“Nothing is comparable to the new life that a reflective person experiences when he observes a new country. Thought I am still always myself, I believe I have changed to the very narrow of my bones” – Goethe The opportunity more…
Have I found the right recipe? More questions than Answers? Early this morning I received a beautiful Mother’s Day card from my dear daughters. What a lovely surprise I thought. I treasure these moments, and save the masterpieces to recall more…
Beginnings: I want to start the story by presenting myself. I am Peter and I’ve been a tester for about three years. I want to point out that successful testing runs through my family as my father was a professional more…
I am new in a leadership role, that was also the purpose of my visit to a leadership workshop with Tatiana. She is the one who shows people how to become THE leader. I could not have chosen anybody better more…
As I write this blog, Christmas is approaching, and the end of year festivities are underway. I am catching up with my annual correspondence writing Christmas Cards to my friends and acquaintances with whom I like to keep in touch. more…
Not long ago I had my car stolen from a multi-storey car park. I reported the theft to the police who were quite sympathetic. I enquired about the action which would be taken to apprehend the thieves, recognising that the more…
I’ve finished my university studies last year, so this was the first year when I was working on a full-time contract. I have never thought that I would say this, but I honestly miss going to school and studying. That’s more…
During job interviews or discussions with fellow testers I very often hear that they’re passionate testers and they all are working on themselves and trying to learn new things and improve in testing area. It is always great to meet more…
Can these two sit together comfortably in the workplace? “Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller In a conversation once with my grandfather, he recalled his early days when he first started work in more…
One day, when I became tired of not having a job and having my parents pay my rent, I decided to find a job. The most experience I had from school was with Java, so I was searching for companies more…
Putting back into the community what the community has given to us is most rewarding Many residents of Vienna are guests here in Austria. We have received a warm welcome from the City of Vienna and its local community which more…
There are many challenges that tester faces every day. Someone could even say that being tester is lifetime adventure! The questions that true tester ask himself are: When to stop? When is the application ready to be shipped out? Have more…
As you already read in our previous article, our persistence data was based on database with support SQL as in many companies (specifically Oracle and Teradata). Unfortunately, this approach became gradually obsolete. We also pointed out that Solr was our more…
The challenge of balancing my Working Life and my Social Life with my Family Life Working mums are busier than ever in our fast moving working environment. We are trying to juggle the important duties and responsibilities of our working more…
How big consultancy companies create opportunities for us. It happens quite often that new opportunity and challenge for some is missed opportunity, a pile of problems and a loss of a customer for others. In world of IT projects, it more…
„I am going to participate in Data Hackathon in London.” “OMG, are you a hacker?!” was the common answer I got after I told someone that me and Torsten were attending London Data Festival in June 24-26, 2016. Data festival more…
As a Lego fanatic, I often see things from the perspective of an intricate construction of Lego building bricks. Simplity’s logo was no exception. Using my vast resources of Lego pieces at home, I took the opportunity to set myself the challenge of building the blue and orange circle with Lego bricks. The more…
As you have already read in the last article, several weeks ago we started to think about new technology for user interface of our products. Why? In Simplity, we want to keep up with new technologies and JavaScript is gaining more…
As our last post said, the following articles will discuss about our huge code refactoring. So let‘s start with the first part of this serial. Our persistence layer consisted of MyBatis framework on top of 2 databases, Oracle and Teradata. more…
One and a half year of hard coding. One and a half year of work… Should we reconsider the way we are developing our tool? Can we change the architecture of Accurity, the whole software solution? Yes, we have to, more…
A few days back we attended the Spring IO 2016 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Almost 500 developers from around the world discovered the latest developments in the de-facto industry standard Spring Framework. For us, the Simplity Products Team, four of more…
You can try hard to be famous by your skills. You can be lucky, otherwise you have at least a good feeling about a well done job. Simplity is different. You can easily start your star career at a company’s more…
“What are you doing now? Where are you working?” is a common question from someone you have not meet for quite a while. “… I work for a small international company … we develop data governance software which is then more…
How hands-on experience affects quality of final model. Once a business user came to a BIM team member with a query regarding certain attribute. They wanted to know where the attribute came from because it is not possible to source more…
“Where’s your office?” I asked on my first interview in a cafe in Vienna. “We don´t have any. Our consultants work exclusively at our clients’ offices,” smiled Petr Mahdalíček, the managing director of the company. But I was not so more…
Let’s have a magazine example. As the analyst for Glossary, I am often asked to explain what this product is for and how it works. We have a lot of materials – text on the web, brochures, user guide, presentations, more…
Many people think that you have to work for a large international company if you want to travel abroad in your job a lot. Well, it does not have to be your case if you decide to join Simplity. Neither more…
We can claim that almost the whole technology and data world is based on natural principles. We can mention neural networks based on our central neural system or artificial intelligence…etc. But what about data quality? I have been thinking about more…
Today everybody is speaking about data, how it is important, how it changes the whole world, how its processing in companies increases profits and efficiency…etc. But is it useful? Don´t we rely on it too much? Does it really help? more…
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