice project management addition for GitHub, Styleguide solutions for React projects and a couple of good reads. Week numbers in Google calendar In Finland, the week numbers are widely used. People easily make agreements on let's say "the beginning on week 45". For this purpose and also for the actual weekly reports, I…

When it comes to the large web applications, we often operate with complex components. Such components are not just CSS styles for the pieces of an interface but also their JavaScript interactions and templates. As documentation, the style guide should reflect them all. In other words, the components on the style guide's pages should be the same living as in production. At my recent project, we have been using SC5 Style Guide in its simplest way - documenting the view of the components. For that, we provided the needed HTML in the KSS code and so has received the rendered component library…

Earlier this year, I participated in a development of a single page application. With the team, we started this project from scratch. This situation was the most suitable to practice the new technologies. The stack I've tried was React + ES2015 + postcss + webpack. However, keeping in mind that most of the team (who were supposed to maintain the project later) are mainly experienced in Angular, I was looking for some sort of combination of these frameworks. Finally, I made a project with React used for the view and Angular governing the data layer. I believe that such project is ideal for the…