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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik.

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Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters

Smashing Magazine

Jump to the workshop ?. A good example of it is Rozetka.ua , an eCommerce retailer from Ukraine (see above). Whenever users can define a large range of values, be it pricing range in retail store, max duration of a train trip or a min/max coverage for an insurance plan, we probably will use some sort of a slider. Let’s fix that!

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How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js

Smashing Magazine

Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. Jump to the workshop ?. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js And Puppeteer ” by Andreas Altheimer. Why You Should Extract Amazon Product Data.

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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

"Increasing numbers of people who had formerly been self-employed in workshops and cottage industry, often on a subcontracting basis, assumed new roles as part of an emerging wage-earning class. Labor increasingly became viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. Alternatively, one firm's primary labor force may be another's secondary.