STRÖER | labs https://blog.stroeer-labs.com blog Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:44:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/favicon-1.ico STRÖER | labs https://blog.stroeer-labs.com 32 32 You have villas by the sea? And could I see them? https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/you-have-villas-by-the-sea-and-could-i-see-them/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/you-have-villas-by-the-sea-and-could-i-see-them/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 13:13:55 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=1284 Read More »You have villas by the sea? And could I see them?]]> written by Honza Rakowski December starts as usually and it’s here again. Many months of inclement weather ahead of us, with morning frost outside the window that turns into a slush in just a matter of hours. The sun, if it happens to appear, is just an aesthetic addition to the sky, with no sign of any thermal value. We are in for many months of cold and feeling blue. Or are we?

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/you-have-villas-by-the-sea-and-could-i-see-them/feed/ 0 The beauty of mob programming https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/the-beauty-of-mob-programming/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/the-beauty-of-mob-programming/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:48:52 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=1234 Read More »The beauty of mob programming]]> written by Lukáš Havrlant Is it better to have one book finished or two books halfway done? Some time ago, we ran into a similar problem at work. We were delivering just a few finished features and functions, while we had plenty of ones in progress. We could have dozens of new developing requests that were being developed in parallel and took quite a long time to finish. How to break this…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/the-beauty-of-mob-programming/feed/ 0 Running a brand campaign for the first time https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/running-a-brand-campaign-for-the-first-time/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/running-a-brand-campaign-for-the-first-time/#respond Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:40:35 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=1198 Read More »Running a brand campaign for the first time]]> written by Ingrid Lorková When a software development company, focused on internet advertising, decides to try out both online and offline advertising, it’s quite a challenge. As they say: the shoemaker’s children go barefoot. And when it comes to self-promotion, we have some reserves. In the following text, you will learn about these reserves and what we have gone through during…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/running-a-brand-campaign-for-the-first-time/feed/ 0 Ad management the world hasn’t seen https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/ad-management-the-world-hasnt-seen/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/ad-management-the-world-hasnt-seen/#respond Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:44:05 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=1121 Read More »Ad management the world hasn’t seen]]> written by Adam Trlica About 4 years ago we got an idea that we could use a new framework written in TypeScript. One of the main reasons was that we wanted to switch to Angular 2, which is written in TypeScript and we didn’t want to combine TypeScript and an old framework written in JavaScript. Moreover, we were aware that the old solution had some issues and because we like to learn from…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/ad-management-the-world-hasnt-seen/feed/ 0 How our services talk to each other https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-our-services-talk-to-each-other/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-our-services-talk-to-each-other/#respond Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:41:52 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=1058 Read More »How our services talk to each other]]> written by Lukáš Havrlant Communication is the foundation of a good relationship! We all know that. The same rule can be applied to our web services. The way they communicate with each other is the cornerstone of our architecture. That’s why we have used the REST API over HTTP as the main method of communication for a long time. We have quite a lot of experience with the REST API…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-our-services-talk-to-each-other/feed/ 0 Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part II. https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending-part-ii/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending-part-ii/#respond Fri, 28 May 2021 10:48:03 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=937 Read More »Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part II.]]> written by Honza Rakowski Continuation of Part I of the Article… The adaptation period began with new colleagues from Brno and Prague spending first 2 to 4 weeks in Opava at our main branch. That aspect helped us a lot in the early days of training. The only downside was that this requirement logically cost us some of the promising candidates. No wonder. If you want a Prague…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending-part-ii/feed/ 0 Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part I. https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending/#respond Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:16:46 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=914 Read More »Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part I.]]> written by Honza Rakowski About five years ago, following a great effort, we opened new offices in Prague and Brno with a big bang. After a few years, we closed them both in silence. In this blog entry, we would like to think about what we did not do quite so well, what we learned from it, and why it eventually did not work out in the end. For a long time, our company has not…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-our-offices-in-prague-and-brno-met-their-infamous-ending/feed/ 0 How we ran the A/B test for the first time https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-we-ran-the-a-b-test-for-the-first-time/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-we-ran-the-a-b-test-for-the-first-time/#respond Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:13:44 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=896 Read More »How we ran the A/B test for the first time]]> written by Lukáš Havrlant One of our newest services is the Private Marketplace. It is used for arranging so-called Private Deals in the online advertising business. For example, the sales agent of aktualne.cz will negotiate a deal with the car brand Škoda and offer them the possibility to buy mobile advertising on their website in the Auto category webpages for the price of 8 CZK per…

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/how-we-ran-the-a-b-test-for-the-first-time/feed/ 0 Why the user should be kept in the loop – the story of a cool-looking chart https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-the-user-should-be-kept-in-the-loop-the-story-of-a-cool-looking-chart/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-the-user-should-be-kept-in-the-loop-the-story-of-a-cool-looking-chart/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:27:59 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=863 Read More »Why the user should be kept in the loop – the story of a cool-looking chart]]> written by Václav Peter It was just one of those regular meetings with users. We had recently rolled out a new product and our users had had a chance to work with it for some time. This meeting was about their latest experiences, comments, and ideas for improvement which we were happy to gather. One of these ideas was the ability to see the statistics in the product.

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]]> https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/why-the-user-should-be-kept-in-the-loop-the-story-of-a-cool-looking-chart/feed/ 0 Why are we pessimistic about optimistic UI for web applications? https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/optimistic-ui/ https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/optimistic-ui/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://blog.stroeer-labs.com/?p=283 Read More »Why are we pessimistic about optimistic UI for web applications?]]> written by Lukáš Havrlant Just like everyone else, one of the problems that we face while developing web applications is the slowness of the website from the user’s point of view. Once upon a time, in the prehistoric times of the internet, we used to write websites using PHP, and user’s every action caused the entire page to be refreshed. The webpage itself seemed relatively unresponsive…

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