Missing the forest for the trees
Understanding customer needs for being able to do good testing sounds like commonplace that doesn’t need a special discussion. And testing projects often omit to discuss them indeed. Testing teams...
View ArticleKnowing your subject
This article follows-up with the series of articles about tackling test complexity, adding a view on the importance of product knowledge, when coping with the complexity of testing. Let’s assume that...
View ArticleOpenAM Session Upgrade: Overview
SSO authentication introduces some technical challenges besides providing obvious benefits. Imagine for example that you need to assign different types or levels of authentication to different...
View ArticlePartnering with ForgeRock to deliver Open Identity and Access Management...
profiq just announeced strategic partnership with ForgeRock for system integration of open-source and standard-based Access and Identity Management (IAM) products. This is a fundamental milestone in...
View ArticleOpenAM Session Upgrade: How To
I gave a short overview of OpenAM Session Upgrades in a previous article. This is a follow-up that intends to describe the process of configuring it and discussing some of its implications. This blog...
View ArticleHow to run Engine Yard Local in CentOS 6.5
Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) company that focuses on deployment and management of Ruby on Rails, PHP and Node.js servers in order to provide to customer a quick and simple way to...
View ArticleWhy didn’t you tell me!
Here comes a testing focused article after a series of technical blogs! It is based on experience with projects managed through waterfall processes and it continues the series about tackling test...
View ArticleBringing innovation to life from new office in Ostrava
The demand for profiq’s services from Silicon Valley based hi-tech companies is increasing. This brings new opportunities for technical talent in the Ostrava region. People started seeing us as a...
View ArticleVoLTE in the news!!
T-Mobile Czech Republic started testing VoLTE technology, that is IP telephony over LTE. A nice article was published about it in the Czech news (see [1] for an English summary). VoLTE should be...
View ArticleSeaFile Storage authentication via ForgeRock OpenDJ
Welcome to this blog post. I will describe and explain how to set up own storage with file synchronization across multiple computers and platforms. Having a distributed and safe file storage is a...
View ArticleAuthenticating Sencha Web Application Manager via ForgeRock’s OpenDJ
I am going to show how to integrate two impressive technologies: 1. Sencha Web Application Manager (SWAM), that is an application platform for deploying and managing web and mobile apps and 2....
View ArticleBe informed about GitHub commits via Twitter
If you share your code on GitHub with other developers, you may want to be notified about commits. GitHub has a built in feature to provide notifications or send e-mail about these commits. I wanted to...
View ArticleBe informed about GitHub commits via Twitter, second solution
I have developed two solutions for getting informed about source code changes on GitHub, when you are sharing code with other developers. I described one solution in a previous article. This article is...
View ArticleKubernetes cluster setup using virtual machines
Preface Recently I needed to setup k8s cluster on my local machine in order to see if I’m able to do it on bare-metal servers lately. So I decided to first give it a shot using Virtual Box machines....
View ArticleSencha Architect 4 – Tips and tricks
Sencha ExtJS is popular JavaScript framework for building data-intensive, cross-platform web and mobile applications. It comes with unique visual app builder called Sencha Architect that released its...
View ArticleWhat Makes For Great Software Engineers? Technical Skills Are Just The Start
Rastislav (Rasta) Kanócz, the CTO and Co-Founder of profiq, has extensive experience in hiring and training many types of software engineers involved in QA, R&D, and the newly emerging discipline,...
View ArticleRunning ExtJS app as a Liferay portlet: Part 1
Rendering ExtJS app in a specific page element Introduction Hello, My name is Jiří Znoj and I am working as a Software Engineer at profiq, an agile software development company. I, as a part of the...
View ArticleReal-time control of your app features with Split
At profiq, we often research and demo new and interesting modern technologies. One interesting Silicon Valley startup called Split (http://www.split.io) caught our attention with its recent launch of...
View ArticleIntegrate and setup Split.io in under 15 minutes
In the last blog post, I provided an overview of the Split Feature Experimentation Platform. In this post, I will show you how long it takes to integrate Split into the React web application. The best...
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