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Get to know the top software outsourcing company and 29 more runners-up in this latest market research by Explority. Last year, the global outsourcing market at 85.6 billion US dollars. A notable part of this market, outsourcing software development is not subsiding either. was valued at The reasons behind this upward trend are understandable: according to the , businesses turn to outsourcing as it brings cost optimization and makes them more agile, efficient, and effective. Deloitte Global Outsourcing Survey 2018 With the growing popularity of outsourcing as a service, hundreds of IT companies started positioning it as one of their core capabilities and strengths. But do all of these firms prove to be so skilled in delivering outsourcing software development? To help you define who’s who in today’s outsourcing market, we have assembled the list of the most trustworthy vendors ready to handle software development, UI/UX design, and disruptive technologies. To make the list objective, we ranked the companies according to the following criteria: technological strength ability to ensure project security focus on innovation diversity and complexity of completed projects geographical flexibility Below, we present 30 outsourcing software development companies that have showed the highest scores in these criteria over the last 12 months. 1. Iflexion Founded in 1999, Iflexion houses 850+ experts in outsourcing software development, integration, business analysis, QA, and project management. Iflexion delivers such services as custom software development for end business users, product development, and DevOps enablement, among others. The company also provides dedicated development teams and is ready to boost their software solutions with emerging technologies like AI, AR, and big data, should the project require it. Iflexion has worked with such market giants as Philips, Expedia, Toyota, and adidas, with more than 1,500 completed projects for clients in 30+ countries overall. Location: Denver, CO Founded: 1999 Major Clients: Google, eBay, PayPal, Philips, Expedia, Toyota, adidas Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: IT, Hospitality, Retail, Media, Finance Website: https://www.iflexion.com/ 2. 10Pearls With more than 350 mobile developers, software developers, designers, and researchers worldwide, 10Pearls augments businesses’ capabilities with their technological expertise. 10Pearls creates applications driven by such emerging technologies as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and augmented reality. Location: Vienna, VA Founded: 2004 Major Clients: National Geographic, Johnson & Johnson, AARP, Nextel Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: Healthcare, Media, Finance, Transportation Website: https://10pearls.com/ 3. Orases Since 2000, Orases has been delivering strategy, branding, interface design, and full-stack outsourcing software development to more than 750 clients from ten countries all around the world. The company expertizes in building products to be integrated with other systems: ERP, CRM, EMR, and others. Orases also delivers branding services, including brand, communication and social media strategies. Location: Frederick, MD Founded: 2000 Major Clients: NFL, Johns Hopkins University, Frederick County Bank, Major League Baseball Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Healthcare, Finance, Sports Website: https://orases.com/ 4. Trigent Software US-based Trigent Software has been providing outsourcing software development  since 1995. The company delivers consulting, design, and development across cloud, mobility, business intelligence, product engineering, and emerging tech domains. Over the years, the company have designed more than 400 products adopted in large and small enterprises alike. Location: Fayville, MA Founded: 1995 Major Clients: Navistar, NEPC, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, American Heart Association Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: Finance, Healthcare, IT, Education, Transportation Website: https://www.trigent.com/ 5. Spiria Spiria is a Canadian custom software development company that has been delivering outsourcing software development for more than 15 years. Spiria offers web, mobile and UX/UI design development. Spiria specializes in user-friendly and responsive websites, from ecommerce stores to secure intranets. The company also delivers embedded systems, IoT solutions, and M2M solutions. Location: Montreal, Canada Founded: 2003 Major Clients: Autodesk, Shutterstock, Disney, Paymi, DogWatch, Evenko Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: IT, Education, Manufacturing Website: https://www.spiria.com/ 6. Fingent With an active client base across four continents and 250+ specialists on board, Fingent remains a competitive outsourcing software development company for over 15 years. They offer enterprise software development, web application development, data analytics, and digital transformation consulting. Location: White Plains, NY Founded: 2003 Major Clients: Sony, Johnson & Johnson, University of North Carolina, PwC, CBN Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Transportation, Real Estate, Finance Website: https://www.fingent.com/ 7. STX Next Poland-based STX Next has 170+ Python, React Native, JavaScript, Android, iOS, and full-stack developers ready to take up outsourcing software development. The company also offers product design and software testing. STX Next offers end-to-end development, team extension, and project takeover. It also works with startups, helping them enter the market and scale throughout product lifecycles. Location: Poznań, Poland Founded: 2005 Major Clients: Seerene, Verve, Pixomondo, Unity, Lamden Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: Finance, IT, Real Estate Website: https://stxnext.com/ 8. Praxent Operating for more than 20 years, Praxent has delivered more than 300 software solutions in the areas of mobile and web applications development, web portals, and legacy software modernization. Besides, Praxent offers human-centered design development, branding, and rapid prototyping. Location: Austin, TX Founded: 2000 Major Clients: Cisco, Kinder Morgan, Sysco, World Market, Flex, Keller Williams Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, Healthcare, IT Website: https://praxent.com/ 9. The Software House With 129 specialists on board and 150+ successfully delivered projects, The Software House offers the following services in the niche of outsourcing software development: web and mobile development, digital product design, QA, and DevOps services. The Software House’s technological expertise includes React, Node.js, Angular, iOS, Android, and React Native. Location: Gliwice, Poland Founded: 2012 Major Clients: Smartum, Synerise, eSky Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, Manufacturing, Healthcare Website: https://tsh.io/ 10. AgileEngine Over the past nine years, AgileEngine has delivered more than 70 projects in outsourcing software development, including risk modeling and case management software, tracking platforms, and BI tools. Besides UI, web, mobile, and enterprise software development, AgileEngine provides QA services that include load, stress, performance, security, and usability testing. Location: McLean, VA Founded: 2010 Major Clients: Needles, Logi Analytics, Farmers Edge, LivingSocial Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: IT, Healthcare Website: https://agileengine.com/ 11. Highland Solutions Established in 1999, Highland Solutions is a Chicago-based custom software development company that engineers and integrates web and mobile applications, multi-tenant custom platforms, and CRM systems. Highland Solutions also offers development of OutSystems low-code platforms that automate time-consuming and monotonous manual tasks. Location: Chicago, IL Founded: 1999 Major Clients: Thrivent Financial, The Delta Institute, Morton Arboretum, Creative Group, Harvard University Health Services Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Finance, Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare, IT Website: https://highlandsolutions.com/ 12. Merixstudio Since 1999, Merixstudio has provided outsourcing software development to more than 200 customers from a variety of market segments. The software development company specializes in web development, Python programming, frontend development, React Native mobile development, and UX/UI design. Location: Poznań, Poland Founded: 1999 Major Clients: Fox, The Independent, DFJ, Divio Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, Education, Real Estate, Sport Website: https://www.merixstudio.com/ 13. Caxy Interactive Serving outsourcing software development from its Chicago-based office, Caxy Interactive expertizes in Drupal, JavaScript, and Python development, ecommerce solutions, and machine learning. The software development company also offers strategy development and Agile consulting services. Besides, Caxy Interactive takes up UX and web design projects. Location: Chicago, IL Founded: 1999 Major Clients: International Code Council, The Field Museum, Rush University Medical Center, Uptake Technologies Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Finance, Education, Manufacturing, IT Website: https://www.caxy.com/ 14. Boldare Founded in 2004, Boldare was formed after a merger of two software development companies, XSolve and Chilid. So far, the company’s team of 130+ technological experts have delivered 250+ projects. Boldare provides full-cycle outsourcing software development, prototyping, and design. It also offers digital transformation services. Location: Gliwice, Poland Founded: 2004 Major Clients: BlaBlaCar, Sonnen, Takamol, Holiday Taxis, Agnito Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Energy, Media, Ecommerce, Healthcare Website: https://www.boldare.com/ 15. MojoTech US-located MojoTech outsourcing software development and engineering, UX/UI design, and digital transformation services. Besides, the company mentors their clients’ in-house IT teams. For more than 11 years of their market presence, MojoTech’s team of 65 delivered 150+ software development projects. Location: Providence, RI Founded: 2008 Major Clients: AccuWeather, Aetna, Groove, Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Way Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Finance, Consumer Services, IT Website: https://www.mojotech.com/ 16. ClearSummit ClearSummit is a software development company offering mobile and web app development, frontend and backend development, and UI/UX design. The company also offers discovery and technical advisory consultations. Additionally, ClearSummit offers software maintenance and support services to help clients fix bugs and upgrade their systems. Location: Marina del Rey, CA Founded: 2014 Major Clients: Belkin, TuneRegistry, SCH Travel, Musea Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Consumer Services, IT, Media, Real Estate Website: http://clearsumm.it 17. Future Processing Established in 2000, Future Processing have delivered 500 solutions to 150+ clients from all over the world. The company’s expertise in outsourcing software development includes software development and consulting using .NET, Java, React, Angular, and other programming languages. The software development company brings to its clients such emerging technologies as AI, blockchain, and big data analytics, and delivers software audit and business intelligence setup. Location: Gliwice, Poland Founded: 2000 Major Clients: Tenneco, Ista, Valeo, TechSoup, Thomas Miller Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: Finance, Healthcare, Transportation, Real Estate Website: https://www.future-processing.com/ 18. Moove It Being a leading outsourcing software development company, Moove It offers product discovery, web and mobile apps development, testing automation, as well as digital transformation services. Besides these, the company provides technological and Agile coaching. Location: Austin, TX Founded: 2006 Major Clients: Unilever, Verifone, Disney, Sierra Wireless Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Consumer Services, Education, Finance, Healthcare, IT Website: https://moove-it.com/ 19. iTexico Since its inception in 2010, iTexico has been delivering UI/UX design, software engineering, QA, mobile and cloud development from its six US-based offices. To make their outsourcing software development as efficient as possible, iTexico follows Agile, DevOps, and Lean methodologies. Location: Austin, TX Founded: 2010 Major Clients: Undisclosed Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing Website: https://www.itexico.com/ 20. Django Stars European company Django Stars has been delivering its software solutions for almost 11 years. The company offers web and mobile app development, design, and QA. Django Stars also expertizes in data science, data architecture, intelligent chatbots, and big data analytics. The company’s core strength is in its Python development expertise: Django Stars promises to create any type of product using this programming language. Location: Kiev, Ukraine Founded: 2008 Major Clients: MoneyPark, Sindeo, Molo Finance, Clear Minds Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, Transportation, Healthcare, Real Estate, Hospitality Website: https://djangostars.com 21. Spire Digital US-based Spire Digital boasts 300+ products launched and 600+ clients served to an overall 98% satisfaction rate. The company delivers digital transformation, Agile process optimization, CX research, data science consulting, and lean product development. Besides all of these and expertise in AI, blockchain, and IoT, Spire Digital offers digital marketing strategy development. Location: Denver, CO Founded: 1998 Major Clients: TomTom, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, Helix, Western Union Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Education, Finance, Healthcare, Ecommerce Website: https://www.spiredigital.com/ 22. KitelyTech Delivering to clients of all sizes, including startups and Fortune 500 companies, KitelyTech offers web and mobile app design, ecommerce solutions, data analytics consulting, QA, and more. The company offers SEO services as well. Among the emerging technologies that KitelyTech is offering, there are AI, blockchain, and AR. Location: Chicago, IL Founded: 2009 Major Clients: Karrot Health, Plastic Surgery Clinic of Chicago, Olympus, J.P. McMahon Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Healthcare, IT, Transportation Website: https://kitelytech.com/ 23. Table XI US-based Table XI has been a trusted supplier of outsourcing software development for over 16 years. The company provides digital strategy and product design, along with mobile and custom web development. So far, the company have joined forces with at least 100 global clients. Location: Chicago, IL Founded: 2002 Major Clients: Dept. of Medicine of the Northwestern University, Journal for the American Medical Association, AccuWeather, Dickson Number of Employees: 10-49 Industry Presence: Healthcare, Manufacturing, Education Website: https://www.tablexi.com/ 24. Syberry Having a 94% client retention rate, Syberry serves at least 20 industries in the US alone. The company provides a whole range of services, including custom software development, QA, business analysis, and technology consulting. Syberry’s expertise also includes cloud, ERP, SaaS, big data, blockchain, and IoT. Location: Austin, TX Founded: 2014 Major Clients: Bombardier, PayPal, Disney, Shell, Livestream Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Energy, Transportation Website: https://www.syberry.com/ 25. Vincit California Vincit California is a 400+ employee company engineering mobile apps, web portals, and embedded systems. Besides, Vincit offers UX/UI design. The company has seven offices around the world, which makes it specifically fit for global software development outsourcing. Location: Irvine, CA Founded: 2007 Major Clients: Nokia, Logitech, Yamaha, Roadtrip Nation, Sigora, Fastems Number of Employees: 250-999 Industry Presence: IT, Finance, Telecommunications Website: https://www.vincit.com/ 26. Napoleon IT UK-located DCSL offers outsourcing software development, software and hardware integration, IT consulting, and ongoing system support. The company’s other services include team augmentation, data migration, legacy software modernization, and others. Location: Reston, VA Founded: 2011 Major Clients: Unilever, Severstal, Russian Railways, Yamaha Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Retail, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Consumer Services Website: https://napoleonit.com/ 27. DCSL Software UK-located DCSL offers software development, software and hardware integration, IT consulting, and ongoing system support. The company’s other services include team augmentation, data migration, legacy software modernization, and others. Location: London, United Kingdom Founded: 1994 Major Clients: WaterAid, Mitsubishi, Hospify, Abbott, Lidl, Pearson Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Healthcare, Education, Manufacturing, Real Estate, IT Website: https://www.dcslsoftware.com/ 28. DockYard Since 2010, DockYard has been delivering product strategy, UX, digital design, software development, software support, and maintenance services. DockYard also provides QA and testing, team augmentation, and business analysis. Location: Boston, MA Founded: 2010 Major Clients: Netflix, Apple, NASDAQ, Zipcar, Fidelity Investments, Harvard University Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: IT, Transportation, Education Website: https://dockyard.com 29. SoftwareMill SoftwareMill helps its clients tackle IT challenges with outsourcing software development, data science, system integration, and analytics. The company delivers enterprise solutions, UI/UX design, mobile and web applications, and DevOps integration. Location: Warsaw, Poland Founded: 2009 Major Clients: Tipser, Knip, Flexys Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, IT, Energy, Ecommerce Website: https://softwaremill.com/ 30. Tivix Specializing in Agile development of cloud-connected web and mobile applications, Tivix is a US-based company housing 65+ experienced developers across six offices worldwide. The company’s expertise in outsourcing software development includes API, database, Django, Angular, and React development. Location: San Francisco, CA Founded: 2008 Major Clients: Apple, Tesla, SolarCity, Zoetis, VMware Number of Employees: 50-249 Industry Presence: Finance, IT, Consumer Services, Healthcare What Does the Future Hold for Outsourcing Software Development Companies? As time passes and businesses start looking for new technologies such as cognitive computing and RPA, some of these vendors can start lagging or cease delivering outsourcing at all. To keep the listing current and help you keep tabs on in this ever-changing market, we’ll continue monitoring the best outsourcing software companies. Stay tuned. ) (Find out more about Explority and our ranking methodology, click here and here

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Marvel kotlin sample application using android components architecture in a modular project Over years Android architecture evolved to support production-quality apps on any scale focused on helping developers to design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. For that Google has promoted in the last years as an official Android programming language impulse via a series of community-led events like and programmers Udacity courses . And it is not for less since the advantages are endless with respect to Java offering modern statically typed programming language that will boost your productivity and increase your developer happiness. Kotlin Kotlin/Everywhere Kotlin Bootcamp But first of all, if you want to check directly the project before continuing reading the introduction, you can do by accessing the following link: https://github.com/VMadalin/kotlin-sample-app The programming paradigm in android has seen a drastic turn with the introduction of a suite of libraries, tools, and guidance to help developers write high-quality apps easier. These components help you to follow best practices, free you from writing boilerplate code, and simplify complex tasks. That has ended up giving rise to what is known today as . Android Jetpack Modern Android Development are part of Jetpack and are a collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. Start with classes for managing your UI component lifecycle and handling data persistence. Android Architecture Components presented from and in , is a software design technique to so that each contains everything necessary to execute a specific functionality. Modular Android App Architecture Yigit Boyar Florina Muntenescu Google I/O’19 separate functionality into independent, interchangeable modules The below diagram demonstrates how would an application that uses this software design technique, although if you want to see more, I recommend the following . link Modularized app with multiple independent features what share or not the same libraries. Yet when it comes to combining all architecture puzzles together into simple client application it is difficult to find open-sourced app sample to follow. For this reason, I decided to build one based, apply and strictly complies with each of the following 5 points: A single-activity architecture, using the to manage fragment operations. Navigation component , part of Android Jetpack forgive to project a robust design, testable and maintainable. Android architecture components Pattern (MVVM) facilitating of development of the graphical user interface. Model-View-ViewModel separation design principles intended to make software designs more understandable, flexible and maintainable. S.O.L.I.D allows being developed features in isolation, independently from other features.App interaction Modular app architecture The project presents a modern, 2019 approach to application development using and latest . Android Kotlin tech-stack The goal of the project is to demonstrate best practices, provide a set of guidelines, modular application, scalable, maintainable and testable. This application may look simple, but it has all of these small details that will set the rock-solid foundation of the larger app suitable for bigger teams and long application lifecycle management. Application structure One of the key benefits of modularization architecture is supposed to be clear navigation throughout the app and source code. Looking at the root folder of the project, the following structure becomes clear: Interaction between modules Between the modules is established a dependency relationship that allows us to make an API request, access to DDBB or use a certain initialized library. Reusing the code in this way and avoiding duplicating. The below graph shows the app dependency between modules: depends on and indirectly depends on by . :app :core :features dynamic-features modules depend on , and some specific utils that will use. :features :commons :core, :app :library and only depends on possible utils on . :core :commons :libraries don’t have any dependency. :libraries App module The module is a , which is needed to create the . It is also responsible for initiating the , and other project global libraries, differentiating especially between different app environments. :app com.android.application App Bundle dependency graph play core Core module The module is a for serving network requests or accessing to the DDBB. Providing the data source for the many features that require it. :core com.android.library Features modules The module are a is essentially a gradle module which can be downloaded independently from the base application module. It can hold code and resources and include dependencies, just like any other gradle module. :features com.android.dynamic-feature Commons modules The modules are a only contains code and resources which are shared between feature modules. Reusing this way layouts, views, and other components in the different features modules, without the need to duplicate code. :commons com.android.library Libraries modules The modules are a , basically contains different utilities that can be used by the different modules. :libraries com.android.library Architecture components Ideally, ViewModels shouldn’t know anything about Android. This improves testability, leak safety and modularity. ViewModels have different scopes than activities or fragments. While a ViewModel is alive and running, an activity can be in any of its lifecycle states. Activities and fragments can be destroyed and created again while the ViewModel is unaware. Passing a reference of the View (activity or fragment) to the ViewModel is a serious risk. Let's assume the ViewModel requests data from the network and the data comes back sometime later. At that moment, the View reference might be destroyed or might be an old activity that is no longer visible, generating a memory leak and, possibly, a crash. The communication between the different layers follows the above diagram using the reactive paradigm, observing changes on components without the need of callbacks avoiding leaks and edge cases related to them. Configuration files With App Modularization we want to gain fine-grained dependency control but we also need to make sure we don’t end up maintaining multiple configuration files. For that we have the following common configuration files: commons/android-dynamic-feature.gradle.kts commons/android-library.gradle.kts commons/kotlin-library.gradle.kts The following is applied to every feature module with the following line: android-dynamic-feature.gradle.kts plugins {
    id( )
} "commons.android-dynamic-feature" Things to consider Of course, nothing is perfect, especially if it has recently come out. Here are some issues what I found during development: Navigation component don’t support multiple back-stack for the moment. Exist different but not officially solution to this. ( ) workarounds issue Robolectric isn’t compatible with modules for the moment. Test on throws the following exception. The same test but under , works correctly. ( ) dynamic-features dynamic-feature android-library issue java.lang.RuntimeException:java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: libraries not supported yet Roboelectric throw the following exception on testing apps with data-binding in module. ( ) issue java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:androidx/databinding/DataBinderMapperImpl with LiveData dependency throws exception when try to obtain value. ( ). The workaround is to use mockito for the moment. MockK issue java.lang.ClassCastException:java.lang.Object cannot be cast to java.lang.String Additional Resources - Projects This is project is a sample, to inspire you and should handle most of the common cases, but obviously not all. If you need to take a look at additional resources to find solutions for your project, visit these interesting projects: (by ) — official Android application from google IO 2019. iosched google (by ) — app which provides design news & inspiration, being an example of implementing material design. plaid android (by ) — a gardening app illustrating Android development best practices with Android Jetpack. sunflower android (by ) — collection of samples for Android Architecture Components. architecture-components-samples android (by ) — collection of samples to discuss and showcase different architectural tools and patterns for Android apps. architecture-sample android (by ) — an android boilerplate project using clean architecture android-clean-architecture-boilerplate bufferapp (by ) — android sample Clean Architecture app written in Kotlin. android-kotlin-clean-architecture sanogueralorenzo (by ) — easy to understand real-life example of a modularized Android app. modularization-example JeroenMols (by ) — app illustrating current Android Architecture state using Android development best practices. lego-catalog Eli-Fox (by ) — an app which attempts to use the latest cutting edge libraries and tools. tivi chrisbanes (by ) — app following best practices: Kotlin, coroutines, Clean Architecture, feature modules, tests, MVVM, static analysis. android-showcase igorwojda - Articles A collection of very interesting articles related to last android community tendencies and recommendations for starting to take in consideration for your current/next project: Transform monolith to modularization application Using the Navigation Component in a Modular World Dependency injection in a multi module project ViewModels and LiveData: Patterns + AntiPatterns Dynamic feature and regular modules using Dagger2 Android Architecture starring Kotlin Coroutines, Jetpack (MVVM, Room, Paging), Retrofit and Dagger 2 Gradle dependency management with Kotlin (buildSrc) Best coding practices, tips and more for Android - Libraries The open-source community create and maintains tons of awesome libraries making your job easier, giving the opportunity to use them in your developments. Here is a very important collection of them: — collection list of awesome Android UI/UX libraries. awesome-android-ui — a collection of awesome Kotlin related stuff. awesome-android-libraries — android developer portal with tools, libraries, and apps.- Best practices android-arsenal Avoid reinventing the wheel by following these guidelines: Google best practices Android development best practices - Summary There are certain benefits in writing or migrating to Modular App and using Architecture Components with them. Faster build times. Fine-grained dependency control. Improve reusability across other apps.Improves the ownership & the quality of the codebase. Stricter boundaries when compared to packages. Encourages Open Source of the newly created libraries. Makes Instant Apps & Dynamic Features possible (improving discoverability). Remember, keeping modules improves testability and eases future refactoring in case it needs to be shared between multiple user-facing features. Clean The aim of this article was to provide a brief overview of how to combining all architecture puzzles together into your current/next project.  If you have any questions, improvements, recommendations about modularisation and architecture components please add your response 🙂. The full open-source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/VMadalin/kotlin-sample-app Thanks for your time and reading. V.Madalin

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If you are running a business or just started your own startup, it’s important you keep an eye out on every minute detail. In case you are hiring designers, software developers, and/or a team for project management, tracking total working hours is probably what you should be doing. Provided that, it may not be your favorite responsibility of the day at work, it may frustrate you from time to time, but nowadays it is becoming useful for companies who work with project-based clients and bill by the hour, businesses that work with remote workforce and flexible working time, also those who want to increase productivity and altogether. Time tracking not only manages employee’s productivity but also monitors time spent on each individual task, and in the end, it helps to better optimize the future allocation of the workforce, resources, and budget in the company. It helps to show the clients in the form of evidence that what they are actually paying for. profitability What is even more important… Don’t believe us? Let’s take a closer look at one of our original cases at StaffTimer App: XYZ Company name: (*whispering* No we can not disclose the name of our client here, it’s confidential) More than 200 Employees: (Success!) Too many to handle? Total teams: Manual working processes, lack of flexibility, low productivity, high negative freedom and just so boring! Problem: DUH, time tracking! Solution: Ugh, please, don’t even ask. Challenges: Still, some companies aim for traditional professionalism rather than creativity. Whereas what we have noticed that workplace flexibility and absence of continuous micromanagement make every project a . fun-tivity Changing rigid office structures The standard workplace with restrictive rules, regulations, and code of conduct has always been considered an important part of the business world for many great years but now it’s all changing. Not that rules and regulations are disappearing rather companies are letting automation take care of it. So, the company XYZ that we talked about previously, was facing workplace flexibility issues (Thank god, they realized it sooner than later). Deploying a time tracking solution, gave them an opportunity to experience a flexible work schedule. Either they worked from 8 to 5 or 5 to 8, all of their hours and work were recorded and was maintained throughout the day. Easy does it! Time tracking provided an easily scalable solution that the company XYZ needed to succeed. transparency Increased work productivity by 100% The company showed that flexible work arrangements because of time tracking increased productivity levels & reduced both employers and employee’s stress by a great number because employees working flexibly with no micromanagement were more satisfied not only with their jobs but also with their lives, and better work-family balance. Since we are talking about work-life balance… Time tracking lets employees balance work and non-work responsibilities and provides employees with the much needed individual time and energy to unwind with fam-jam. How? Simply, track everything from the time spent on each task to overall productivity gain and easily estimate how long your task will take. Maximize your productivity and finish work even before the deadline. Meaning no spending extra time on projects outside working hours. GIF Source Tracking over-time Going back to company XYZ, one problem that time tracking solved for them was billing employee overtime accurately. Overtime spending was always ignored. But employers must correctly compensate employees for overtime hours, which is only fair and square. So the problem solved. What else? Time tracking increased employee’s potential billable hours while decreasing frustration. Managers could easily check project progress and profitability through real-time analysis, which allowed them to make future decisions accordingly. Through a centralized tool, finance and billing no longer needed to dive into piles of data in order to bill clients. The company benefitted greatly from minimizing non-billable hours. Did we tell you that time tracking lead company XYZ towards an increased efficiency, self-honesty and self-discipline? We have so many examples. Time for more? Gif Source ( : ) Disclaimer The Author Works at StaffTimerApp

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I have been using mostly Linux for many years now but, I just got a new Macbook Pro (2018). I had moderate previous experience with macOS before but I never had one of these machines as my main gear. After my initial “wow” moments with its screen and some “wtf” moments with its (lack of) ports, I started migrating my environment and searching for whatever I had to install to make this beast my own. Below is a step by step guide of this procedure which covers almost all my needs as a Java / Javascript Developer, although most parts can be valuable to most people as well. The missing package manager Before everything else, we should install Homebrew, the missing package manager for MacOS. Homebrew is mainly used for installing packages and command line utilities but, it can also be used to install normal non-open source applications.This will help a lot with the installation of all the remaining software and packages you will need and also maintaining them ( removing , cleaning dependencies etc ). To do that, open a terminal and run the below command. ≈/usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" Just follow some on screen instructions and after that is finished, move over to the good stuff. Terminal on steroids I use terminal a lot during my daily work so this was the first part I tried to upgrade. After some searching i found iTerm2 which covers all the features I was used to with my previous terminals ( tilix on Linux, cmder on Windows ). You can download it from its official or, use homebrew that we previously installed : page brew cask install iterm2 After the install there are countless things you can tinker on this app but with some more steps we will get a lot more. Next we should change the default unix shell of MacOS from Bash to Z shell. There are various pros to this move like better auto-completion and command history. Zsh comes installed on MacOS but it is better to install its latest version so, type this on your terminal. brew install zsh After that check your version : zsh — version at the time of writing this, it should be zsh 5.6.2 Next make zsh the default unix shell : chsh -s $(which zsh) Now we can either live with just the zsh or we can install a framework that will bring along many new plugins and themes for our shell. There are various choices here but the one I got in the end is . To install it just type : oh my zsh sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)" Now we can enable whichever plugin we want from the various that the or new ones found online. To enable the plugins you like, you have to edit your .zshrc file. framework brings along vi ~/.zshrc There you must find the plugins array and add the ones that you want. some notable mentions here, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions Lastly, we should install a preferred theme for iTerm2. Easiest solution would be which can be applied on most other apps/editors as well, although i went with . Just download the preferred one and apply it through the Preferences page of iTerm2. dracula Material Colors Brew up your Dev stack Now that we have our terminal set up, we can start installing all the required applications. Most of the work below can either be done through Homebrew or by downloading everything from their respective websites. There is one other thing that especially developers will need and that is the need to keep multiple versions of SDK’s installed on your machine. Homebrew by default installs the latest one and, for some packages there be some older versions, but that is not the normal case. For that firstly we will install another tool, the . Go on your terminal, type the below command and follow the on-screen instructions. might SDKMAN! $ curl -s “https://get.sdkman.io" | bash A list follows with some pretty basic installs that I, and most of us, will have to do. Java SDK sdk install java gradle sdk install gradle mysql brew install mysql mongodb brew install mongodb elasticsearch brew install elasticsearch Now, before we move over to actual applications, NodeJS is also required. For this we need the nvm tool to be able to install and change into multiple Node version. Either install the tool itself with : curl -o- | bash https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh or install the which will take care of easily upgrading nvm later on. After nvm’s installations just install (latest or specific versions) node by typing : zsh-nvm nvm install node which will install latest nodeJS and accompany npm. Now, let’s finish this up with some tools and required editors of choice. I needed the MySQL Workbench, Docker, GitKraken as my git GUI client, PostMan for API Testing, Android Studio for Android Development, Toolbox by Jetbrains which will handle WebStorm for Javascript projects and IntelliJ for Java projects. Furthermore I usually also use SublimeText or Visual Studio Code for simpler things. All the above can be installed with Homebrew so you could just type : brew cask install \mysqlworkbench \docker \gitkraken \postman \android-studio \jetbrains-toolbox \sublime-text \visual-studio-code After some time everything will be downloaded and installed, ready to use. Required Generics Lastly, I made a list of some generic applications that will be needed during daily use, based on personal choice. brew cask install \gimp \skype \viber \slack \google-chrome \microsoft-office \spotify \vlc \evernote \the-unarchiver After all these are done installing, I felt like my new and powerful MacBook is ready to replace my old Dell as my daily driver. Many of these would not apply to anyone but following brew / cask installs it should be a breeze to set up a new machine and have it ready to use in no time.

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