Hello everybody.Today I would like to share with all of you our Node.js application boilerplate.We use this boileplate every time we start a new project.This application sets up an Express.js server with authentication, registration, password recovery, all out of the box.Moreover, there is also implemented authentication/re...

ToDo Marriage is the newest DevInterface's app that allows you to organize the perfect wedding: it includes the creation of an online wedding list, it allows you to send invitations to your friends and family and to choose the seats for your guests at the restaurant's tables.Wedding is a wonderful event in the life of two people, ...

The rule for planning a Sprint with Scrum effectively is having cristal clear the goals: they will guide the developers to the definition of the possible tasks and the best ways to realize them.In the last articles about Scrum i talked you about its efficiency as a framework for the implementation of the Agile methodology and about roles in a Scrum team. I've also explained that with Sprint we mean a variable period of time during which the Scrum Team develop a "par...

Employees are the first customers of a company: the Balanced Scorecard helps you improve their performances thanks to their approval and their continuous training. This is the learning and growth perspective.We've arrived to talk about the learning and growth perspective of a Balanced Scorecard.This point of view, like the others seen till now,...

In traditional contracts applied to software development the risk is that between the supplier and the customer the exchange value isn't fair: Agile contracts change the cards in play.A few months ago in this article I was talking about how apps that you use avery day are made. In it I also I listed some software development methods that are now considered almost obsolete, explaining generally how the Agile methodology, the one we use at DevInterface, works. This methodology, in comparison...

The balanced scorecard is a tool that can help you make the most out of the resources of your company to optimize internal processes.Few Weeks ago we introduced the BSC and later we focused in more detail on the importance of relationships with customers for a company. Today we will instead see how, among others processes for optimize production and product innovation (ie those that your customers don't see), BSC is crucial for your business.The most important aspect of this pers...

Today we're going to see why the customer's perspective is so important in the implementation of the BSC.A few weeks ago I told you what the BSC or balanced scorecard is, and we saw together why this approach was considered revolutionary: when it was created, more than 20 years ago, companies (almost all) focused only on the economic return to determin...

The Balanced Scorecard is an effective method to monitor business performances, allowing you to monitor and improve your business' internal processes.There are definitely times when you wonder how is proceeding the life cycle of your company: a company goes through good times as well as bad ones, and I'm sure that you have the foresight to recognize them immediately. The problem is that, in both cases, it is difficult to foresee and understand the caus...

Last week I’ve migrated a Django application from version 1.04 to 1.6.Among the many methods deprecated, starting from version 1.5 all generic views based on functions have been eliminated (they were already deprecated in the previous release (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/generic-views-migration/)In my application, the generic view was used in the views.py file in this way:123456789101112131415161718@cache_...

I recently had to implement a view with the classic search form with two select dependent on each other. My aim was to leave the page as clean as possible and make the code that loads the options for the daughter dropdown reusable.Suppose, therefore, to have two models, SpecializationType and Specialization, defined as follows:123456789101112131415161718192...