Not Invented Here Syndrome is the tendency of organizations to reject suitable existing solutions in favor of internally-developed ones. The result of this is often wasting hours on reinventing the wheel. In many projects, one the first important architectural decision is the API design. Given the gravity of this decision, countless meetings and discussions are held over the topic of what convention and formatting to adopt and almost always there are as many opinions as there are developers. What if there existed a ready-made solution?

Thinking about your startup? Just read it, already!

So far we've been introduced with a couple of preprocessors like Less, SASS, Stylus and a lot of tools and methods for composing, organizing and managing stylesheets for our modern web applications. React, as a powerful JS library of contemporary front-end development also had its own particular need for more capable styling options for its reusable components. So what is the best approach for styling React components? Regarding this matter, there is no acknowledged common approach or best practice yet but you can find couple of ways to do it. 

Each day when we get up we come across dozens or even hundreds of products, services or brands which compete against each other for our attention. When we just open our eyes we are bombarded with company logotypes, colourful and beautiful packages or sophisticated shapes. Very often we even don’t realize how many commercial stimuli come act on us. Think – how many logotypes can you notice just after getting up? A logo on a toothpaste, toothbrush, shower gel, shampoo, hair dryer, t-shirt...and this is only the beginning!

As we're approaching the end of the year 2017, we may think about an upcoming year. Many of us will look back on the current year and think about all the things they wanted to do, but never managed to. Than some of us will label this as "New Year's resolutions" and will plan to fulfil them in 2018. We look at them with hope and determination. Most of them will never be done anyway or will be abandoned shortly, because thinking about a task and writing it down is usually not enough. We encounter similar situation in software development, when we impulsively add a new task to the scope as a #TODO.

Implementing three different solutions to practical programming problem

Few days ago Tobias Pfeiffer came to Visuality and gave a really great talk about clean code. While listening to him I realised, how important it is to us and how it influences our clients. Code quality has always been a big thing in Visuality so its always nice to hear somebody else confirm what we do everyday here:)

Christmas makes us think of friends. And in Visuality friends make us think of our garden, where in warmer months we use to invite them for merry gatherings. Alas it was winter, and our garden stood cold and desolate. So our IoT club decided to light up the atmosphere and invite people to the garden anyway - virtually.

Introduction and CHAPTER 0 of the startup series.

We're building something here, detective. We're building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.

I want to share with you some thoughts about our approach towards startup projects and workshops we organize with their founders whenever we have a chance.

This is a introduction to data structures and time complexity analysis

Here's how I've made the first step into introducing Elixir and Phoenix to our Rails development team at VIsuality.

How to read, process and write binary files

Introduction to new series of posts about core programming

Techniques to motivate yourself

Introduction

Elevator Pitch Competition by Visuality and Digital Knights

The beginning of revolution in a sector witnessed by Visuality

'Coup d'état' of newcomer's perception

What happens at NASA Space Apps Challenge, goes further than NASA Space Apps Challenge.

Last week we had an amazing opportunity to visit Berlin. This time it was to attend StartupCamp again. How was it this year? Read this post to figure out for yourself;)

Visuality’s Investment Day 5 recent open-source projects.

For small projects which do not have CI integration, RSpec tests can be run just before deployment.

The 2015 comes to an end and It needs some brief summary as the new one - even greater - 2016 comes.

The highest quality and affordable software development for Scandinavian countries is in Poland.

Visuality was started 8 years ago in some small town outside of...

Brief description of problem that we had with conflicting javascript libraries and how we fixed it.

Few words about front-end focused conference, that takes place in Warsaw's Praga . Or how to mix disco with emails and good UX !

Sesame NodeJS Based Office Door Opener with using Raspberry Pi and Slack A door opener integrated with our #Slack bot using #RaspberryPi and #nodejs. Cool!

A lot of friends ask me for advice on choosing a good development house. Here you will find my thoughts on the subject:)

A piece of Silicon Valley in Gdynia. Meet the wolves.

This time we came to Berlin to learn some more about SaaS. Find out what we discovered.

Are you considering career at Visuality? Here is some advice to you.

Last friday (6th march 2015) we attended Innoviation Nest SaaS Meetup in Cracow. This was our second SaaS meetup and we were truly amazed this time too.

Since our company is growing very fast and we are starting our own startup we decided it is a good thing to visit Berlin.

You may want to support features of other gem in yours, but only when gem user actually uses that other gem in his project. Here's how to do it with examples from textris gem.

One of our front-end developers, Adam, showed me this tool that supposedly could make writing HTML code faster. I had no idea...

Recently, I've had to hook text messaging into one of our apps. After a quick review of existing solutions, I've found nothing that would meet some of my needs, so I've decided to create a new gem for it.